The Collected Poems

I bought The Collected Poems Sylvia Plath because I wanted to explore Plath's work. I don't remember reading Plath's work before, but several of the poems had a familiar feel to them so I must have read her at some point. As I read, I often felt an eerie connection to the words on the page. At times they felt like they mirrored thoughts and feelings I'd had about experiences in my own life. At other times I struggled to even make sense of the poems, but even those poems had a haunting essence to them. Plath used life itself to paint emotions and feelings and observations on the words she chose to put on the page. This collection includes a section after the main book of poems she wrote when she was younger. Those poems had a naivete that offered an unexpected rawness in their more traditional form and choice of words. I highly recommend The Collected Poems Sylvia Plath for anyone who is interested in Plath's work or in poetry in general. The Collected Poems Sylvia Plath is a great read filled with thought-provoking, emotionally challenging, and overall engaging poetry.

If you love Sylvia Plath This book should be in your collection. I highly recommend!

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To me, a reader unsatisfied with this collected edition would be hard to understand. The volume is physically compact and includes all the poems from 1956 to her death. According to Ted Hughes, the editor, these are the ones the poet wanted to preserve. Hughes has also included fifty earlier poems under the heading "Juvenilia". He describes the juvenilia, accurately in my opinion, at times "intensely artificial", but "always lit with her unique excitement... And that sense of a deep mathematical inevitability in the sound and texture of her lines was well developed quite early. One can see here, too, how exclusively her writing depended on a supercharged system of inner symbols and images, an enclosed cosmic circus." I would call this an accurate summary. I have been reading Plath in conjunction with "Chapters in a Mythology" by Judith Kroll, which for all of the poems explores this cosmic circus very well. The key word here is "enclosed", and as one reads further, the sense of enclosure eventually turns into claustrophobia. Consumer notes: I bought a "hardbound" copy. It is not really hardbound, but just a paperback cased in uncommonly thick boards.

Purchased this for a family member. This author has a very interesting history which makes reading this even more intriguing.

I am one of those people who adores Plath's writing. The Bell Jar is one of my favorite novels, but her poems far surpass her gift as a novelist. Plath was a master with words and her poetry shows how she finely plucked each word from the branches of her mind to make some of the beautiful prose I've ever read. She is raw and unafraid in her poetry which is her gift to the world. We are allowed to experience these raw emotions as she did without hesitation which not many people are bold enough to do. I would definitely recommend this book, but if you are easily flustered or prefer happy poetry, you may want to read someone else instead. Perhaps ee cummings or Lucille Clifton-- their words are beautiful and open, but without all the self-loathing, anger and death talk. ;)

I already own this book and I love her poetry. I was able to share them with someone special with this delivery.

Arrived in perfect condition! I am overjoyed to have Sylvia on my nightstand to keep me company when I have insomnia at 3am.

Sobre a obra, não há reclamação alguma, se você gosta de Sylvia Plath, essa é a coletânea ideal. O problema é que o tipo de papel usado é de uma qualidade não tão boa, tornando assim o manuseio do livro uma atividade que exige cuidado e delicadeza.

Sehr schönes Buch mit den Werken von Sylvia Plath. Immer direkt, ehrlich, und etwas zynisch. Obwohl ich sehr gut Englisch kann, muss ich oft Wörter nachschlagen. Man lernt nie aus!

Sylvia Plath, c'est une vie trop brève, une sensibilité exacerbée, une oeuvre poignante... Ses poèmes sont d'une puissance extraordinaire. Chaque mot est une flèche décochée qui vient se ficher au plus profond de votre coeur, vous arrache une larme, un soupir - c'en est douloureux de beauté. Les images qui se dessinent au creux des vers sont d'une incroyable présence - là, vibrantes, au plus près de vous. Sylvia Plath est pleine de surprise, insaisissable: sa poésie est d'une extraordinaire diversité. Et le plus merveilleux, c'est que tous ses poèmes (poèmes d'occasion, paysages, conversations imaginaires, portrait d'un père, etc. etc.), en vers libres, ont cette même force en commun. A lire les jours gris, au fond du puits, quand on a l'impression qu'il ne reste plus rien - pour que le soleil brille à nouveau dans l'obscurité. Sur l'edition "The Collected Poems", présentée par Ted Hughes: lecture très agréable (espace), poèmes apparaissant dans l'ordre chronologique, ce qui permet de suivre au plus près l'évolution de la poésie de Plath.

Was asked for as a gift. Recipient was happy

L'ho preso per mia figlia che frequenta la quinta liceo linguistico e le è piaciuto molto