Selected Poems of Sylvia Plath
(Paperback, Main)
Publishing Details
Selected Poems of Sylvia Plath
By (Author) Sylvia Plath
Edited by Ted Hughes
Faber & Faber
Faber & Faber
1st July 2005
3rd March 2003
Main
United Kingdom
Classifications
Primary and Secondary Educational
Non Fiction
Literary studies: poetry and poets
Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000
811.54
Physical Properties
Paperback
96
Width 133mm, Height 198mm, Spine 8mm
120g
Description
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.
Author Bio
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.
