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Free Article Sylvia Plath: A Biography.
Magazine article from: National Review; 3/18/1988
Free Article Subject Sylvia.(Comment)(poet Sylvia Plath)(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: Poetry; 3/1/2004
Free Article Dragon goes to bed with princess: F. Scott Fitzgerald's influence on Sylvia Plath.(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Notes on Contemporary Literature; 9/1/2007

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Sylvia Plath: A Biography.
Magazine article from: National Review; 3/18/1988; ; 700+ words ; Sylvia Plath: A Biography THERE IS a desperate need for a good biography of Sylvia Plath. Plath's Letters Home (1975), edited...Electra on Azalea Path, is really about Sylvia on Aurelia Plath. The main events of Miss Plath's life... Read more
Subject Sylvia.(Comment)(poet Sylvia Plath)(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: Poetry; 3/1/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...Republic, Stephen Spender reviewed Sylvia Plath's posthumous collection, Ariel...wide open. The dead woman was Sylvia Plath, 30, an American poet whose marriage...Christine Jeff's glossy biopic, Sylvia, in which Plath, played by Gwyneth Paltrow, achieved... Read more
Dragon goes to bed with princess: F. Scott Fitzgerald's influence on Sylvia Plath.(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Notes on Contemporary Literature; 9/1/2007; ; 700+ words ; No doubt Sylvia Plath is the last person who'd wish...historical and literary contexts. Plath's sonnet Ennui (I) (published...Great Gatsby. In an essay Plath wrote in 1955 while an undergraduate...shield of a courtly knight (2), Plath surmises in the same essay...Princess Daisy: A Description ... Read more
Hemphill, Stephanie. Your own, Sylvia; a verse portrait of Sylvia Plath.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Kliatt; 3/1/2007; ; 281 words ; HEMPHILL, Stephanie. Your own, Sylvia; a verse portrait of Sylvia Plath. Random House, Knopf. 272p. e2007. 978-0-375-837...an author who decides to write the story of Sylvia Plath's life based on real events but fictionalized... Read more
Trapped in language: aspects of ambiguity and intertextuality in selected poetry and prose by Sylvia Plath.(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: Style; 3/22/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...a major feature in the work of Sylvia Plath. Critics may avoid biographical...Criticism of the American poet Sylvia Plath offers a good case in point. Her...omnipresent stylistic feature in Sylvia Plath's work and intrinsically linked... Read more
Reading (and) the late poems of Sylvia Plath.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 1/1/2005; ; 700+ words ; Reading (and) the Late Poems of Sylvia Plath by Paul Mitchell. This article offers a reading of Sylvia Plath's late poems by utilizing the psycholinguistic...Jacques Derrida) (1) Many of Sylvia Plath's last poems are characterized... Read more
Sylvia Plath: The Shaping of Shadows.(Review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 7/1/2000; ; 542 words ; Sylvia Plath: The Shaping of Shadows. By AL STRANGEWAYS. Cranbury, NJ: Fairleigh...stated, Al Strangeways seeks to emphasize the public element of Plath's poetry, to invoke De Quincey as Plath's Bloomian precursor, and suggest that Plath should be viewed... Read more
Sylvia Plath; The bell jar and poems.(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 11/1/2008; 93 words ; 9780761429623 Sylvia Plath; The bell jar and poems. Reiff, Raychel...series, outlines the life and works of Sylvia Plath. Reiff (English, U. of Wisconsin-Superior) writes first on Plath's life and times followed by synopses... Read more
Daniel Craig: many consider Sylvia Plath's suicide one of poetry's greatest losses. In a new film, this actor brings Plath's husband, the complex man behind the tragedy, to life.(Movie Breakthrough)(Brief Article)(Interview)
Magazine article from: Interview; 11/1/2003; ; 208 words ; ...century, Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath had a relationship...competition, culminating in Plath's suicide In 1963. In the new film Sylvia, about their marriage...VP: The role that Plath's marriage to Hughes...attacks on him. Is Sylvia one of them? DC: I... Read more
Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath--a marriage examined.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Contemporary Review; 2/1/2005; ; 629 words ; ...what would have been Sylvia Plath's sixty-sixth birthday...had published since Plath's death', and she...theme in his post-Sylvian work of 'how marriages...following upon 'Plath's angry departure...Hughes, lying there in Sylvia's bed, could hear... Read more

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