The Journals of Sylvia Plath
| Author: | Sylvia Plath |
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| Publisher: | Faber & Faber |
| Format: | Paperback |
| No. of Pages: | 768 |
| Genre: | Non-Fiction |
28 USD
Synopsis
The Journals of Sylvia Plath offers an intimate portrait of the author of the extraordinary poems for which Plath is so widely loved, but it is also characterized by a prose of vigorous immediacy which places it alongside The Bell Jar as a work of literature. These exact and complete transcriptions of the journals kept by Plath for the last twelve years of her life – covering her marriage to Ted Hughes and her struggle with depression – are a key source for the poems which make up her collections Ariel and The Colossus.
Author
Sylvia Plath (1932–63) was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and studied at Smith College. In 1955 she went to Cambridge University on a Fulbright scholarship, where she met and later married Ted Hughes. She published one collection of poems in her lifetime, The Colossus (1960), and a novel, The Bell Jar (1963). Her Collected Poems, which contains her poetry written from 1956 until her death, was published in 1981 and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry.
