Sylvia Plath
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.
A Sylvia Plath Timeline
Books by Sylvia Plath
The Bell Jar Poster
Designed in 1966 by Faber and Faber / Shirley Tucker. Printed at high quality colour on 150gsm silk matt paper. The image is surrounded by a white border and is ...
Ariel
Sylvia Plath
The poems in Sylvia Plath's Ariel , including many of her best-known such as 'Lady Lazarus', 'Daddy' and 'Fever 103 degrees', were all written between the publication in 1960 of ...
Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath
In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their ...
The Colossus
Sylvia Plath
Originally published in 1960, The Colossus was the only volume of Sylvia Plath's poetry published during her lifetime. Showing a scholarly dedication to the craft, the poems in this ...
Ariel: The Restored Edition
Sylvia Plath
Upon the publication of her posthumous volume of poetry, Ariel, in the mid-1960s, Sylvia Plath became a household name. Readers may be surprised to learn that the draft of Ariel ...
The Bell Jar
Sylvia Plath
When Esther Greenwood wins an internship on a New York fashion magazine in 1953, she is elated, believing she will finally realise her dream to become a writer. But in ...
Selected Poems of Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath
When Sylvia Plath's Ariel was published posthumously, A. Alvarez in the Observer wrote: 'If the poems are despairing, vengeful and destructive, they are at the same time tender, open ...
Collected Poems
Sylvia Plath
This volume contains all Sylvia Plath's mature poetry written from 1956 up to her death in 1963.
The text is preceded by an introduction by Ted Hughes and followed ...
Sylvia Plath
Tim Kendall
Sylvia Plath was one of the most gifted and innovative poets of the twentieth century, yet serious study of her work has often been hampered by a fierce preoccupation with ...
The Journals of Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath
'Everything that passes before her eyes travels down from brain to pen with shattering clarity - 1950s New England, pre-co-ed Cambridge, pre-mass tourism Benidorm, where she and Hughes honeymooned, the birth ...
Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams
Sylvia Plath
From her mid-teens Sylvia Plath wrote stories, at first easily and successfully, but then with increasing difficulty as the demands of her real vision complicated her growing ambition to make ...
Collected Children's Stories
Sylvia Plath
A new collection containing the poet Sylvia Plath's work for children.
These three stories for younger children are full of imagination, energy and humour. 'Mrs Cherry's Kitchen' appears ...
Sylvia Plath: Chosen by Carol Ann Duffy
Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath was one of the defining voices of twentieth-century poetry, and one of the most appealing: few other poets have introduced as many new readers to poetry. Though she ...
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