The Collected Poems
HarperCollins · Print & ebook · March 6, 2018
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- Who it’s for
- Read Plath’s poetic work as a whole, including the pieces she brought to some final form.
- Genres
- American Poetry, Women Poets, Poetry About Death
- Published
- HarperCollins, March 6, 2018
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Pulitzer Prize winner Sylvia Plath’s complete poetic works, edited and introduced by Ted Hughes. By the time of her death on 11, February 1963, Sylvia Plath had written a large bulk of poetry. To my knowledge, she never scrapped any of her poetic efforts. With one or two exceptions, she brought every piece she worked on to some final form acceptable to her, rejecting at most the odd verse, or a false head or a false tail.
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Her attitude to her verse was artisan-like: if she couldn’t get a table out of the material, she was quite happy to get a chair, or even a toy. The end product for her was not so much a successful poem, as something that had temporarily exhausted her ingenuity. So this book contains not merely what verse she saved, but—after 1956—all she wrote. — Ted Hughes, from the Introduction
Poems in Full
Read Plath’s poetic work as a whole, including the pieces she brought to some final form.
Come here for
- A close encounter with Sylvia Plath’s complete poetic works
- Ted Hughes’s introduction and account of her working practice
Expect
- Poems spanning the work she saved and, after 1956, all she wrote
Where it sits
| Women Poets | 80% |
|---|---|
| Poetry About Death | 59% |
| American Poetry | 48% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- American Poetry
- Poetry About Death
- Women Poets
- Authors
- Sylvia Plath
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Published
- March 6, 2018
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- American Poetry