The Poems of Sylvia Plath

Sylvia Plath (1932-63) was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and studied at Smith College. She published one collection of poems in her lifetime, The Colossus (1960), and a novel, The Bell Jar (1963). Her Collected Poems was published in 1981 and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry. Amanda Golden is author of Annotating Modernism: Marginalia and Pedagogy from Virginia Woolf to the Confessional Poets (2020) and co-editor of The Bloomsbury Handbook to Sylvia Plath (2022). Karen V. Kukil is editor of The Journals of Sylvia Plath (2000) and co-editor of the two-volume edition of The Letters of Sylvia Plath (2017/18).

Product details

• Authors: Sylvia Plath
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 09.04.2026
• EAN: 9780571372041
• ISBN: 978-0-571-37204-1
• No. of pages: 1000
• Subjects: POETRY / Women Authors, Poetry by individual poets, Modern and contemporary poetry (c 1900 onwards)