The Death and Life of Sylvia Plath.

From: The Economist (US) | Date: August 10, 1991 | Copyright information

T.S. ELIOT once said that the heart of a job was "a continual surrender of himself as he is at the moment to something which is more valuable". What matters to the writer-and reader-is not the "poetic feelings" or romantic experiences that went into the work, but the finished poem.

With Sylvia Plath, alas, the process has been reversed. Since her suicide in 1963 she has become a kind of cult figure, and most people see her poetry as a commentary on her personality and the lurid circumstances of her death. The situation has been complicated by biographies offering sharply ...

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