February 7, 2003
Calling the Young Sylvia Back
There is Eliot. And Pound. Shakespeare. Whitman. There are Cather, Wharton, and Rich. And then there is Sylvia. Or sometimes Sylvia-and-Ted, or even Sylvia-and-Ted's-marriage, which by now is as much a character as Sylvia in one of literature's longest-running love stories. But the original true romance was never the marriage; the true love affair involved Sylvia and hundreds of young women coming of age in the first decade(s) following Plath's suicide. Sylvia: our sister, every woman's
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