Sylvia Plath - Selected Poems - Couverture souple

Plath, Sylvia

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0571135862 ISBN 13 : 9780571135868

Editeur : Faber & Faber, 2003

Synopsis

Sylvia Plath is one of the defining voices in twentieth-century poetry. This classic selection of her work, made by her former husband Ted Hughes, provides the perfect introduction to this most influential of poets. The poems are taken from Sylvia Plath's four collections Ariel, The Colossus, Crossing the Water and Winter Trees, and include many of her most celebrated works, such as 'Daddy', 'Lady Lazarus' and 'Wuthering Heights'.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Sylvia Plath (1932-63) was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and studied at Smith College. In 1955 she went to Cambridge University on a Fulbright scholarship, where she met and later married Ted Hughes. She published one collection of poems in her lifetime, The Colossus (1960), and a novel, The Bell Jar (1963). Her Collected Poems, which contains her poetry written from 1956 until her death, was published in 1981 and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry.

Ted Hughes (1930-1998) was born in Yorkshire. His first book, The Hawk in the Rain, was published in 1957 by Faber & Faber and was followed by many volumes of poetry and prose for adults and children. He received the Whitbread Book of the Year for two consecutive years for his last published collections of poetry, Tales from Ovid and Birthday Letters. He was Poet Laureate from 1984, and in 1998 he was appointed to the Order of Merit.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Faber & Faber
• Date d'édition: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0571135862
• ISBN 13: 9780571135868
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 96
• Éditeur: Hughes Ted
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