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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... students. To demonstrate man's illogic, the professor would skin a dead rat, slice meat from its bones, sauté the meat in a pan, and, as his students gazed on in horror, proceed to eat the fried meat piece by piece. “Rat meat might be ...
... students. To demonstrate man's illogic, the professor would skin a dead rat, slice meat from its bones, sauté the meat in a pan, and, as his students gazed on in horror, proceed to eat the fried meat piece by piece. “Rat meat might be ...
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... students adored him. At German Club picnics some students' main activity was flirting with Professor Plath. “Oh, Mr. Plath, what kind of bug is this?" a coed would coo as she dangled an insect before him. To which Plath would respond by ...
... students adored him. At German Club picnics some students' main activity was flirting with Professor Plath. “Oh, Mr. Plath, what kind of bug is this?" a coed would coo as she dangled an insect before him. To which Plath would respond by ...
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... Student Government Board, the German Club (for which she served as both vice-president and president), and Sivad ... student in her class, and therefore salutator, from Winthrop High School in 1924—Aurelia graduated as the top-ranking ...
... Student Government Board, the German Club (for which she served as both vice-president and president), and Sivad ... student in her class, and therefore salutator, from Winthrop High School in 1924—Aurelia graduated as the top-ranking ...
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... student, Plath was well on his way towards establishing a national reputation in his field. Not that he had achieved this professional plateau without suffering. Because of the transient nature of his employment, and because of the ...
... student, Plath was well on his way towards establishing a national reputation in his field. Not that he had achieved this professional plateau without suffering. Because of the transient nature of his employment, and because of the ...
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... student shoved Aurelia to the ground from the door of the school bus while the driver and her fellow students turned their heads the other way. Chauvinism notwithstanding, Aurelia had an almost idyllic youth on Point Shirley. An ...
... student shoved Aurelia to the ground from the door of the school bus while the driver and her fellow students turned their heads the other way. Chauvinism notwithstanding, Aurelia had an almost idyllic youth on Point Shirley. An ...
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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...