Book contents
- Sylvia Plath in Context
- Sylvia Plath in Context
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Chronology
- Abbreviations and Textual Note
- Key Archives
- Introduction
- Part I Literary Contexts
- Part II Literary Technique and Influence
- Part III Cultural Contexts
- Part IV Sexual and Gender Contexts
- Part V Political and Religious Contexts
- Part VI Biographical Contexts
- Part VII Plath and Place
- Chapter 28 ‘A Certain Minor Light’: Plath in Brontë Country
- Chapter 29 Plath in London
- Chapter 30 Plath in Devon: Growing Words Out of Isolation
- Part VIII The Creative Afterlife
- Bibliography
- Index
Chapter 28 - ‘A Certain Minor Light’: Plath in Brontë Country
from Part VII - Plath and Place
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 August 2019
- Sylvia Plath in Context
- Sylvia Plath in Context
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Chronology
- Abbreviations and Textual Note
- Key Archives
- Introduction
- Part I Literary Contexts
- Part II Literary Technique and Influence
- Part III Cultural Contexts
- Part IV Sexual and Gender Contexts
- Part V Political and Religious Contexts
- Part VI Biographical Contexts
- Part VII Plath and Place
- Chapter 28 ‘A Certain Minor Light’: Plath in Brontë Country
- Chapter 29 Plath in London
- Chapter 30 Plath in Devon: Growing Words Out of Isolation
- Part VIII The Creative Afterlife
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
The poet and academic Sarah Corbett reveals Plath’s profound response to Yorkshire’s powerful and often threatening natural and human landscape, as well as to the writings of Emily Brontë and Ted Hughes. In a handful of poems, Plath can be heard sounding out a Hughesian strain of voice against the ghosts and rumoured angels of her own emergent poetic imagination. These West Yorkshire interludes show Plath making use of an ambivalent energy in the landscape to mirror her self/psyche, a technique that can be seen in many of the Ariel poems, and the beginnings of a working out of the struggle between masculine and feminine voices that was to underpin much of her mature work.
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- Sylvia Plath in Context , pp. 297 - 305Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019