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Plath: Poems

Plath: Poems

Selected by Diane Wood Middlebrook

by Sylvia Plath
Hardback
Publication Date: 13/10/1998

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A representative selection of verse by the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer who left in the wake of her personal tragedy a legacy of poems that combine terrifying intensity and dazzling artistry. With their brutally frank self-exposure and emotional immediacy, Plath's poems, from "Lady Lazarus" to "Daddy," have had an enduring influence on contemporary poetry.
ISBN:
9780375404641
9780375404641
Category:
Poetry by individual poets
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
13-10-1998
Language:
English
Publisher:
Random House USA Inc
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
256
Dimensions (mm):
165x112x18mm
Weight:
0.23kg
Sylvia Plath

Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and studied at Smith College. In 1955 she went to Cambridge University on a Fulbright scholarship, where she met and later married Ted Hughes.

She published one collection of poems in her lifetime, The Colossus (1960), and a novel, The Bell Jar (1963). Her Collected Poems, which contains her poetry written from 1956 until her death, was published in 1981 and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.

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