A new edition of Sylvia Plath's Pulitzer Prize-winning Collected Poems, edited and with an introduction by Ted Hughes
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Sylvia Plath was born in 1932 in Massachusetts. Her books include the poetry collections The Colossus, Crossing the Water, Winter Trees, Ariel, and The 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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10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
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This review is from: The Collected Poems (P.S.) (Paperback)
I thought I owned all the poems she had because I had "Crossing the Water", "The Colossus", and "Ariel". But this book has a large number of unpublished poems, and poems that were published but not selected for those collections. In addition, the footnotes and commentary by her husband Ted Hughes are invaluable and fascinating. A must for Plath scholars and fans.
15 of 20 people found the following review helpful:
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A bit disappointed...,
This review is from: The Collected Poems (P.S.) (Paperback)
I was eagerly expecting this book.
The poetry of Plath does not need any more praises, for her name and fame already bring with themselves all the admiration from the critics and the public alike, amassed in time with sustained ardour. But what did negatively surprised me for a book of collected poems from such a renowned author was the overall quality of the volume's presentation. The paper severely lacks in quality. It's of course darker than the usual good quality paper and it is a bit coarse. I would've probably suggested a laminated book cover, rather than the plain and frail paperback, which can easily get stained (and you couldn't clean it as efficiently as a laminated one), if not a hardback. My opinion always was that the presentation of a book should at least try to come close to the art of an author's creation. But this certainly isn't the case here. I'm disappointed. I give with all one's heart 5 stars to the poetry of Sylvia Plath, and also to the introduction and notes, and 1 star to the quality of the book. If it would be possible to Amazon to introduce two kind of item rates: one for the writer's efficacy as a literary craftsman and another one for the book's presentation.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Disquieting Muse,
This review is from: The Collected Poems (P.S.) (Paperback)
This is work of the highest potency. Stephen King, Joyce Carol Oates, Toni
Morrison, and even Madonna have all mentioned reading her. As a Salon.com writer put it, "if we could bottle her verse, it would be the strongest brew in the bar." Some of Plath's phrases stand in the lyrical company of Yeats, her imagery in the company of Rimbaud -- but the mournful obsessiveness, lit with fury, is hers alone. Her late work is a de Chirico landscape come to life. "The Moon and the Yew Tree" is like reading a Van Gogh. Take the journey. Start off casually, flipping through to find the shorter poems. Then, find yourself addicted until you're reading the dense early work and the juvenilia, fiending for just one more hit of the imagery and phrasing that goes off like a firecracker "through the black amnesias of heaven." This is the poet who wrote "where spilt lives congeal and stiffen to history." That's what you're dealing with. Plath is the most Disquieting Muse.
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