Dark magic: the occult world of Sylvia Plath

Sylvia Plath (1932–63).

A review of ‘The Occult Sylvia Plath: The Hidden Spiritual Life of the Visionary Poet’ by Julia Gordon-Bramer (Destiny Books, May 2024)

Sylvia Plath, the American poet and novelist, was not only a famous, gifted writer with a dark side who tragically committed suicide but also a literary mystic of the highest order, asserts Plath scholar Julia Gordon-Bramer, who adds: ‘I aim to break…