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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...
...BELL JAR by Sylvia Plath. 296 pages. Harper...
...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...
...fine cast of acting singers, headed by Janet Baker, Peter Pears, Sylvia Fisher and Benjamin Luxon in the title role, could not quite breathe passionate life into dialogue that often consisted of abstract arguments for war or peace. Britten, moreover, chose not to set to music the one scene that might have brought the story to a dramatic focus-a furious confrontation in which Owen is first berated then disinherited by his old-warrior grandfather...
...order to be able to finish your talks with her." Yet one feels he fully deserved Violet Hunt, the intellectual succubus for whom he broke up his first marriage in 1909 and who became the model for one of fiction's most ferocious females, Tietjens' wife Sylvia. Violet's real-life amours included pursuit by-or of -both H.G. Wells and Henry James, as well as six pages' worth of other...