from Part II - Literary Technique and Influence
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 August 2019
Taking a 1962 fan letter that Plath wrote to the poet Stevie Smith three months before her suicide, Noreen Masud elucidates a key context out of which Plath’s work emerged. Drawing on The Bell Jar and ranging through her poetry, Masud argues that Plath owes much to Smith’s gendered perspective, dramatic monologues, and ambivalent but darkly comic engagement with the stifling nature of suburbia.
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