Sylvia Plath inspires us all in various and wonderful ways. She is in many respects a form of comfort to us, which is something that Esther Greenwood expresses in The Bell Jar , about a bath: "There must be quite a few things a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them. Whenever I'm sad I'm going to die, or so nervous I can't sleep, or in love with somebody I won't be seeing for a week, I slump down just so far and then I say: 'I'll go take a hot bath.'" We read and remember Sylvia Plath for many reasons, many of them deeply personal and private. But we commemorate her, too, in very public ways, as Anna of the long-standing Tumblr Loving Sylvia Plath , has been tracking, in the form of tattoos. (Anna's on Instagram with it too, as SylviaPlathInk .) The above bath quote is among Sylvia Plath's most famous. It often appears here and there and it is stripped of its context. But I think most people will know it is from her nove...
Sylvia Plath Info Blog by Peter K. Steinberg. The blog of A celebration, this is.
Looking forward to the new-ish site. Will email soon. Hope you are well.
ReplyDeleteMelanie,
ReplyDeleteThanks!! The index2.html, books.html and resources.html are updated. The photographs and book covers are a bigger project, so I hope to have them up by the end of the year. Other content will be re-written and updated too.
I hope that you are doing well.
Cheers
Peter