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Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar: On "Daddy"

In such famous late poems as "Lady Lazarus" and "Daddy" she fantasizes vengeful victories won by female speakers who openly act for themselves.

From No Man’s Land: The Place of the Woman Writer in the Twentieth Century, Volume I, The War of the Words. Copyright © 1998 by Yale University Press.

Publication Status: 
Excerpted Criticism [1]
Criticism Target: 
Sylvia Plath [2]
Author: 
Sandra Gilbert [3]
Poem: 
Daddy [4]
Source URL: http://www.modernamericanpoetry.org/criticism/sandra-gilbert-and-susan-gubar-daddy

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[1] http://www.modernamericanpoetry.org/category/publication-status/excerpted-criticism
[2] http://www.modernamericanpoetry.org/poet/sylvia-plath
[3] http://www.modernamericanpoetry.org/creator/sandra-gilbert
[4] http://www.modernamericanpoetry.org/poem/daddy