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Collected Poems (Paperback)
by Sylvia Plath (Author)
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Product details
  • Paperback: 351 pages
  • Publisher: Faber and Faber (19 Aug 2002)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0571118380
  • ISBN-13: 978-0571118380
  • Product Dimensions: 21.4 x 13.8 x 2.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  (9 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 30,148 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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  • Other Editions: Hardcover  |  Paperback (1st U.S. Ed) |  All Editions


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Amazon.co.uk Review
Sylvia Plath died in 1963, and even now her outsize persona threatens to bury her poetry--the numerous biographies and studies often drawing the reader toward anecdote and away from the work. It's a relief to turn to the poems themselves and once more be jolted by their strange beauty, hard-wrought originality and acetylene anger. "It is a heart, / This holocaust I walk in, / O golden child the world will kill and eat." While the juvenilia and poems written before 1960 that Ted Hughes has included here prefigure Plath's later obsessions, they also enable us to witness her turn from thesaurus-heavy verse to stripped-down art as they gather power through raw simplicity. "The blood jet is poetry. / There is no stopping it," she declares in "Kindness."

Synopsis
This volume contains all of Sylvia Plath's mature poetry written from 1956 up to her death in 1963. It was awarded the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. The text is preceded by an introduction by Ted Hughes and followed by notes and comments on individual poems. An appendix contains 50 earlier poems.

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