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Article: Sylvia Plath.
- Article from:
- The New Leader
- Article date:
- November 2, 1987
- Author:
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Sylvia Plath
SYLVIA PLATH wanted badly to embody the spirit of her times, however contradictory: the feminine ideal of Ladies' Home Journal; the Adlai Stevenson committed liberal; the bohemian rebel against society. Unable to reconcile herself to life, she committed suicide in 1962, at 30. From then on, the angry poems she wrote before her death have attracted readers so strongly that her writings have received the kind of reverent, hagiographical attention once accorded to the works of T.S. Eliot. Different eras have studied her as a mirror of their own concerns. In the 1960s, she was considered a revolutionary artist, crushed by a conventional establishment ...
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