Book contents
- Sylvia Plath in Context
- Sylvia Plath in Context
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Chronology
- Abbreviations and Textual Note
- Key Archives
- Introduction
- Part I Literary Contexts
- Part II Literary Technique and Influence
- Chapter 6 Plath in the Context of Stevie Smith
- Chapter 7 Plath’s Whimsy
- Chapter 8 Sylvia Plath and You
- Chapter 9 Plath and the Lyric
- Chapter 10 Plath and the Pastoral
- Part III Cultural Contexts
- Part IV Sexual and Gender Contexts
- Part V Political and Religious Contexts
- Part VI Biographical Contexts
- Part VII Plath and Place
- Part VIII The Creative Afterlife
- Bibliography
- Index
Chapter 10 - Plath and the Pastoral
from Part II - Literary Technique and Influence
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 August 2019
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Book contents
- Sylvia Plath in Context
- Sylvia Plath in Context
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Chronology
- Abbreviations and Textual Note
- Key Archives
- Introduction
- Part I Literary Contexts
- Part II Literary Technique and Influence
- Chapter 6 Plath in the Context of Stevie Smith
- Chapter 7 Plath’s Whimsy
- Chapter 8 Sylvia Plath and You
- Chapter 9 Plath and the Lyric
- Chapter 10 Plath and the Pastoral
- Part III Cultural Contexts
- Part IV Sexual and Gender Contexts
- Part V Political and Religious Contexts
- Part VI Biographical Contexts
- Part VII Plath and Place
- Part VIII The Creative Afterlife
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Iain Twiddy elucidates several strands of the pastoral that operate in Plath’s poetry, ‘including metaphysical or internal pastoral, the intimacy of pastoral with loss, mourning and elegy, and the influence of pastoral figures’. There is also Plath’s engagement ‘with classical pastoral in early poems’.
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- Sylvia Plath in Context , pp. 104 - 114Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019