""In a 1962 interview with Peter Orr, Sylvia Plath specifically cited Lowell's "Life Studies" as having had a profound influence over the poetry she was writing at that time (and which her husband would publish posthumously as "Ariel" a few years later), stating, "I've been very excited by what I feel is the new breakthrough that came with, say, Robert Lowell's "Life Studies", this intense breakthrough into very serious, very personal, emotional experience which I feel has been partly taboo.