Sylvia Plath’s Last Letters

Gabriela Glăvan

doi:10.2478/rjes-2022-0009

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Sylvia Plath’s Last Letters

Romanian Journal of English Studies

Volume 19 (2022): Issue 1 (November 2022)

By: Gabriela Glăvan

Open Access

|Dec 2022

Abstract

Following the publication, in 2018, of a consistent part of Sylvia Plath’s correspondence, scholars interested in her complex biographical and literary story found new opportunities to read the American poet in a new light. I shall explore the letters she sent to her psychiatrist, Dr. Ruth Beuscher, while also critically observing their relevance in understanding Plath’s oeuvre.

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