The Poems of Sylvia Plath
Erschienen am 7. April 2026
1000 Seiten
978-0-571-37206-5 (ISBN)
Beschreibung
The definitive edition of Plath's poetry for readers, scholars and students
Sylvia Plath's first Collected Poems was published in 1981. This present volume emerges out of decades of research and almost doubles the content of that previous edition.
The book is in two parts. It begins with the poems Plath composed in the last ten years of her life and on which her reputation is founded, and follows with those poems written in childhood and through her student years, sourced from diaries and letters, published in school magazines, and copied into the manuscript book that Plath kept for her own records. In each instance, the editors have dated and selected the most authoritative text, and provide critical notes that offer insight into Plath's extraordinary evolution as a poet - from her early, precocious determination to be a writer to her place in literary history as the twentieth-century's most fiercely burning star.
Sylvia Plath's first Collected Poems was published in 1981. This present volume emerges out of decades of research and almost doubles the content of that previous edition.
The book is in two parts. It begins with the poems Plath composed in the last ten years of her life and on which her reputation is founded, and follows with those poems written in childhood and through her student years, sourced from diaries and letters, published in school magazines, and copied into the manuscript book that Plath kept for her own records. In each instance, the editors have dated and selected the most authoritative text, and provide critical notes that offer insight into Plath's extraordinary evolution as a poet - from her early, precocious determination to be a writer to her place in literary history as the twentieth-century's most fiercely burning star.
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Main
Sprache
Englisch
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London
Großbritannien
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7,13 MB
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978-0-571-37206-5 (9780571372065)
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Sylvia Plath (1932-63) was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and studied at Smith College. She published one collection of poems in her lifetime, The Colossus (1960), and a novel, The Bell Jar (1963). Her Collected Poems was published in 1981 and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry.
Amanda Golden is author of Annotating Modernism: Marginalia and Pedagogy from Virginia Woolf to the Confessional Poets (2020) and co-editor of The Bloomsbury Handbook to Sylvia Plath (2022).
Karen V. Kukil is editor of The Journals of Sylvia Plath (2000) and co-editor of the two-volume edition of The Letters of Sylvia Plath (2017/18).
Amanda Golden is author of Annotating Modernism: Marginalia and Pedagogy from Virginia Woolf to the Confessional Poets (2020) and co-editor of The Bloomsbury Handbook to Sylvia Plath (2022).
Karen V. Kukil is editor of The Journals of Sylvia Plath (2000) and co-editor of the two-volume edition of The Letters of Sylvia Plath (2017/18).
