Lucy Tunstall, on Plath’s “Fever 103”: “How might purity be achieved in a poem, it asks, and what might it cost a woman speaker or a woman poet? If a mystic must fast, pray and denounce all worldly bonds to achieve enlightenment, or an alchemist burn away all dross in a fiery crucible, what terrible process might lyrical elevation demand?”

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