14 NOVEMBER 1981, page 20

Formal Bleeding

Michael Hulse Collected Poems Sylvia Plath (Faber pp. 351, £10, £4.25). T am writing the best poems of my life,' I wrote Sylvia Plath on 16 October, 1962, four months before her......

Sweet Revenge

A. N. Wilson Lost and Found Julian Gloag (Secker and Warburg pp. 206, £5.95) A while ago, a novel called The Cement Garden achieved a succes de scandale when it was alleged that......