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The Occult Sylvia Plath

The Hidden Spiritual Life of the Visionary Poet

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The Occult Sylvia Plath

Auteur(s): Julia Gordon-Bramer
Narrateur(s): Julia Gordon-Bramer
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 • Decodes the alchemical, Qabalistic, hermetic, spiritual, and Tarot-related references in many of Plath’s poems

• Based on more than 15 years of research, including analysis of Plath’s unpublished personal writings from the Plath archives at Indiana University

• Examines the influences of Plath’s parents, her early interests in Hermeticism, and her and husband Ted Hughes’s explorations in the supernatural and the occult

Sharing her more than 15 years of compelling research—including analysis of Sylvia Plath’s unpublished calendars, notebooks, scrapbooks, book annotations, and underlinings as well as published memoirs, biographies, letters, journals, and interviews with Plath and her husband, friends, and family—Plath scholar Julia Gordon-Bramer reveals Sylvia Plath’s enduring interest and active practice in mysticism and the occult from childhood until her tragic death in 1963. She examines Plath’s early years growing up in a transcendentalist Unitarian church under a brilliant, if stern, Freemason father and a mother who wrote her master’s dissertation on the famous alchemist Paracelsus. She reveals Plath’s early knowledge of Hermeticism, how she devoured books on the occult throughout her life, and how, since adolescence, Plath regularly wrote of premonitory dreams. Examining Plath’s tumultuous marriage with poet Ted Hughes, she looks at their explorations in the supernatural and Hughes’s mentoring of Plath in meditation, crystal-gazing, astrology, Qabalah, tarot, automatic writing, magical workings, and use of the Ouija board.

Looking at Plath’s writing and her evolution as a person through mystical, political, personal, and historical lenses, Gordon-Bramer shows how Plath’s poems take on radically new, surprising, and universal meanings—explaining why Hughes perpetually denied that Plath was a “confessional poet.” Contrasting the versions in Letters Home with those held in the Plath archives at Indiana University, the author also shows how all occult influences have been rigorously excised from the letters approved for publication by the Plath and Hughes estates. Revealing previously undiscovered meanings deeply rooted in her mystical and occult endeavors, the author shows how Plath’s writings are much broader than the narrow lens of her tragic autobiography. Culture populaire Sciences sociales Mariage Paranormal Divorce
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By chosing only one figure from 20th Century, who has made an indelible mark on both poetry and English literature, and cleverly disguised occult spiritual beliefs, Gordon-Bramer has written about a life that I didn't know I needed to learn! Pertinent facts and compelling story-telling had me returning to this book, day after day, and chapter after chapter! I've also gained more insight on my own spiritual journey, and I'm grateful to the author for opening my mind, my heart, and my spirit to a sort of connectedness I think I needed! It is a longer read, which I don't lament because the wealth of knowledge must be contextualized in order to be better understood. This book could also be a guide post to other literary works, from history or the modern era, those mentioned in the book including by Ted Hughes, and all points in between, or to guide the reader, as it did me, to more spiritual understanding of the self and of the spiritual collective. Please consider purchasing a hard copy, or downloading the audio version as I did. I genuinely have not immersed myself into any other book or a biography about a public figure as I had with "The Occult Sylvia Plath". Thank you to Julia Gordon-Bramer and Sylvia Plath! In reference to Sylvia, and to quote the last line: "The spell has worked on us all." -B.M.

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