Sylvia Plath's Lyrical Responses to Works of Art: A Portrait of the Artist(s)

No doubt, people who have an artistic bent often realize their full creative potential in more than one field of the arts. Musicians are not only musicians, painters are not only painters and poets are not just poets. Throughout her short life, Sylvia Plath was similarly interested in a variety of pursuits, including drawing, for which she had a quite re­markable gift. This book attempts to trace her development as both poet and artist through a close examination of her letters, journal entries,…