A Poetics on Edge: . The Poetry and Prose of Sylvia Plath: A study of Sylvia Plath's poetic and poetological developments

This study takes a close look at the language of Sylvia Plath’s poetry and prose in terms of how the poetic language works rather than why she wrote as she did. A detailed analysis of her poems, her short stories and her only novel, The Bell Jar, traces Sylvia Plath’s development of a poetics of her own – from monological poems to dialogic prose – based on her own frequent remarks on the writing process in her essays, letters and journals. Sylvia Plath was a writer often …