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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 the leading interpreters of the poetry of antiquity at work today, Sarah Ruden has been in love with the poetry of Sylvia Plath since she was a teenager. Now she offers a profound reconsideration of Plath's genius through deep readings of 6 of her most memorable poems. Ruden argues that Plath was a consumate mythmaker, in much the sense that the ancient Greeks were, her poems not only relating and reimagining experience, but helping us to map the very nature of experience itself. This aspect of Plath's achievement has too often been masked not only by the details of her life, her ill-starred marriage to Ted Hughes, and her suicide at the age of thirty, but also by the polarized opinions of her fans and her detractors. Here Ruden presents six of Plath's greatest poems--
--with accompanying close readings that reveal their astonishing beauty and rhetorical power. Ruden argues persuasively for Plath's "enshrinement, on purely literary merit, in the cool and politically agnostic mainstream of literary greatness."
- "Mushrooms"
- "You're"
- "The Babysitters"
- "The Applicant"
- "Ariel"
- "Edge"
--with accompanying close readings that reveal their astonishing beauty and rhetorical power. Ruden argues persuasively for Plath's "enshrinement, on purely literary merit, in the cool and politically agnostic mainstream of literary greatness."
I Am the Arrow: The Life and Art of Sylvia Plath in Six Poems
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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
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.
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.
Description
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
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.
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.
ISBN
9781598538137
Publisher
Publication Date
March 25, 2025
Binding
Hardcover, Hardback
Item Condition
New
Language
English
Pages
128
Keywords
Literary Criticism | Poetry; Poetry | Women Authors; Literary Criticism | Women Authors; Poetry | American | General
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