The Collected Poems
by:
Ted Hughes (author)
Sylvia Plath (author)
A new edition of Sylvia Plath's Pulitzer Prize-winning Collected Poems, edited and with an introduction by Ted Hughes
A new edition of Sylvia Plath's Pulitzer Prize-winning Collected Poems, edited and with an introduction by Ted Hughes
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780061558894 (0061558893)
ASIN: 61558893
Publish date: September 2nd 2008
Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Pages no: 384
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...
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