Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) was one of the writers who defined the course of twentieth-century poetry. Alongside a selection of photographs and Plath's own drawings, they masterfully contextualise what the pages disclose.
This later correspondence witnesses Plath and Hughes becoming major, influential contemporary writers, as it happened.
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). 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...
