Sylvia Plath is one of the defining voices in twentieth-century poetry. This classic selection of her work, made by her former husband Ted Hughes, provides the perfect introduction to this most influential of poets. The poems are taken from Sylvia Plath's four collections Ariel, The Colossus, Crossing the Water and Winter Trees, and include many of her most celebrated works, such as 'Daddy', 'Lady Lazarus' and 'Wuthering Heights'.
Sylvia Plath is one of the defining voices in twentieth-century poetry.
So this book contains not merely what verse she saved, but—after 1956—all she wrote. — Ted Hughes, from the Introduction
This edition of the poems, chosen by the Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy, offers a fresh selection of Sylvia Plath's poetry to stand in parallel to the existing editions.
In this series, a contemporary poet advocates a poet of the past or present whom they have particularly admired.
The first of four collections to be published by Faber & Faber, Ariel is the volume on which Sylvia Plath's reputation as one of the most original, daring and gifted poets of the twentieth century rests.
These volumes will be available as a complete set, mini boxed sets (by theme) or as individual volumes. This second set compliments the first 68 volume set of Critical Heritage published by Routledge in October 1995.
Winter Trees has descriptive copy which is not yet available from the Publisher.
Selected Poems: Sylvia Plath
Plath imagines that the Colossus, which once dominated the harbor at Rhodes, is her father's dead body, now lying broken in pieces on a hillside. The father's “ancient” power and size have been destroyed through time.
Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) was one of the writers that defined the course of twentieth-century poetry.