Aird, Eileen, — Sylvia Plath" her life amd work.

NY, Perennial Library Harper, (1975). 1st ed. Fair PB. Traditionally Plath's work never received recognition until after her death. Owner name on fore-edge, book store stamp. on introduction page Individual study of a poet whose whose reputation has contineud to grow since her tragic suicide in1963. This book provides an illuminating critically perceptive introduction to Plath's poetry and other writings The approach is both biographical and critical throughout and will provide the key to a full understanding of her often highly personal preoccupations of her poems, her novel The Bell Jar, and her radio play Three Women. Traces the relationship bwetween her work and that of other poets who influenced it, such as" Robert Lowell, Ann Sexton Theodore Roethke in particular her husband Ted Hughes.