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Collected Poems

By Sylvia Plath
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Collected Poems by Sylvia Plath is an evocative compilation of her most esteemed poetry, showcasing her profound and introspective exploration of themes like identity, existence, love, and death. This volume highlights her exceptional command of language and ability to depict deep emotional experiences, offering readers a glimpse into the mind of one of the 20th century's most compelling poets.
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Format: Paperback / softback
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You may enjoy this book if you appreciate raw, evocative poetry that delves deeply into themes of identity, nature, and the human psyche. With intense emotion and vivid imagery, the work captures the complexity of inner struggles and the beauty of language, appealing to lovers of profound and contemplative literature.

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Pulitzer Prize winner Sylvia Plath's complete poetic works, edited and introduced by Ted Hughes.

By the time of her death on 11 February 1963, Sylvia Plath had written a large bulk of poetry. To my knowledge, she never scrapped any of her poetic efforts. With one or two exceptions, she brought every piece she worked on to some final form acceptable to her, rejecting at most the odd verse, or a false head or a false tail. Her attitude to her verse was artisan-like: if she couldn't get a table out of the material, she was quite happy to get a chair, or even a toy. The end product for her was not so much a successful poem, as something that had temporarily exhausted her ingenuity. So this book contains not merely what verse she saved, but—after 1956—all she wrote. -- Ted Hughes, from the Introduction

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780061558894

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 01 September 2008

Country: United States

Imprint: HarperCollins Publishers

Audience: General / adult

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Weight: 250g

Pages: 384

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Arts & Culture Classic Poetry Non-Fiction Poetry Sylvia Plath

About the Author

Sylvia Plath was born in 1932 in Massachusetts. Her books include the poetry collections The Colossus, Crossing the Water, Winter Trees, Ariel, and Collected Poems, which won the Pulitzer Prize. A complete and uncut facsimile edition of Ariel was published in 2004 with her original selection and arrangement of poems. She was married to the poet Ted Hughes, with whom she had a daughter, Frieda, and a son, Nicholas. She died in London in 1963.

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