Couldn't agree with you less, Hugh. I have no idea what the point of
your party anecdotes is. Regarding the reviews, the prejudice
manifested by the writers must surely have constituted a difficulty for
Plath. 1960 is not so long ago.
Mairead
On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Hugh Tolhurst wrote:
> from an article by Martin Flanagan
> The Age June 24 2000
>
> (following on from the party story,
> just related)
>
> Relating that story causes her to
> erupt with mirth. Not that she liked
> Plath, whom she considered self-
> absorbed and alarmingly ambitious,
> sharing the general view that the
> American's early verse was glib and
> pretentious. One of her poems,
> Scott recalls, was titled "Three Caryatids
> Without a Portico by Hugh Robus: A
> Study in Sculptural Dimensions".
>
>
> ... "If Miss Plath can let things slip a bit without
> gushing her next book may remove all one's doubts."
> Roy Fuller, London Magazine, 1961.
>
>
> Which aside from the dated form of address,
> seems about fair of The Colossus.
>
> Best
>
> Hugh Tolhurst
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