Selected Poems of Sylvia Plath
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Selected Poems of Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath is one of the defining voices in twentieth-century poetry. The poems are taken from Sylvia Plath's four collections Ariel, The Colossus, Crossing the Water and Winter Trees, and include many of her most celebrated works, such as 'Daddy', 'Lady Lazarus' and 'Wuthering Heights'.
The Selected Poems of Sylvia Plath offers a classic selection of the poetry of one of the twentieth century's most influential poets.
When Sylvia Plath's Ariel was published posthumously, A. Alvarez in the Observer wrote: "If the poems are despairing, vengeful and destructive, they are at the same time tender, open to things, and also unusually clever, sardonic, hardminded. They are works of great artistic purity and, despite all the nihilism, great generosity. The book is a major literary event."
This selection made by Ted Hughes from all her work shows that Sylvia Plath is clearly a major poet of the twentieth century, a rare example of the egotistical sublime.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9780571135868
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 03 March 2003
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Faber & Faber
Edition: Main
Contributors:
- Edited by Ted Hughes
- Edited by Ted Hughes
- Edited by Ted Hughes
Audience: Primary and secondary education
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 8.0mm
Width: 133.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 120g
Pages: 96
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About the Author
Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and studied at Smith College. In 1955 she went to Cambridge University on a Fulbright scholarship, where she met and later married Ted Hughes. She published one collection of poems in her lifetime, The Colossus (1960), and a novel, The Bell Jar (1963). Her Collected Poems, which contains her poetry written from 1956 until her death, was published in 1981 and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry.
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