*Robert Lowell, ‘Waking in the Blue’, Life Studies (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1959). SP attempted suicide on 24 August 1953, was treated at several local hospitals, and spent most of her time at McLean Hospital, Belmont, Mass. For letters written during this period, see Letters of Sylvia Plath, Vol. 1, 649–72.