The Romantic Nature of Sylvia Plath

This book will be dedicated to the examination of all the important manifestations of Plath's poetry: namely political, romantic, modernist, feminist and psychoanalytic, in order to move a step further away from traditional criticism and to prove that the personae Sylvia Plath created were nothing but masks, whose multiplicity are open to interpretation and this interpretation is left to the inclination of individual readers.

This poetry is so well crafted, however, that multiple views must be taken into account. Plath managed to create a mystery around her name and her poetry, not only by enacting the suicide she wrote about in her later poems, but also by challenging the reader by incorporating all the elements that were available to her both from her predecessors' poetry as well as the issues of her time.