plath, sylvia

A restored edition of Sylvia Plath's collection of poems that were published after her death that restores the selection and arrangement of the poems as Plath left them at the point of her death.

Presents a collection of correspondence written from 1956 through 1963 by twentieth-century American poet Sylvia Plath.

"A . . . biography of Sylvia Plath focuses on her . . . literary and intellectual growth and achievement . . . Clark presents new materials about Plath's scientist father, her juvenile writings, and her psychiatric treatment, and evokes a culture in transition in the mid-twentieth century, in the shadow of the atom bomb and the Holocaust, as she explores Sylvia's world: her early relationships and determination not to become a conventional woman and wife; her conflicted ties to her well-meaning, widowed mother; her troubles at the hands of an unenlightened mental health industry; her Cambridge years and thunderclap meeting with Ted Hughes, a marriage of true minds that would change the course of poetry in English; and much more . . ."--Provided by publisher.

The author interprets the people, events, influences and art that made up the brief life of Sylvia Plath.

Devastated by her parents' decision to split up, pressured by her boyfriend to have sex, and saddled with a case of chicken pox, fifteen-year-old Keek finds consolation in her beloved, well-worn copy of Sylvia Plath's "The Bell Jar.".

The story of the tumultuous relationship of poets Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes.

A selection of critical essays and reviews on the work of the American poet.

Presents a collection of correspondence written from 1940 through 1956 by twentieth-century American poet Sylvia Plath.

Excerpts from the journals of Sylvia Plath, from her student years at Smith College through her marriage to Ted Hughes.