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Sylvia Plath

Biography

Sylvia Plath

Sylvia Plath was born in 1932 in Massachusetts. Her books include the poetry collections THE COLOSSUS, CROSSING THE WATER, WINTER TREES, ARIEL and COLLECTED POEMS, which won the Pulitzer Prize. A complete and uncut facsimile edition of ARIELwas published in 2004 with her original selection and arrangement of poems. She was married to the poet Ted Hughes, with whom she had a daughter, Frieda, and a son, Nicholas. She died in London in 1963.

Sylvia Plath

Books by Sylvia Plath

by Sylvia Plath

Between the first and last words of this remarkable collection, between love and life, between the infant's "clear vowels" of "Morning Song" and the final poem's "white skull" and "Words dry and riderless," Sylvia Plath created an unprecedented poetic vision. First published in England in 1964, and in the United States a year later, Ariel was, in the words of then-editor Frances McCullough, "a sensation." The impact of these poems in England and America alike was astonishing.