Plath : poems

Plath, Sylvia. (Author). Middlebrook, Diane Wood. (Added Author).

Summary: Sylvia Plath's tragically abbreviated career as a poet began with work that was, in the words of one of her teachers, Robert Lowell, "formidably expert." It ended with a group of poems published after her suicide in 1963 which are, in the nakedness of their confessions, in their black humor, in their ferocious honesty about what people do to one another and to themselves, among the most harrowing lyrics in the English language - poems in which a magnificent, exquisitely disciplined literary gift has been brought to bear upon the unbearable. In these transfiguring poems, Plath managed the rarest of feats: she changed the direction and orientation of an art form.

Record details

ISBN: 9780375404641
ISBN: 0375404643 (alk. paper)
Physical Description: 255 pages ; 18 cm
Publisher: New York : Knopf ; 1998.

Content descriptions

General Note:

Includes index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Jilted -- Bluebeard -- Trio of Love Songs -- Lament -- Two Lovers and a Beachcomber by the Real Sea -- Epitaph in Three Parts -- Channel Crossing -- Ode for Ted -- Song for a Summer's Day -- Two Sisters of Persephone -- Faun -- Letter to a Purist -- Alicante Lullaby -- Wreath for a Bridal -- Fiesta Melons -- Spider -- Spinster -- Black Rook in Rainy Weather -- Hardcastle Crags -- The Lady and the Earthenware Head -- All the Dead Dears -- The Disquieting Muses -- Ouija -- On the Decline of Oracles -- Snakecharmer -- Mussel Hunter at Rock Harbor -- The Bull of Bendylaw -- Suicide off Egg Rock -- Metaphors -- Electra on Azalea Path -- The Beekeeper's Daughter -- Man in Black -- The Colossus -- Poem for a Birthday -- Who -- Dark House -- Maenad -- The Beast -- Flute Notes from a Reedy Pond -- Witch Burning -- The Stones -- Mushrooms -- You're -- The Hanging Man -- Stillborn -- Candles -- Zoo Keeper's Wife -- Face Lift -- Morning Song -- Barren Woman -- Heavy Women -- In Plaster -- Tulips -- I Am Vertical -- Blackberrying -- The Moon and the Yew Tree -- Mirror -- Three Women: A Poem for Three Voices -- Little Fugue -- An Appearance -- Crossing the Water -- Among the Narcissi -- Pheasant -- Elm -- The Rabbit Catcher -- Event -- The Other -- Words heard, by accident, over the phone -- Poppies in July -- Burning the Letters -- For a Fatherless Son -- A Birthday Present -- The Detective -- The Courage of Shutting-Up -- The Bee Meeting -- The Arrival of the Bee Box -- Stings -- The Swarm -- Wintering -- The Applicant -- Daddy -- Medusa -- Fever 103[degree] -- Amnesiac -- Cut -- By Candlelight -- Ariel -- Poppies in October -- Nick and the Candlestick -- Lady Lazarus -- Death & Co. -- Winter Trees -- Childless Woman -- Sheep in Fog -- The Munich Mannequins -- Totem -- Child -- Paralytic -- Gigolo -- Mystic -- Kindness -- Words -- Contusion -- Balloons -- Edge -- Notes on Poems 1956-1963.