Plath and Hughes critics

Alvarez- Plath

withheld poet still partly under the massive shadow of her husband

Perloff- Plath

Plath had to conquer nature & her imaginative world is essentially a limited one

Van Dyne- Plath

Plath was deluded by prevailing constructions of femininity

Middlebrook - P&H

wrote from one shared mind

Bassnett- Plath

It is impossible to try to discover the real sylvia plath

Heaney- Plath

Daddy rampages so permissively in the history of other people’s sorrows that it simply withdraws its rights to our sympathy

Oates- Hughes

Lacks the originality and sharpness of plath’s poetry

Hughes

what excites my imagnation is the war between vitality and death

Armitage- Hughes

Poetic style seen by some as stubborn and entrenched

Lawrence- Hughes

his world is full of mystery and he always wants to explore the tremendous energy manifested in the world of nature