Sylvia Plath

Informationen zum Autor Sylvia Plath (1932 - 63) 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. Ted Hughes (1930-1998) was born in Yorkshire. His first book, The Hawk in the Rain , was published in 1957 by Faber & Faber and was followed by many volumes of poetry and prose for adults and children. He received the Whitbread Book of the Year for two consecutive years for his last published collections of poetry, Tales from Ovid and Birthday Letters . He was Poet Laureate from 1984, and in 1998 he was appointed to the Order of Merit. Klappentext Ted Hughes's classic selection of Sylvia Plath's poetry provides the perfect introduction to a major body of work in twentieth-century poetry. Hughes draws upon the collections Ariel, The Colossus, Crossing the Water and Winter Trees, and from Sylvia Plath's Pulitzer Prize-winning Collected Poems. In Sylvia Plath , Ted Hughes selects some of the most important and compelling poems from Sylvia Plath's collections Ariel, The Colossus, Crossing the Water and Winter Trees. Zusammenfassung Ted Hughes's classic selection of Sylvia Plath's poetry provides the perfect introduction to a major body of work in twentieth-century poetry. Hughes draws upon the collections Ariel, The Colossus, Crossing the Water and Winter Trees, and from Sylvia Plath's Pulitzer Prize-winning Collected Poems.

Product details

• Authors: Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath
• Assisted by: Ted Hughes (Editor), Hughes Ted (Editor)
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.01.2004
• EAN: 9780571222971
• ISBN: 978-0-571-22297-1
• No. of pages: 80
• Dimensions: 120 mm x 198 mm x 5 mm
• Series: Poet to Poet; Poet to Poet
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, POETRY / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, United States of America, USA, Gender studies: women, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Modern & contemporary poetry (c 1900 onwards), Northeastern & North Atlantic States, US Northeast: New England, Literary studies: poetry and poets