The Occult Sylvia Plath: The Hidden Spiritual Life of the Visionary Poet by Gordon-Bramer, Julia

The Occult Sylvia Plath: The Hidden Spiritual Life of the Visionary Poet

Explores Sylvia Plath's enduring interest and active practice in mysticism and the occult from childhood until her...
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Author: Julia Gordon-Bramer
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The Occult Sylvia Plath: The Hidden Spiritual Life of the Visionary Poet by Gordon-Bramer, Julia

The Occult Sylvia Plath: The Hidden Spiritual Life of the Visionary Poet

$79.28

The Occult Sylvia Plath: The Hidden Spiritual Life of the Visionary Poet

$79.28
Author: Julia Gordon-Bramer
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Explores Sylvia Plath's enduring interest and active practice in mysticism and the occult from childhood until her tragic death in 1963

- 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- Based on more than 15 years of research, including analysis of Plath's unpublished personal writings from the Plath archives at Indiana University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Sharing her more than 15 years of compelling research--including analysis of Sylvia Plath's unpublished calendars, notebooks, scrapbooks, book annotations, and underlinings, as well as published memoirs, biographies, letters, journals, and interviews with Plath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. She also reveals how, at the end of her marriage, Plath used her husband's hair and fingernails in rituals.

Looking at Plath's writing and her evolution as a person through mystical, political, personal, and historical lenses, Gordon-Bramer shows how her 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 Estate.

Revealing significant, previously undiscovered meanings in Sylvia Plath's works, much broader than the narrow lens of her tragic autobiography, the author shows how Plath's writings are deeply rooted in her mystical and occult endeavors.

Author: Julia Gordon-Bramer
Publisher: Destiny Books
Published: 05/07/2024
Pages: 416
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.08d
ISBN: 9781644118627

About the Author
Julia Gordon-Bramer is a Sylvia Plath scholar, professional Tarot card reader, award-winning writer and poet, and former professor for the Graduate Writing Program at Lindenwood University. She is the author of several books, including Fixed Stars Govern a Life: Decoding Sylvia Plath, and Tarot Life Lessons. She lives in St. Louis, Missouri.

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