Sylvia Plath's Selected Poems

ISBN-10
0571136788
ISBN-13
9780571136780
Category
American poetry
Pages
85
Language
English
Published
1985-01-01
Authors
Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath

Description

In this series, a contemporary poet advocates a poet of the past or present whom they have particularly admired. By their selection of verses and by the personal and critical reactions they express, the selectors offer intriguing insight into their own work.

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