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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... writing this book. At Viking Penguin, I would like to thank Christine Pevitt, Kathryn Court, Paul Slovak, Lydia Weaver, Kate ... write. Without her, this book would not exist. —P. A. Introduction to the Da Capo Edition In the spring of.
... writing this book. At Viking Penguin, I would like to thank Christine Pevitt, Kathryn Court, Paul Slovak, Lydia Weaver, Kate ... write. Without her, this book would not exist. —P. A. Introduction to the Da Capo Edition In the spring of.
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... writing of this book, I read in full the two major Plath archives, those housed at Smith College and those at Indiana ... write her biography. The reason is both complex and simple. Because Plath died without leaving a will, Ted Hughes ...
... writing of this book, I read in full the two major Plath archives, those housed at Smith College and those at Indiana ... write her biography. The reason is both complex and simple. Because Plath died without leaving a will, Ted Hughes ...
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... writing and devote her full attention both to their care and to myriad household duties. What was more, these days ... write. And in the weeks she had followed this schedule, she had experienced breathtaking results-almost a poem a day ...
... writing and devote her full attention both to their care and to myriad household duties. What was more, these days ... write. And in the weeks she had followed this schedule, she had experienced breathtaking results-almost a poem a day ...
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... writing she managed each morning, she took a poem through numerous rewrites, occasionally as many as ten. But when a ... write on an entirely new level. “I am a genius of a writer; I have it in me,” she told her mother in a letter later ...
... writing she managed each morning, she took a poem through numerous rewrites, occasionally as many as ten. But when a ... write on an entirely new level. “I am a genius of a writer; I have it in me,” she told her mother in a letter later ...
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... an uncle in whose food-and-liquor store he clerked, and altering his name from “Platt” to “Plath.” He audited English classes at a grammar school until, after one year, he could read, write, and speak 15~ OTTO AND AURELIA.
... an uncle in whose food-and-liquor store he clerked, and altering his name from “Platt” to “Plath.” He audited English classes at a grammar school until, after one year, he could read, write, and speak 15~ OTTO AND AURELIA.
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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...