The Collected Poems - Sylvia Plath

Brand: Harper Perennial Modern Classics | Status: Hết hàng

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"I am one of those people who adores Plath's writing. The Bell Jar is one of my favorite novels, but her poems far surpass her gift as a novelist. Plath was a master with words and her poetry shows how she finely plucked each word from the branches of her mind to make some of the beautiful prose I've ever read. She is raw and unafraid in her poetry which is her gift to the world. We are allowed to experience these raw emotions as she did without hesitation which not many people are bold enough to do. I would definitely recommend this book, but if you are easily flustered or prefer happy poetry, you may want to read someone else instead. Perhaps ee cummings or Lucille Clifton-- their words are beautiful and open, but without all the self-loathing, anger and death talk.." - Amazon Customer Reviews

Pulitzer Prize winner Sylvia Plath’s complete poetic works, edited and introduced by Ted Hughes.

By the time of her death on 11, February 1963, Sylvia Plath had written a large bulk of poetry. To my knowledge, she never scrapped any of her poetic efforts. With one or two exceptions, she brought every piece she worked on to some final form acceptable to her, rejecting at most the odd verse, or a false head or a false tail. Her attitude to her verse was artisan-like: if she couldn’t get a table out of the material, she was quite happy to get a chair, or even a toy. The end product for her was not so much a successful poem, as something that had temporarily exhausted her ingenuity. So this book contains not merely what verse she saved, but—after 1956—all she wrote. — Ted Hughes, from the Introduction