- Poema, Poetry, English poetry, Women authors
"Contains in sequence all the poetry written by the author from 1956 until her suicide in 1963, together with fifty selections from her pre-1956 work."
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Character-led, spare, earnest and classical in form.
- character-ledplot-driven
- sparerichly built
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- contemplativerelentless
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About the book
- Author
- Sylvia Plath
- First published
- 1981
- Pages
- 351
- Publisher
- Harper & Row, Tandem Library, HarperPerennial
- Editions
- 13
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781568497037
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“Through portico of my elegant house you stalk”
Sylvia Plath (October 27, 1932 – February 11, 1963) was an American poet and author. She is credited with advancing the genre of confessional poetry and is best known for *The Colossus and Other Poems* (1960), *Ariel* (1965), and *The Bell Jar* (1963), a semi-autobiographical novel published one month before her death. *The Collected Poems* was published in 1981, which included previously unpublished works. For this collection Plath was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1982, making her the fourth person to receive this honor posthumously. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, and educated at Smith College and Newham College, Cambridge, Plath met the poet Ted Hughs, whom she married in 1956. T
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