Doris Kraler-bergmann

Sylvia Plath's Lyrical Responses to Works of Art: a Portrait of the Artist (S) Doris Kraler-bergmann

No doubt, people who have an artistic bent oftenrealize their full creative potential in more thanone field of the arts. Musicians are not onlymusicians, painters are not only painters and poetsare not just poets. Throughout her short life, SylviaPlath was similarly interested in a variety ofpursuits, including drawing, for which she had aquite remarkable gift. This book attempts to traceher development as both poet and artist through aclose examination of her letters, journal entries,and last but not least poems related to art. Indeed,if, through a painting, an artist such as HenriRousseau expresses his innermost feelings, thenSylvia Plath likewise reveals her inner life, herartistic preoccupations and concerns, in these earlymeditations on art. This book takes a closer look atSylvia Plath's artistic career, gives an introductionto the ekphrastic theory and finally discussesvarious poems and their respective paintings throughthe eyes of the artist(s).