Word: collossus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bleak preoccupation with madness and death, they fall far short of the technical virtuosity and the intensity of her later work. More intriguing than the poems are the essays which accompany them. Elizabeth Aldrich's analysis of "The Eye-Mote" (which appeared in Miss Plath's first volume, The Collossus) takes the poem apart and puts it back together in the finest style of New Criticism and, incidentally, gives a reasonably good perspective on Sylvia Plath's over-all artistic ambitions. In "The Documentary Sublime" Stuart Davis offers a total assessment of her intentions and accomplishments, presenting a critical outlook...
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