Features poems such as 'Lady Lazarus', 'Daddy', 'Edge' and 'Paralytic', which were all written between the publication in 1960 of Sylvia Plath's first book, The Colossus, and her death in 1963.
Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) 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);
Ariel
was published posthumously in 1965. 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.
Sylvia Plath was een Amerikaanse dichteres en schrijfster, bekend om haar intense en persoonlijke gedichten. Haar werk wordt vaak gekenmerkt door thema's als isolatie, angst en depressie. Haar bekendste werk, "Ariel", is postuum gepubliceerd en wordt be...
