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“What Plath most often wrestles with is a sense that, as the metaphor of a bell jar suggests, she’s seeing the world through glass. She’s trapped. She’s constrained. She knows that there’s something greater within her, but it can’t break through. She’s struggling; she’s puzzled. To borrow one of her titles as a metaphor, she’s writing ‘stillborn’ poems.” Read more...
Tim Kendall, Literary Scholar
Our most recommended books
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The Aeneid (Robert Fitzgerald translation)
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William Wordsworth: The Major Works
by Stephen Gill (editor) -
The Divine Comedy: Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso
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Paradise Lost
by John Milton -
The Odyssey
by Homer and translated by Emily Wilson -
Staying Alive
by Neil Astley (editor)
