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
- Chapter 1 Plath and the American Poetry Scene
- Chapter 2 The Dominant Trends in British Poetry of the 1950s and Early 1960s
- Chapter 3 Plath and the Classics
- Chapter 4 Plath and the Radio Drama
- Chapter 5 ‘Sincerely Yours’: Plath and The New Yorker
- 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
- Part VIII The Creative Afterlife
- Bibliography
- Index
Chapter 3 - Plath and the Classics
from Part I - Literary Contexts
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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
- Chapter 1 Plath and the American Poetry Scene
- Chapter 2 The Dominant Trends in British Poetry of the 1950s and Early 1960s
- Chapter 3 Plath and the Classics
- Chapter 4 Plath and the Radio Drama
- Chapter 5 ‘Sincerely Yours’: Plath and The New Yorker
- 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
- Part VIII The Creative Afterlife
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Holly Ranger establishes a relatively neglected but crucial context for Plath’s work, illuminating Plath’s frequent classical allusions and her sophisticated intertextual dialogue with literary history. Among the many poems that Ranger helps us to see anew are the bee poems, shot through as they are with references to Virgil. All the while, Ranger reveals Plath’s ambivalence towards her classical project, her contradictory impulses to reject this canon, yet the impossibility of her ignoring it.
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- Sylvia Plath in Context , pp. 32 - 41Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019