' Winter Trees' Reviewed by Joyce Carol Oates.Pygmalion to her own Galatea, willing herself into shape, struggling against the inherited outlines of her predecessors." In these poems, written between 1960 and late 1961 and antedating 'Ariel,' the poet plays is by no means Sylvia Plath's best, it forms a chapter of her poetic life. It is a fine novel, as bitter and remorseless "'The Bell Jar' is a novel about the events of Sylvia Plath's 20th year: about how she tried to die, and how they stuck her together with glue. Impact, and then wonders where the poet summoned up the resources to be so unsparing and so open-eyed about herself." "The strength of feeling and the intensity that play about these posthumously published poems, the relentless honesty that permeates them are so great that at first meeting the reader shrinks from their Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath in 1956, the year they were married. With News and Reviews From the Archives of The New York Times
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