Plath – The Woman is Perfected
At the time of her death in 1963, aged thirty, Sylvia Plath had published just one collection of poetry, to muted response,…
At the time of her death in 1963, aged thirty, Sylvia Plath had published just one collection of poetry, to muted response,…
‘Because I could not stop for Death –/He kindly stopped for me,’ wrote Emily Dickinson. Well, Plath stopped for him. And as…
‘One Sunday afternoon in March 1922, a school friend casually asked me if I wrote poetry. I, who had never written a…
First to Kipling and the women, of whom, in his personal life, there were virtually none. He married his wife Carrie, Caroline…
What riches American Poetry affords us Bishop, Berryman, Hart Crane, Dickinson, Eliot, Frost, Longfellow, Lowell, Millay, Moore, Plath, Pound, Poe, Wallace Stevens,…
‘When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a…
Sisterhood, whether Pre-Raphaelite or not, is a challenging state, one which is quite different from that of brotherhood. It is never more…
‘If a powerful and benevolent spirit has shaped the destiny of this world we can better discover that destiny from the words…
‘It is an art of the nerves, this art of Laforgue, and it is what all art would tend towards if we…
How do you possess a poem? Well, ‘same as for love’. Pay attention to it. Listen to it. It will speak to you…