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Wagner-Martin, Linda.

Sylvia Plath--a literary life / Linda Wagner-Martin.

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : MacMillan ; New York : St. Martin's Press, 1999.

xii, 171 pages ; 23 cm

"Linda Wagner-Martin's emphasis in this study is the way Sylvia Plath made herself into a writer. In keeping with the critic's early groundbreaking work on American poet William Carlos Williams, she here studies elements of Plath's work with dedication to discussions of style and effect. Close attention to Plath's reading and her apprenticeship writing in both fiction and poetry provides information helpful to understanding the late work of the 1960s. The book concludes with a section assessing Sylvia Plath's current standing."--Jacket.

Literary lives

Literary lives (New York, N.Y.)

Plath, Sylvia.

Poets, American -- 20th century -- Biography.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-166) and index.

Writing life -- Creating lives -- Creating the persona of the self -- Recalling the Bell jar -- Lifting the Bell jar -- Plath's hospital writing -- Defining health -- Journey toward Ariel -- Plath's poems about women -- Plath's triumphant woman poems -- Getting rid of daddy -- Sylvia Plath, the poet and her writing life.

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