I’m an intelligence
Joanna Biggs: Sylvia Plath at 86, 20 December 2018
The Letters of Sylvia Plath, Vol. I: 1940-56
edited by Peter Steinberg and Karen Kukil.
Faber, 1388 pp., £35, September 2017,978 0 571 32899 4 Show More
edited by Peter Steinberg and Karen Kukil.
Faber, 1388 pp., £35, September 2017,
The Letters of Sylvia Plath, Vol. II: 1956-63
edited by Peter Steinberg and Karen Kukil.
Faber, 1025 pp., £35, September 2018,978 0 571 33920 4 Show More
edited by Peter Steinberg and Karen Kukil.
Faber, 1025 pp., £35, September 2018,
“... Moore would say that she is ‘too unrelenting’ in The Colossus, her first book of poems; Robert Lowell would put the same thought another way by saying that in Ariel she was playing ‘Russian Roulette with six cartridges in the cylinder’. I also remember feeling that I was liking something that it was a cliché for me to like. I thought she was ... ”