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...Lowell. "Eliot talked about a world breaking apart at the seams from a stance reflecting personal control," explains Harvard professor Roger Rosenblatt. "What people today like most about Lowell is that he seems to be coming apart at the seams himself." But they also have a Virgin Mary-Sylvia Plath, a gifted American girl who wrote despairing verse until, aged 30, she put her head into a gas oven and died. Her poetry, taut with passion, has been aptly described as "the longest suicide note ever written...
...Sylvia Plath is already well known for her last poems, which are brilliant songs of self-destruction, the ne plus ultra of confessional verse. The Bell Jar is a marvelously unself-conscious confessional novel dashed off before such documents were in vogue. Now, however, it is as if the likes of Joan Didion have merely been sweeping the stage for Sylvia's ghostly comeback. Like the Lady Lazarus of her poem, she is a virtuoso of death. As she wrote: "You could say I have a call...
...Bell Jar, Plath...