From The Perils of Fame: Sylvia Plath and Seamus Heaney | The Hudson Review view
Was Plath on the side of death? I don’t think so, and not only because of the way she structured her final book of poems. She made them, worked them, intended them to have the best life she could possibly give them.
Plath always felt like a secret to me, despite encountering her work in class. Like Ann Bannon’s books, a portal into ferocious identity. That could be shaped into a way of understand int myself in the world.
This review is not about that. Not really. I will read the biography – I have read most of them and often with Ted Hughes' last volume of poetry.
This is the best a literature and cricism, I think.