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American Isis: The Life and Art of Sylvia Plath
American Isis The Life and Art of Sylvia Plath Author:Carl Rollyson On the fiftieth anniversary of her death, a startling new vision of Plath?the first to�draw�from the recently-opened Ted Hughes archiveThe life and work of Sylvia Plath has taken on the proportions of myth.�Educated at Smith, she had an epically�conflict-filled relationship with her mother, Aurelia.�She then married�the poet Ted Hughes and plung... more »ed into the�sturm and drang�of�married life in the full glare of the world of English and American letters.�Her poems were�fought over, rejected,�accepted and, ultimately, embraced by readers everywhere.�Dead at thirty,�she committed�suicide by putting her head in an oven�while her children slept.�Her poetry collection�titled�Ariel became a modern classic. Her novel�The Bell Jar�has a fixed place on student reading lists.�American Isis will be the first Plath bio benefitting from the new Ted Hughes archive at the British Library which includes�forty one letters�between Plath and Hughes as well as a host of unpublished papers.�The Sylvia Plath Carl Rollyson brings to us in American Isis is no shrinking Violet overshadowed by Ted Hughes, she is a modern day Isis, a powerful force that embraced high and low culture to establish herself� in the literary firmament.« less
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