If the tone of my last offended Mairead,
my apologies, it's early here and I'm
pithier before breakfast.
However, the views of a member of
the social group, Ted and Sylvia moved in
are relevant to biographical based appreciation.
Margaret Scott is a wonderful woman, frank
in her opinions. Her Family Album
is due out from Random House in 2000
(her last book was on the Port Arthur Massacre)
and she drank with the young Sylvia Plath
as an outsider too, one of the only 20 women
at Cambridge in 1953.
I'm just quoting from the most interesting article
The Age Saturday Extra has published in 2000.
apologies for tonal fractiousness
Hugh
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Subject: Re: Party stories and poetry reviews
> 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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