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The Collected Poems

A new edition of Pulitzer Prize winner Sylvia Plath s complete poetic works, edited and introduced by Ted Hughes.

ISBN 9780061558894
2018

Erscheinungsdatum: 06.03.2018 .

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A new edition of Pulitzer Prize winner Sylvia Plath s complete poetic works, edited and introduced by Ted Hughes.

By the time of her death, on February 11th, 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. 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. The aim of the present complete edition, which contains a numbered sequence of the 224 poems written after 1956 together with a further 50 poems chosen from her pre-1956 work, is to bring Sylvia Plath s poetry together in one volume, including the various uncollected and unpublished pieces, and to set everything in as true a chronological order as is possible, so that the whole progress and achievement of this unusual poet will become accessible to readers. - Ted Hughes

Autorenportrait:
Sylvia Plath, geboren am 27. Oktober 1932 in Boston, heiratete nach dem Studium 1956 den englischen Lyriker Ted Hughes, mit dem sie zwei Kinder hatte. Am 11. Februar 1963 nahm sie sich in London das Leben.

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Sylvia Plath

Die Dichterin Sylvia Plath, geboren 1932 in Boston, verheiratet mit dem Dichter Ted Hughes, wurde nach ihrem Selbstmord 1963 in London mit dem Roman Die Glasglocke und dem Gedichtband Ariel zu einer internationalen Ikone der Frauenbewegung.

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