Word: plath
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...currently enlivening the borough with a four-month British Theater Season. With a flare of trumpets, a skirl of bagpipes and a welcoming speech from London-born, Brooklyn-bred New York City Mayor Abraham Beame, the Royal Shakespeare Company inaugurated the season with Richard II and Sylvia Plath...
...SYLVIA PLATH. Romantic cults seem to spring up rapidly round poets who die young. An element of thanatophilia enters into the worship of such poets. It is somehow felt that they were purified by dying and spared the physical and moral corruption to which ordinary mortals are subject...
Think of Shelley, who died by drowning and whose heart was snatched from the funeral pyre by his fellow romantic, Trelawney. Or of Dylan Thomas, a sacrificial votary of drink (Olympian draughts, of course). Since the winter day in 1963 when Sylvia Plath turned on the gas and laid her head in her kitchen oven, she has become a goddess of the thanatophiliacs...
...three-month season by three top British repertory companies. Playgoers will be able to see the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Young Vic and the Actors Company hi productions ranging from Shakespeare's Richard II through Chekhov's Wood Demon to a semidramatized reading of Sylvia Plath's poems...
...point to his repeating Pound's advice: to remember the old virtues of economy, force and precision; not to be afraid to make readers think; to remember that poetry should be at least as well-written as prose. And Marc Leib's review of a posthumous collection of Sylvia Plath's play and poems has some points to make about what's wrong with the tendencies of contemporary poetry-writers. He complains about the endless, pointless description that bad writers insist on producing and after clearing Plath of the usually valid suspicions brought to confessional poetry, Leib makes a hopeful...