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Unpublished correspondence from the poet to her former therapist records allegation of beating and says that he told her he wished she was dead 
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Classic Appreciation: On Sylvia Plath’s remarkable poetry collection 'Ariel' - Essay by Dan Chiasson
Nobody brought a house to life the way Plath did. Ariel, despite the tragedy that attends it, is a book with much joy between its covers.
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Dan Chiasson has been contributing poems to the magazine since 2000 and reviews since 2007. He teaches at Wellesley College. His poetry collections include "Where’s the Moon, There’s the Moon” and, most recently, “Bicentennial.”
Sylvia Plath was one of the most dynamic and admired poets of the 20th century. By the time she took her life at the age of 30, Plath already had a following in the literary community. In the ensuing years her work attracted the attention of a multitude of readers, who saw in her singular verse an attempt to catalogue despair, violent emotion, and obsession with death. In the New York Times Book Review, Joyce Carol Oates described Plath as “one of the most celebrated and controversial of postwar poets writing in English.” Intensely autobiographical, Plath’s poems explore her own mental anguish, her troubled marriage to fellow poet Ted Hughes, her unresolved conflicts with her parents, and her own vision of herself. On the World Socialist Web site, Margaret Rees observed, “Whether Plath wrote about nature, or about the social restrictions on individuals, she stripped away the polite veneer. She let her writing express elemental forces and primeval fears. In doing so, she laid bare the contradictions that tore apart appearance and hinted at some of the tensions hovering just beneath the surface of the American way of life in the post war period.” Oates put it more simply when she wrote that Plath’s best-known poems, “many of them written during the final, turbulent weeks of her life, read as if they’ve been chiseled, with a fine surgical instrument, out of arctic ice.”
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The creation of life and the masterful merging of metaphor and reality.
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The author of this essay-appreciation is Katherine Robinson. She earned an MFA from The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University, and she lives and teaches in Baltimore. Her poetry and fiction have appeared in The Kenyon Review, The Hudson Review, Poet Lore, The Common and elsewhere. Her critical interests include the influence of mythology and bardic poetry.
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Back in April, the Guardian dropped an apparent literary bombshell—new letters had been discovered from the poet Sylvia Plath, alleging horrific physical abuse
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Emily Van Duyne is assistant professor of Writing at Stockton University. A poet, essayist, & critic, her work has appeared, or is forthcoming, in the Chronicle of Higher Education, So To Speak, Diagram, ROAR, and many others. She is at work on a memoir, and a book about Sylvia Plath. She lives in New Jersey with her family.
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