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The Colossus: Poems

The Colossus: Poems

by SylviaPlath (Author)

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 96
 Edition: Reprint
 Publisher: Faber and Faber
Published: 31 Aug 1987
ISBN 10: 0571098649
ISBN 13: 9780571098644

Media Reviews
[Her poems] have that exquisite, heart-breaking quality about them that hasmade Sylvia Plath our acknowledged Queen of Sorrows, the spokeswoman for our mostprivate, most helpless nightmares. . . . Her poetry is as deathly as it is impeccable; it enchants us almost as powerfully as it must have enchanted her. --Joyce Carol Oates, The New York Times Sylvia Plath's eye is sharp . . . and her wits responsive to what she sees. --Richard Howard, Poetry ... The Colossus, which appeared earlier in England to unusual acclaim [was] her first volume to be published in America. Certainly the praise bestowed on her by British critics is warranted; Sylvia Plath is indeed a rare talent and a consummate craftsman...her powerful poems crackle and smolder with energy. --Guy Owen, Books Abroad She steers clear of feminine charm, deliciousness, gentility, supersensitivity and the act of being a poet. She simply writes good poetry. --Al Alvarez, London Observer From the Trade Paperback edition.
Author Bio
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). 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.