Sylvia Plath: Collected Poems

Plath, Sylvia; Hughes, Ted (ed.)

ISBN 10: 0571118380 / ISBN 13: 9780571118380

Published by Faber and Faber, London, 1981

About this Item

Paperback in good condition. Spine is sunned and creased, covers are worn at corners and edges. Faint marks to page block. Contents remain clean throughout and binding is sound. AD.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Sylvia Plath: Collected Poems
• Publisher: Faber and Faber, London
• Publication Date: 1981
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0571118380
• ISBN 13: 9780571118380
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Good
• Book Type: Used
• Seller catalogs:
  • Poetry

About this title

Synopsis

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

About the Authors

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.