Product Description

A new edition of Sylvia Plath's Pulitzer Prize-winning Collected Poems, edited and with an introduction by Ted Hughes

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #48079 in Books
• Published on: 2008-09-01
• Released on: 2008-09-02
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 384 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9780061558894
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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About the Author

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.

Customer Reviews

Valuable for the Plath-Addict
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 But this book has a large number of unpublished poems, and poems that were published but not selected for those collections.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.

A bit disappointed...
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.