Colossus: And Other Poems by Sylvia Plath

Colossus: And Other Poems

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Colossus: And Other Poems by Sylvia Plath

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Colossus: And Other Poems

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With this startling, exhilarating book of poems, which was first published in 1960, Sylvia Plath burst into literature with spectacular force. - "[Her poems] have that exquisite, heart-breaking quality about them that has made Sylvia Plath our acknowledged Queen of Sorrows." --Joyce Carol Oates, The New York Times

In such classics as "The Beekeeper's Daughter," "The Disquieting Muses," "I Want, I Want," and "Full Fathom Five," she writes about sows and skeletons, fathers and suicides, about the noisy imperatives of life and the chilly hunger for death.

Graceful in their craftsmanship, wonderfully original in their imagery, and presenting layer after layer of meaning, the forty poems in The Colossus are early artifacts of genius that still possess the power to move, delight, and shock.
Book Details
Publisher:
Vintage
ISBN:
9780375704468
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
96
Authors:
Sylvia Plath
Published Date:
1998-05-19
Language:
English
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About Sylvia Plath

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).

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