- Paperback: 352 pages
- Publisher: Faber And Faber Ltd.; First Printing edition (Aug 27 2002)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0571118380
- ISBN-13: 978-0571118380
- Product Dimensions: 21.4 x 13.8 x 2.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 458 g
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (23 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #95,671 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Sylvia Plath died in 1963, and even now her outsize persona threatens to bury her poetry--the numerous biographies and studies often drawing the reader toward anecdote and away from the work. It's a relief to turn to the poems themselves and once more be jolted by their strange beauty, hard-wrought originality, and acetylene anger. "It is a heart, / This holocaust I walk in, / O golden child the world will kill and eat." While the juvenilia and poems written before 1960 that Ted Hughes has included here prefigure Plath's later obsessions, they also enable us to witness her turn from thesaurus-heavy verse to stripped-down art as they gather power through raw simplicity. "The blood jet is poetry. / There is no stopping it," she declares in "Kindness."
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The aim of the present complete edition, which contains a numbered sequence of the 224 poems written after 1956 together with a further 50 poems chosen from her pre-1956 work, is to bring Sylvia Plath's poetry together in one volume, including the various uncollected and unpublished pieces, and to set everything in as true a chronological order as is possible, so that the whole progress and achievement of this unusual poet will become accessible to readers.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Collection Tracks the Course of a Genius's Rise and Fall,
By Mike Sturdevant (Los Angeles, CA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Collected Poems (Hardcover)
Anyone who has not discovered Plath's poetry-- distinctly superior to her prose-- would be greatly served to seek out a slim volume called "Crossing the Water." This haunting collection features most of her greatest poems from what I think to be her most creative years: 1957-1959. If these don't grab you, then give up on her altogether. However, the Collected Poems are the inevitable place to continue since they include her early promising works, as well as those dark pithy gems that characterize her bitterly twisted slide into the furthest reaches of her capacity for cynicism and despair. A superb collection.
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There is just something about Sylvia Plath,
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This review is from: The Collected Poems (Perfect Paperback)
Gosh, I love Sylvia Plath's prose and poetry. I could read and reread some of her poems again and again. This is a great collection of her poems. I keep this book loose on my bookshelf when I feel like getting shivers up my spine before I go to sleep. There are some poems that I can just read and reread over and over again that make me feel... oh, mysterious, anxious, happy, perplexed... and Sylvia Plath is one of the poets who has written multiple poems that give me those feelings. Most people who like poetry are familiar with Mirror or Daddy, but there are other poems that people don't know about. I loved the sonnet "To Time" and the poem "Mystic." It is interesting to read her poems knowing what she was going through... reading the poems that coincide with certain events in her life, like her marriage to Ted Hughes, and poems that she wrote about her attempted suicides. I suggest this collection to anyone who is interested in this woman... and I also recommend that you read The Bell Jar as you read her poems, or maybe a few of her journal entries. Sylvia Plath is one of those poets that writes about herself, and knowing background on her life is crucial in understanding these poems. Well, you can decide for yourself.
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All Any Fan Should Need,
This review is from: The Collected Poems (Perfect Paperback)
For any fan of Plath's work, this is a must have. Collecting all her major work, this edition, though not collecting every poem, still collects all anyone could hope to have in one collection without having a complete edition, which doesn't exist yet. Don't waste time with the smaller editions of her work. Go for the whole motion with this one. Sure Ted Hughes put it together. Don't hold it against him. Whether you like him or not, Plath's work surpasses his work as an editor.
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