“My tree stays tree”: Sylvia Plath and Ovid’s Daphne
(2019)
Journal Article
Ranger, H. (2019). “My tree stays tree”: Sylvia Plath and Ovid’s Daphne. International Journal of the Classical Tradition, 27, 215-237. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12138-019-00503-9
Critical appraisals of Sylvia Plath’s oeuvre remain dominated by psychoanalytic readings that conflate the writer’s life and work. Poems such as ‘Electra on Azalea Path’ are presented as emblematic of what is perceived to be Plath’s autobiographical... Read More about “My tree stays tree”: Sylvia Plath and Ovid’s Daphne.