I Am the Arrow: The Life and Art of Sylvia Plath in Six Poems by Sarah RudenSylvia Plath

I Am the Arrow: The Life and Art of Sylvia Plath in Six Poems

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I Am the Arrow: The Life and Art of Sylvia Plath in Six Poems

Library of America

I Am the Arrow: The Life and Art of Sylvia Plath in Six Poems

by Sarah Ruden & Sylvia Plath

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Acclaimed translator Sarah Ruden shares a fresh, myth-busting reading of Sylvia Plath's poems, revealing the full range and towering ambition of a great American poet.

One of our leading interpreters of ancient literature, acclaimed translator Sarah Ruden (the Aeneid) has long had a passion for Sylvia Plath's poetry. In this profound reconsideration of Plath's genius, Ruden argues that Plath is more than a consummate mythmaker; the poet herself takes on the role of the classical hero: striving, suffering, descending to an underworld that threatens meaninglessness and despair, and returning to speak the previously unspoken. For the first time, a writer and a woman becomes that hero.

For Ruden, this achievement, like the deep learning and driving ambition that fueled it, has been overshadowed by the sensational and tragic details of Plath's life, especially her ill-starred marriage to British poet Ted Hughes and her suicide at the age of thirty. Ruden offers a much-needed corrective through close readings of 6 poems

  • "Mushrooms"
  • "You're"
  • "The Babysitters"
  • "The Applicant"
  • "Ariel"
  • "Edge"

that reveal how Plath persisted in the face of illness to produce works of disquieting beauty and uncanny power.

Devoted fans will find many new insights here, while readers looking to discover Plath's poetry for the first time will find no better introduction to her work.
Book Details
Publisher:
Library of America
ISBN:
9781598538137
Binding:
Hardcover
Pages:
128
Authors:
Sarah Ruden, Sylvia Plath
Published Date:
2025-03-25
Language:
English
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About Sylvia Plath

Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) was born in Boston, Massachusetts. She graduated summa cum laude from Smith College and held a Fulbright Scholarship at Newnham College, Cambridge, where she met Ted Hughes. Her only collection published in her lifetime, The Colossus and Other Poems (Heinemann, 1960), was followed posthumously by Ariel (1965). The Collected Poems (Harper and Row, 1981), edited by Hughes, received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1982, awarded posthumously. She also wrote the autobiographical novel The Bell Jar (1963).

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