5/28/2023 0 Comments Sylvia plath linda wagner martin![]() ![]() The themes in Plath's poetry and prose that Wagner-Martin examines include "Plath's Hospital Writing", "Plath's Poems about Women", as well as "Recalling the Bell Jar" and "Lifting the Bell Jar", amongst others. ![]() There was no other aim for Sylvia Plath." It is with this in mind that Wagner-Martin writes one of the best critical books on Plath. ![]() In the Preface, she states that Plath's life was "genuinely a literary life. A good critic can convince the reader that their approach to the subject is the right way, despite any amount of knowledge one may possess about the said subject. Discouraged by the number of mediocre books I've read recently about Plath (particularly poems about Plath), I thought I'd give a critical work a read, just to reestablish a connection with good writing about Plath. What struck me in 1999 when it first came out was the fact that it discussed unpublished materials, be they letters, poems, prose, or other. Linda Wagner Martin's Sylvia Plath: A Literary Life (Macmillan Press, 1999 2nd. Having read so much drivel about Plath this year, I decided to turn back the clock a bit. ![]()
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