Sylvia Plath: Voices and Visions

(56 min; 1988; English)
Director: Lawrence Pitkethly
Produced by New York Center for Visual History

The film follows in considerable and sometimes excruciatingly painful detail Sylvia Plath's life from her childhood in Massachusetts to her suicide, at age 30, in London in 1963. Included are the candid recollections of her mother, Aurelia Plath, and acquaintances such as Clarissa Roche and Dido Merwin. Providing perspectives on Plath's work are A. Alvarez, a critic, and Sandra M. Gilbert, a feminist scholar and herself a poet.