18 DECEMBER 1971, page 14

Sylvia Plath And

Roger Scru ton Crossing the Water Sylvia Plath (Faber £1.25) Winter Trees Sylvia Plath (Faber El) It is seldom useful to judge a poet's writing in terms of his character, but......

The Savage God

breathe or Achoo. . . "). One of the finest features of her later style — the use of multiple metaphors — is here seen at its most effective. At first the poet is a foot, poor......

Anatomy Of Despair

Barbara Hardy The Savage God: Study of Suicide A. Alvarez (Weidenfeld and Nicolson £3.25) I once gave a talk on Sylvia Plath after which someone asked me if I was a voyeur. An......