SUMMARY: This definitive poetry collection, originally published in 1954 to honor Stevens on his 75th birthday, contains:- "Harmonium"- "Ideas of Order"- "The Man With the Blue Guitar"- "Parts of the World"- "Transport Summer"- "The Auroras of Autumn"- "The Rock"
The Collected Poems
β Scribed by Sylvia Plath
- Book ID
- 115171864
- Publisher
- HarperCollinsPublishers
- Year
- 2016
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 591 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780062669452
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β¦ Synopsis
Pulitzer Prize winner Sylvia Plathβs complete poetic works, edited and introduced by Ted Hughes.
By the time of her death on 11, February 1963, Sylvia Plath had written a large bulk of poetry. To my knowledge, she never scrapped any of her poetic efforts. With one or two exceptions, she brought every piece she worked on to some final form acceptable to her, rejecting at most the odd verse, or a false head or a false tail. Her attitude to her verse was artisan-like: if she couldnβt get a table out of the material, she was quite happy to get a chair, or even a toy. The end product for her was not so much a successful poem, as something that had temporarily exhausted her ingenuity. So this book contains not merely what verse she saved, butβafter 1956βall she wrote. β Ted Hughes, from the Introduction
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