The Journals of Sylvia Plath

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BBC Two – Ted Hughes: Stronger Than Death". BBC. October 10, 2015. Archived from the original on December 17, 2016. Both Lowell and Sexton encouraged Plath to write from her experience and she did so. She openly discussed her depression with Lowell and her suicide attempts with Sexton, who led her to write from a more female perspective. Plath began to consider herself as a more serious, focused poet and short story writer. [5] At this time Plath and Hughes first met the poet W.S. Merwin, who admired their work and was to remain a lifelong friend. [26] Plath resumed psychoanalytic treatment in December, working with Ruth Beuscher. [5] Chalcot Square, near Primrose Hill in London, Plath and Hughes' home from 1959 Plath, Sylvia, The Journals of Sylvia Plath, edited by Ted Hughes and Frances McCullough, Ballantine (New York, NY), 1983.Plath's letters were published in 1975, edited and selected by her mother Aurelia Plath. The collection Letters Home: Correspondence 1950–1963 came out partly in response to the strong public reaction to the publication of The Bell Jar in America. [36] Plath began keeping a diary from the age of 11 and continued doing so until her suicide. Her adult diaries, starting from her first year at Smith College in 1950, were published in 1982 as The Journals of Sylvia Plath, edited by Frances McCullough, with Ted Hughes as consulting editor. In 1982, when Smith College acquired Plath's remaining journals, Hughes sealed two of them until February 11, 2013, the 50th anniversary of Plath's death. [76] Heinz, Drue (Spring 1995). "Ted Hughes, The Art of Poetry No. 71". The Paris Review. Spring 1995 (134): 98, cited in Ferretter 2009, p.15 Helle, Anita, ed. (2007). The Unraveling Archive: Essays on Sylvia Plath. Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan Press. ISBN 978-0-472-06927-9.

Middlebrook, Diane. (2003). Her Husband: Hughes and Plath– a Marriage. New York: Viking. ISBN 0-670-03187-9 She obtained a Fulbright Scholarship to study at Newnham College, one of the two women-only colleges of the University of Cambridge in England, where she continued actively writing poetry and publishing her work in the student newspaper Varsity. At Newnham, she studied with Dorothea Krook, whom she held in high regard. [23] She spent her first year winter and spring holidays traveling around Europe. [5] Career and marriage [ edit ] Plath's stay at McLean Hospital inspired her novel The Bell Jar The final section of the journals contains entries from the summer of 1958 through the fall of 1959, when Plath lived in Boston. The last real entry is dated November 15, 1959, from Yaddo, prior to Plath and Hughes’s return to England to await the birth of their first child. The last years of her life are represented by a piece titled “The Inmate,” written between February 27 and March 6, 1961, when Plath was in the hospital having her appendix removed, and by a series of sketches of her Devon neighbors dated February through July, 1962. Plath was clinically depressed for most of her adult life, and was treated multiple times with early versions of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). [3] She ended her own life in 1963. is reviewed between 08.30 to 16.30 Monday to Friday. We're experiencing a high volume of enquiries so it may take usHe poured me out a glass, and I drank it. He opened the door, and I stumbled blindly downstairs, past Maybelle and Robert, the little colored children, who called my name in the corrupted way kids have of pronouncing things. Past Mary Lou, their mother, who stood there, a silent, dark presence. Story: woman with poet husband who writes about love, passion – she, after glow of vanity and joy, finds out he isn’t writing about her (as her friends think) but about Dream Woman Muse.” – Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath Steinberg, Peter K. (2004). Sylvia Plath. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Chelsea House. ISBN 0-7910-7843-4. You have one,” a variation of which becomes a line in “Lady Lazarus.” In one entry, Plath discusses one use of the moon as an image. She elucidates clearly the progression of the metaphor of moon as plant bulb, demonstrating an ability to analyze her own work, and also a keen eye for imagistic progression, a progression that culminates in such poems as “Fever 103°” and “Cut.” Brain, Tracy (2001), The Other Sylvia Plath, Longman Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature, Singapore: Longman Publishing Group, pp.118–120, ISBN 0-582-32730-X