SOURCE: "The Deathly Paradise of Sylvia Plath," in The Antioch Review, Vol. 34, No. 4, Summer, 1976, pp. 469-80.
In the following essay, Scheerer traces Plath's rejection of mythic paradise—which she evokes using imagery of death—in her poetry.
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