Chapters in a Mythology: the Poetry of Sylvia Plath
Harper & Row, 1976. First edition. Hardcover. First edition. Fine fresh copy in near fine dust jacket the only flaw being a tiny vloed tear bottom edge front panel. Hardcover. 303 pp with bibliography and index. in this full-scale critical study, Judith Kroll sees Sylvia Plath's poetry as going much deepr that the autobiographical surface meaning often ascribed to it and in fact comprising an entire mythology (influenced strongly by Robert Graves' "White Goddess"--the ultimate purpose of which is to bring the poet into a kind of spiritual transcendence that resolves a number of intolerable tensions in her life. Fine / near fine. Item #E31813
ISBN: 9780060124571
Price: $29.95