Collected Poems
by:
Ted Hughes (author)
Sylvia Plath (author)
Containing everything that celebrated poet Sylvia Plath wrote after 1956, this is one of the most comprehensive collections of her work. Edited, annotated, and with an introduction by Ted Hughes.
Containing everything that celebrated poet Sylvia Plath wrote after 1956, this is one of the most comprehensive collections of her work. Edited, annotated, and with an introduction by Ted Hughes.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780060909000 (0060909005)
Publish date: October 30th 1981
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Pages no: 352
Edition language: English
Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets
I'm not sure if I'm being morbid but it is almost impossible for me to read any of Sylvia Plath's work without thinking about her suicide. I guess it's because her poetry is already so dark, and knowing that she suffered from depression and ended her own life, adds another element to it.With that be...
I know--I'm a cretin. As much as I love some of these poems, as a whole, this book is exhausting. I firmly believe that Sylvia Plath was a great artist, in prose as well as poetry. 'The Bell Jar' is one of my favorite novels. Nor do I think that her personality or the legend of her life overpowers h...