Mad Girl's Love Song: Sylvia Plath and Life Before Ted

Mad Girl's Love Song: Sylvia Plath and Life Before Ted
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A new biography of Sylvia Plath, a literary icon who continues to haunt, fascinate, and enthrall even now, fifty years after her death

On February 25 , 1956, twenty-three-year-old Sylvia Plath walked into a party and immediately spotted Ted Hughes. This encounterâ€”now one of the most famous in all of literary historyâ€”was recorded by Plath in her journal, where she described Hughes as a â€œbig, dark, hunky boy.â€ Sylvia viewed Ted as something of a colossus, and to this day his enormous shadow has obscured her life and work. The sensational aspects of the Plath-Hughes relationship have dominated the cultural landscape to such an extent that their story has taken on the resonance of a modern myth.

Before she met Ted, Plath had lived a complex, creative, and disturbing life. Her father had died when she was only eight; she had gone out with literally hundreds of men, had been unofficially engaged, had tried to commit suicide, and had written more than two hundred poems. Mad Girlâ€™s Love Song chronicles these early years, traces the sources of her mental instability, and examines how a range of personal, economic, and societal factorsâ€”the real disquieting musesâ€” conspired against her.

Drawing on exclusive interviews with friends and lovers who have never spoken openly about Plath before and using previously unavailable archives and papers, this is the first book to focus on the early life of the twentieth centuryâ€™s most popular and enduring female poet. Mad Girlâ€™s Love Song reclaims Sylvia Plath from the tangle of emotions associated with her relationship with Ted Hughes and reveals the origins of her unsettled and unsettling voice.
Country USA
Brand Scribner Book Company
Manufacturer Scribner
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2013-02-05
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781476710310

Country	USA
Brand	Scribner Book Company
Manufacturer	Scribner
Binding	Hardcover
ReleaseDate	2013-02-05
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781476710310

Mad Girl's Love Song: Sylvia Plath and Life Before Ted

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