The Cult Of Sylvia

Posted at 9:00 on December 11, 2012 by Andrew Sullivan
While attending a symposium on Sylvia Plath at Indiana University, which houses many of the poet's artifacts, Emma Komlos-Hrobsky succumbed to an impulse common to "Plath people": Plath, like no other poet, has been idolized and appropriated and taken ownership of, cast and recast by acolytes as a "suicide doll,&quo...