THE JOURNALS OF SYLVIA PLATH - FOREWORD BY TED HUGHES
The electrifying diaries that are essential reading for anyone moved and fascinated by the life and work of one of America's most acclaimed poets.
Sylvia Plath began keeping a diary as a young child. By the time she was at Smith College, when this book begins, she had settled into a nearly daily routine with her journal, which was also a sourcebook for her writing. Plath once called her journal her "Sargasso," her repository of imagination, "a litany of dreams, directives, and imperatives," and in fact these pages contain the germs of most of her work. Plath's ambitions as a writer were urgent and ultimately all-consuming, requiring of her a heat, a fantastic chaos, even a violence that burned straight through her. The intensity of this struggle is rendered in her journal with an unsparing clarity, revealing both the frequent desperation of her situation and the bravery with which she faced down her demons.
SYLVIA PLATH
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. Plath 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.
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PLATH SYLVIA
Nació en 1932 en Boston, Massachussets, y falleció en 1963 en Londres. Además de ser una de las grandes poetas del siglo XX, publicó ensayos literarios y esta conmovedora novela autobiográfica, La campana de cristal, publicada por primera vez en 1963. De sus libros de poesía se destacan Ariel 1956 y El coloso y otros poemas 1960 . Estuvo casada con el escritor Ted Hughes, quien tras su muerte se encargó de la edición de su poesía completa. En 1982 ganó un Premio Pulitzer póstumo por The Collected Poems.
