Sylvia Plath: New Views on the Poetry

by Gary Lane

Book Overview

Originally published in 1979. Sylvia Plath is one of the most controversial poets of our time. For some readers, she is the symbol of women oppressed. For others, she is the triumphant victim of her own intensity--the poet pursuing sensation to the ultimate uncertainty, death. For still others, she is a doomed innocent whose sensibilities were too acute for the coarseness of our world. The new essays of this edited collection (with a single exception,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421435306
• ISBN13: 9781421435305
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 282 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"