Sylvia Plath "Collected Poems"- A Review

Sylvia Plath wrote an enormous body of work by the time she was thirty and the "Collected Poems" contains all of her poetry. This book won the Pulitzer Prize and is all encompassing. Sylvia Plath's juvenilia is included as well as some of her notes.The late great poet Sylvia Plath did not attain her legendary literary status in her lifetime, but her writing speaks for itself. The work, "Collected Poems" contains all of her literary greatness aside from her short stories and novel, "The Bell Jar." Plath's poems from "The Collosus" and "Ariel," which she wrote shortly before her suicide and launched her literary fame, are all included in this fine book. Any Sylvia Plath fan without the "Collected Poems" is truly missing out and anyone who loves modern poetry must have this collection of work.The poems are dated and one can see the progress and transformations Plath's writing undergoes as she matures and finds her own unique poetic voice and tone. Many of her earlier poems
are somewhat light hearted but many of her later poems take on her darkly menacing and troubled voice. Plath's two most famous poems, "Daddy" and "Lady Lazarus," are included as well.The work was edited by Ted Hughes, her former husband and fellow literary great poet. Ted Hughes as well writes the introduction and explains how Plath wrote her poetry, the effort she put into the writing process and how her works were published.The work even has a collection of titles and first lines as well as fifty of her very early poems. Evidently, Plath held on to all of her work and Ted Hughes was left in charge of her writing and he put together this amazing book.Sylvia Plath and her poems loom large in the modern poetry literary world and the poet has a kind of cult following among readers. The "Collected Poems" is a must have for anyone who enjoys modern poetry and anyone claiming to be a fan of Sylvia Plath. This book contains most if not all of her poetry and cannot be claimed
unworthy of the Pulitzer Prize.

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