To this day, Sylvia Plath's writings continue to inspire and provoke. Her only published novel, The Bell Jar, remains a classic of American literature, and The Colossus (1960), Ariel (1965), Crossing the Water (1971), Winter Trees (1971), and The Collected Poems (1981) have placed her among this century's essential American poets.
Sylvia Plath was born on October 27, 1932, the first child of Aurelia and Otto Plath. When Sylvia was eight years old, her father died--an event that would haunt her remaining years--and the family moved to the college town of Wellesley. By high school, Plath's talents were firmly established; in fact, her first published poem had appeared when she was eight. In 1950, she entered Smith College, where she excelled academically and continued to write; and in 1951 she won Mademoiselle magazine's fiction contest. Her experiences during the summer of 1953--as a guest editor at Mademoiselle in New York City and in deepening depression back home--provided the basis for The Bell Jar. Near that summer's end, Plath nearly succeeded in killing herself. After therapy and electroshock, however, she resumed her academic and literary endeavors. Plath graduated from Smith in 1955 and, as a Fulbright Scholar, entered Newnham College, in Cambridge, England, where she met the British poet, Ted Hughes. They were married a year later. After a two-year tenure on the Smith College faculty and a brief stint in Boston, Plath and Hughes returned to England, where their two children were born.
Plath had been successful in placing poems in several prestigious magazines, but suffered repeated rejection in her attempts to place a first book. The Colossus appeared in England, however, in the fall of 1960, and the publisher, William Heinemann, also bought her first novel. By June 1962, she had begun the poems that eventually appeared in Ariel. Later that year, separated from Hughes, Plath immersed herself in caring for her children, completing The Bell Jar, and writing poems at a breathtaking pace.
A few days before Christmas 1962, she moved with the children to a London flat. By the time The Bell Jar was published under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas, in early 1963, she was in desperate circumstances. Her marriage was over, she and her children were ill, and the winter was the coldest in a century. Early on the morning of February 11, Plath turned on the cooking gas and killed herself.
Plath was posthumously awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 1982 for her Collected Poems.
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我又尝试了一次, 我十年 尝试一次—— 我是一个笑容可掬的女人, 我仅仅三十岁, 我像猫一样有九条性命, 这是第三条 每十年就要消灭 一个废物! 诗歌《拉撒路夫人》(Lady Lazarus)完成后不久,西尔维娅•普拉斯在伦敦寓所里进行了她的第四次尝试。这次,死亡接纳了...
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评分一口气读完了《钟形罩》,我已想不起来上一次如此酣畅淋漓的阅读是在何时。虽然最近在《le conte de Monte Cristo》,《Sans famille》,《Nouvelles choisies de Maupassant》之间不断轮流转换,却是对于短语及句子结构的兴趣大于作品本身,并无多大的阅读乐趣可言。 如若...
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Esther Greenwood is brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, and successful, but slowly going under—maybe for the last time. In her acclaimed and enduring masterwork, Sylvia Plath brilliantly draws the reader into Esther's breakdown with such intensity that her insanity becomes palpably real, even rational—as accessible an experience as going to the movies. A deep penetration into the darkest and most harrowing corners of the human psyche, The Bell Jar is an extraordinary accomplishment and a haunting American classic.
whining, touchy, gloomy, jumps a lot, simply not my type of read. 《钟形罩》
评分unexpectedly hilarious and upbeat comming from Plath," A time of darkness, despair, disillusion-so black only as the inferno of the human mind can be-symbolic death, and numb shock- then the painful agony of slow rebirth and psychic regeneration"--remind me of that poem of hers: Lady Lazarus.
评分unexpectedly hilarious and upbeat comming from Plath," A time of darkness, despair, disillusion-so black only as the inferno of the human mind can be-symbolic death, and numb shock- then the painful agony of slow rebirth and psychic regeneration"--remind me of that poem of hers: Lady Lazarus.
评分超好看 根本停不下来 就是很能懂
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