The Collected Poems

Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) was born in Boston, Massachusetts. She graduated summa cum laude from Smith College and held a Fulbright Scholarship at Newnham College, Cambridge, where she met Ted Hughes. Her only collection published in her lifetime, The Colossus and Other Poems (Heinemann, 1960), was followed posthumously by Ariel (1965). The Collected Poems (Harper and Row, 1981), edited by Hughes, received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1982, awarded posthumously. She also wrote the autobiographical novel The Bell Jar (1963).