Sylvia Plath

Author: Sylvia Plath

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  • : $24.99 AUD
  • : 9780571246991
  • : Faber & Faber, Limited
  • : Faber and Faber
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  • : 0.16
  • : April 2009
  • : 205mm X 132mm X 10mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : 24.99
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  • : September 2023
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  • : books

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  • : Sylvia Plath
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  • : Hardback
  • : 80th anniversary edition
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  • : English
  • : 811.54
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Description

Sylvia Plath (1932-63) possessed one of the most commanding voices in twentieth-century poetry. She published only one volume of verse, "The Colossus", during her life and a single novel, "The Bell Jar". After her death "Winter Trees", "Crossing the Water" and, most notably, the remarkable poems in "Ariel", brought her both posthumous fame and a readership that continues today. Subsequently, her "Collected Poems" won the Pulitzer Prize and, on publication, her Journals provided an insight into the life that was the basis for her work. Other volumes in this series, include: "Auden", "Betjemen", "Eliot", "Hughes", and "Yeats".

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One of six wonderful poetry collections published to celebrate Faber's 80th anniversary

Author description

Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) 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.