tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-688274121226963086.post156454684982243550..comments2023-10-22T23:29:48.012+13:00Comments on O Audacious Book: literary crushesUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-688274121226963086.post-77380110956697608352008-09-03T21:16:00.000+12:002008-09-03T21:16:00.000+12:00The annoying thing about Birthday Letters - one of...The annoying thing about Birthday Letters - one of Hughes's lesser books, I think, though still fascinating - is the way he writes as if Plath's death was fate working its inexorable course. I lost count of the number of variations on "Little did I know..." as yet another remembered episode presages her turning on the gas.<BR/><BR/>Tim UppertonAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-688274121226963086.post-66832130905263352112008-08-16T10:03:00.000+12:002008-08-16T10:03:00.000+12:00Thanks, Pamela, fascinating stuff. Have posted on ...Thanks, Pamela, fascinating stuff. Have posted on it on the blog. <BR/><BR/>And Gondal-girl, the Sylvia Plath play was Edge with American actress Angelica Torn as Sylvia. It was powerful intense stuff and, if I remember rightly, was all on the last day of Plath's life.Mary McCallumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07482261103185786111noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-688274121226963086.post-49426404786081732402008-08-13T18:18:00.000+12:002008-08-13T18:18:00.000+12:00Hi again Mary, just to let you know there's a bit ...Hi again Mary, just to let you know there's a bit more info on 'Slightly Framous' (my literary executor blog) about the connection between Sylvia Plath's death and Janet Frame's inspiration to write Towards Another Summer.<BR/>Cheers<BR/>PamelaPamela Gordonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13581369727017085580noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-688274121226963086.post-67631209519555816832008-08-13T13:24:00.000+12:002008-08-13T13:24:00.000+12:00Goodness. I am thrilled with Denis' metaphor, deig...Goodness. I am thrilled with Denis' metaphor, deighted to find Gondal-girl and Paradoxical Cat and I share a literary crush, and have to say I agree re. the Johnny Depp crush, Vanda, although it is highly frivolous of you to bring it up here (-:<BR/><BR/>Denis, maybe I over-used the words 'dark' and 'anguished' in describing Plath's work. I don't actually believe Plath's poetry is excessively tormented - given her brilliance, her mental state, and the struggle she had as a woman writer at that time. It is tormented, of course, but understandably so. But yes, a shipwreck and a lighthouse. Thank you for that. Lovely. And I must read On Chesil Beach now.<BR/><BR/>Paradoxical Cat, I must also re-read Towards Another Summer which I loved deeply. It will resonate differently now I know about the link with Plath's death. I can imagine it being a terrible blow for Frame. Thank you for sharing it here, PC.Mary McCallumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07482261103185786111noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-688274121226963086.post-33793995805750221342008-08-13T11:29:00.000+12:002008-08-13T11:29:00.000+12:00Sylvia Plath was absolutely an early 'literary cru...Sylvia Plath was absolutely an early 'literary crush' for me too! <BR/>You'll be interested to know that Janet Frame started writing her novel "Towards Another Summer" the week that Sylvia killed herself, and partly in response to that death. I don't think Janet knew Sylvia but she was also living in London then (February 1963), and was deeply affected by Plath's suicide and she deals with some of the relevant themes in her novel. There's even a poem in the novel (page 48-49) that is an elegy for Plath, and full of Plath symbolism.The Paradoxical Cathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10100658773584057280noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-688274121226963086.post-68199565276852771072008-08-12T09:31:00.000+12:002008-08-12T09:31:00.000+12:00Does having a crush on Johnny Depp playing JM Barr...Does having a crush on Johnny Depp playing JM Barrie in Finding Neverland count?Vanda Symonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09956034768397598056noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-688274121226963086.post-61827970395918684692008-08-11T22:08:00.000+12:002008-08-11T22:08:00.000+12:00Hi Mary, glad to see that my post has got you thin...Hi Mary, glad to see that my post has got you thinking, I will have to post my rest - however it seems that we share some crushes - Sylvia for sure. Was the play you saw Three Women? Her play for voices, was in a production ages ago myself. Her words are magic, though I no longer go back and look at them with that frustrated 20 something eyes....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-688274121226963086.post-34361956326892158562008-08-11T18:39:00.000+12:002008-08-11T18:39:00.000+12:00The lives of Plath and Hughes are emblematic becau...The lives of Plath and Hughes are emblematic because their marriage perches on the cusp of the great change in sexual relations that came in the mid-1960s: see also Ian McEwan's brilliant novella On Chesil Beach, which is set roughly about the time that Plath killed herself. Sure, her poetry seems excessively tormented now, but her shipwreck is our lighthouse. We wouldn't see as<BR/>well without her.Denis Welchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15181168768539829054noreply@blogger.com