Collected Poems

Informationen zum Autor Sylvia Plath Klappentext This comprehensive volume contains all Sylvia Plath's mature poetry written from 1956 up to her death in 1963. The poems are drawn from the only collection Plath published while alive, The Colossus, as well as from posthumous collections Ariel, Crossing the Water and Winter Trees . The text is preceded by an introduction by Ted Hughes and followed by notes and comments on individual poems. There is also an appendix containing fifty poems from Sylvia Plath's juvenilia. This collection was awarded the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for poetry. 'For me, the most important literary event of 1981 has been the publication, eighteen years after her death, of Sylvia Plath's Collected Poems , confirming her as one of the most powerful and lavishly gifted poets of our time.' A. Alvarez in the Observer The Collected Poems of Sylvia Plath, written between 1956 and her death in 1963, in the Pulitzer Prize-winning edition of Plath's iconic poetry. Zusammenfassung Contains all Sylvia Plath's mature poetry written from 1956 up to her death in 1963.

Product details

• Authors: Sylvia Plath
• Assisted by: Ted Hughes (Editor)
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.08.2002
• EAN: 9780571118380
• ISBN: 978-0-571-11838-0
• No. of pages: 351
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 215 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women, POETRY / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women & girls, Modern & contemporary poetry (c 1900 onwards), Northeastern & North Atlantic States