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    The Collected Poems

    By Sylvia Plath

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    Pulitzer Prize winner Sylvia Plath’s complete poetic works, edited and introduced by Ted Hughes.

    By the time of her death on 11, February 1963, Sylvia Plath had written a large bulk of poetry. To my knowledge, she never scrapped any of her poetic efforts. With one or two exceptions, she brought every piece she worked on to some final form acceptable to her, rejecting at most the odd verse, or a false head or a false tail. Her attitude to her verse was artisan-like: if she couldn’t get a table out of the material, she was quite happy to get a chair, or even a toy. The end product for her was not so much a successful poem, as something that had temporarily exhausted her ingenuity. So this book contains not merely what verse she saved, but—after 1956—all she wrote. — Ted Hughes, from the Introduction

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateNov 15, 2016
    ISBN9780062669452
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    Sylvia Plath

    Sylvia Plath was born in 1932 in Massachusetts. Her books include the poetry collections The Colossus, Crossing the Water, Winter Trees, Ariel, and Collected Poems, which won the Pulitzer Prize. A complete and uncut facsimile edition of Ariel was published in 2004 with her original selection and arrangement of poems. She was married to the poet Ted Hughes, with whom she had a daughter, Frieda, and a son, Nicholas. She died in London in 1963.

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    • 5/5
      This is my favorite collection of poems. I read it during my melancholy teenage years, and I always felt better. It is impossible to read this and not find a poem that will be one of your favorites.
    • 4/5
      One of my favourite poems is one I had to study for my final A Level exam: "Mirror". Her use of imagery is amazing.
    • 4/5
      I really like her later work better and her domestic-themed poems are truly the best with one exception, "Daddy." Not a happy camper; it's truly not surprising to me that she finally succumbed to depression and killed herself. Favorites - "Metaphors," "Cat," "Daddy," "Lesbos," "Lady Lazurus," etc.
    • 4/5
      If she would have just hung on a year or two longer.
    • 5/5
      This is a beautiful collection of Plath's poetry. While the poems themselves are hit and miss, there's little denying the skill displayed there. My 5-star rating is related to the cross-section where the quality of her work meets the format of the book.

      This is a chronological collection, presenting her poetry in the order it was written - not in an order she set for it in a collection (such as was the case for The Colossus and Ariel), nor in an order reshuffled by a secondary set of hands after her death. There are some notes in the back for some of the poems - an exhaustive annotated version might be even better, but would get quickly unwieldy, in light of the amount of journals we have extant from Plath's life.

    • 3/5
      This was an intriguing and interesting collection of poetry. While many of them did not resonate with me, those that did were powerful and encompassing in their scope. Plath was a good poet, and she understood (and applied) her techniques and skill-set well. Who knows what she would have written had she not met her tragic fate.3 stars- worth reading!
    • 5/5
      Sylvia Plath did not win the Pulitize Prize undeservedly.

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    • 4/5
      “Love is a shadow.How you lie and cry after itListen: these are its hooves: it has gone off, like a horse.”This is Plath’s poetry. Sad, depressing & heart wrenching. If you are not in are in the middle of a tragic love affair or on the verge of breaking up; or if you are a sensitive soul, prone to being sucked in to a depressive literary spiral, stay away! Otherwise, wallow and weep, and come away knowing your life is better.
    • 5/5
      Valuable. Plath is one of the foremost women poets of the 20th century. This book is full of poetic treasure, though I would like to have seen it edited and designed better.

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    • 4/5
      Plath cut through the poetic drowse of the 60's like a knife. I first read her in mimeographed handouts, and then in a spread in the New Yorker..but by then she was dead. Precision, a great ear, a great mythos.

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    • 5/5
      What else can be said about this poor woman that hasn't been said before ad nauseum? Her poetry continues to speak volumes on its own. Gorgeous, life-shattering work. As is the cliche, I read her first in my melancholy teens, but she has echoed within me ever since. She is the reason I still read and love poetry, the reason I know that poetry can transform you.

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