The poems in
Winter Trees
were written in the last nine months of Sylvia Plath's life, and form part of the group from which the
Ariel
poems were chosen.
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). Plath's volume
Ariel
(1965) secured her reputation and her
Collected Poems
(1981), which contains poetry written from 1956 until her death, 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...
