Example sentences for: plath

How can you use “plath” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Meanwhile, Hughes' sister Olwyn, the literary agent for Plath's estate, refused to cooperate with biographers critical of her brother--that means all biographers except one, Anne Stevenson ( Bitter Fame )--forbidding them to quote at length from Plath's works.

  • Despite Birthday Letters ' seeming tenderness toward Plath, feminists argue that the poems unwittingly show Hughes' true stripes.

  • But a set of memoirs by Plath's friends appeared in the early '70s arguing that Hughes' infidelity and cruelty drove Plath to suicide.

  • Some of Plath's feminist defenders say Hughes' "lax and digressive" verses "serve mostly to remind us of what a great poet she was" (Katha Pollitt, the New York Times Book Review ). Hughes' defenders use the occasion to restate their case against Plath's greatness: Her poetry was humorless and hyperbolic and would not be remembered had she not committed suicide.

  • 99 for 60 pills--a two-month supply for me, a 20-day supply for Sylvia Plath.


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