The Letters of Sylvia Plath, Vol 2: 1956–1963

“Plath adapts her manner to her audience. ‘Who is Sylvia?’ She contains multitudes—with at least as many personae as there are correspondents. The Plath of Letters Home is vastly different from the Plath of the Beuscher letters, who is different again from the Plath writing to the Catholic priest Michael Carey (and sending him, of all poems, ‘Mary’s Song’!). She’s all these personae and more.” Read more...

Sylvia Plath Books

Tim Kendall, Literary Scholar