The Smile of Accomplishment: Sylvia Plath's Ambition

Autor: Patricia Hampl
Rok vydání: 1995
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Zdroj: The Iowa Review. 25:1-28
ISSN: 2330-0361
0021-065X
DOI: 10.17077/0021-065x.4377
Popis: NOVEMBER, 1966, and before me is a book titled Ariel which I am reviewing for the University of Minnesota student newspaper. It is the first book review I've ever written. I push on, past my timidity, with a lead I hope is punchy: "Women poets, as a rule, have a hard time of it." I am the only girl on the student literary magazine. I am not really aware that I'm the only girl on the staff; I don't see things that way yet. It would never occur to me to say I am the only woman on staff. I want to be a writer, and I bring more urgency to this desire than to anything I actually want to write about.
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