Arrayed in Shining Scales
Patricia Lockwood: Solving Sylvia Plath, 10 July 2025
The Collected Prose of Sylvia Plath
by Sylvia Plath, edited by Peter K. Steinberg.
Faber, 812 pp., £35, September 2024,978 0 571 37764 0 Show More
by Sylvia Plath, edited by Peter K. Steinberg.
Faber, 812 pp., £35, September 2024,
“... to meet people, make connections; to enter into a literary life. She reached out to writers like Doris Lessing, who rebuffed her, and wrote a fan letter to Stevie Smith, which is excerpted on the back of Smith’s magnificent All the Poems. ‘I am a desperate Stevie Smith addict,’ the blurb reads. Then you open up the collection to find ... ”
