Rough Magic: A Biography Of Sylvia PathHachette Books, 17/03/2009 - 440 páginas Since her suicide at age thirty, Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) has been celebrated for her impeccable and ruthless poetry, which excels at describing the most extreme reaches of Plath's consciousness and passions. Her work includes the autobiographical novel, The Bell Jar, and such collections as The Collosus, Ariel, and the Pulitzer Prize -- winning Collected Poems. Based on exclusive interviews and extensive archival research, Rough Magic probes the events of Plath's life -- including her turbulent marriage to the English poet Ted Hughes -- in a biography that stands alone in its compassionate view of this fiercely talented, deeply troubled artist. |
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... interview several key figures not interviewed by other biographers, and he gives us information not available elsewhere.” —Emily Leider, San Francisco Chronicle, author of Becoming Mae West “[A] solid biography. . . . Alexander has done ...
... interview several key figures not interviewed by other biographers, and he gives us information not available elsewhere.” —Emily Leider, San Francisco Chronicle, author of Becoming Mae West “[A] solid biography. . . . Alexander has done ...
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... interviews in November 1985 would be the first among many to occur over the next five years. In all, I met with Mrs. Plath for at least 25 interview sessions. It was not unusual for these episodes to end with Mrs. Plath in tears. Over ...
... interviews in November 1985 would be the first among many to occur over the next five years. In all, I met with Mrs. Plath for at least 25 interview sessions. It was not unusual for these episodes to end with Mrs. Plath in tears. Over ...
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... interviewing people about Plath, I also talked with O1wyn on numerous occasions, mostly in her home in London but once in New York when she came to the States on a trip with Ted. On that trip I also met with Ted, who would not talk ...
... interviewing people about Plath, I also talked with O1wyn on numerous occasions, mostly in her home in London but once in New York when she came to the States on a trip with Ted. On that trip I also met with Ted, who would not talk ...
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... interviews with people who knew Plath, a number of whom had never before spoken openly about her. Though I have quoted from these interviews, I have been sparing in my use of Plath's own words-the words that made me want to write her ...
... interviews with people who knew Plath, a number of whom had never before spoken openly about her. Though I have quoted from these interviews, I have been sparing in my use of Plath's own words-the words that made me want to write her ...
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... interview. “I would like to ask if you would agree to meet with me,” I wrote, pointing out that I would soon be in North Tawton where he still lives in Court Green, the house he and Plath bought in the early nineteen-sixties. “The ...
... interview. “I would like to ask if you would agree to meet with me,” I wrote, pointing out that I would soon be in North Tawton where he still lives in Court Green, the house he and Plath bought in the early nineteen-sixties. “The ...
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afternoon Alvarez American Ariel Assia Atlantic Monthly August Aurelia Plath Bell jar Boston Cambridge Christian Science Monitor Christmas College Colossus Court Green Crockett death decided depression Dick early Eddie editor Elizabeth England Faber father February felt field figure final finally find finished first Fitzroy Road five flat Frieda friends girls Gordon Heptonstall Horder hospital Hugheses interview January journal Knopf later literary living marriage married Mary Ellen Chase month morning never night novel October Olive Higgins Prouty Olwyn Otto Otto’s Peter Davison Plath and Hughes Plath wrote poems poet poetry Prouty Prouty’s published Review Saint Pancras Sassoon September Smith Smith College story student suicide summer supper Sylvia and Ted Sylvia Plath Sylvia wrote Ted and Sylvia Ted Hughes Ted’s told took trip unpublished letters wanted week weekend Wellesley Winthrop woman write Yaddo York Yorker
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Página vii - Some heavenly music, (which even now I do,) To work mine end upon their senses, that This airy charm is for, I'll break my staff, Bury it certain fathoms in the earth, And, deeper than did ever plummet sound, I'll drown my book.
Página 27 - Sand-strewn caverns, cool and deep, Where the winds are all asleep; Where the spent lights quiver and gleam; Where the salt weed sways in the stream; Where the sea-beasts...
Página 306 - I think my poems come immediately out of the sensuous and emotional experiences I have, but I must say I cannot sympathize with these cries from the heart that are informed by nothing except a needle or a knife or whatever it is. I believe that one should be able to control and manipulate experiences, even the most terrifying — like madness, being tortured, this kind of experience — and one should be able to manipulate these experiences with an informed and intelligent mind.
Página 44 - Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade, But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange. Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell : Hark! now I hear them, — ding-dong, bell.
Página 355 - The last of these contained entries for several months, and I destroyed it because I did not want her children to have to read it (in those days I regarded forgetfulness as an essential part of survival). The other disappeared.
Página 138 - I adored and despised him, and I probably wished many times that he were dead. When he obliged me and died, I imagined that I had killed him.
Página 366 - Americans at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin.
Página 306 - ... intelligent mind. I think that personal experience is very important, but certainly it shouldn't be a kind of shut-box and mirror-looking, narcissistic experience. I believe it should be relevant, and relevant to the larger things, the bigger things such as Hiroshima and Dachau...