Dear Ally and Susanne,
I have to disagree with this assessment of Plath, who was fully occupied
most of the time and had a clear and precise eye: her poems attest to her
intense interest in things outside herself -- for me they often have the
attention and accuracy of Hopkins' letters.
Mairead
On Tue, 4 Jul 2000, Ally Kerr wrote:
> Dear Susanne,
>
> Jane Austen, in Persuasion, suggests that folk who are depressed should avoid reading poetry.... She's probably got a point: so many poets are miserable self-obsessed b****rs like Plath! On the other hand, when us students were depressed in the 60s, we used to listen to a Leonard Cohen LP and then we knew there was someone who felt worse than we did. Cheered us up no end. The Rev Sydney Smith said read humour and get out a lot.
>
> Cheers
>
>
> Ally Kerr
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