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.
So this book contains not merely what verse she saved, but—after 1956—all she wrote. — Ted Hughes, from the Introduction
Sylvia Plath is one of the defining voices in twentieth-century poetry.
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.
Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) was one of the writers that defined the course of twentieth-century poetry.
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.
This books is a collection of poetry by SYLVIA PLATH.
These essays offer insights into a violently interesting poet, one who despite, or perhaps because of, her suicide at age thirty continues to fascinate and trouble us.
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.
identifies in her work a dialectical pattern – based on the polarity of sun and moon – to match Yeats's. Like Kroll's essay, Guttenberg's work is valuable in suggestingspecificsourcesandreferencepoints.Forsomereaders,though ...
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