Plath, Sylvia

A twentieth-century American writer whose collections of poetry, including the posthumously published Ariel , strongly influenced women writers of the 1960s. Her semi-autobiographical novel , The Bell Jar, details her alienation and suicidal tendencies and presaged her own death that same year.

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There are also essays on Jean Rys, Sylvia Plath, the Brontës, and Henry Roth.

And the unhip multitudes it contains include Disney, Salinger, and Sylvia Plath.

I wanted something that connects Walt Disney and J.D. Salinger and Buddy Holly and Sylvia Plath to what we now know as Twee.

Next week, the drafts for one of Sylvia Plath's last poems will go to auction.

Like a good professor she offers a slew of guest lectures on C.S. Lewis, Sylvia Plath, and even lyrics from The Flaming Lips.

April 17, 2024axolotl

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