Author
Sylvia Plath
1932–1963
Sylvia Plath (October 27, 1932 – February 11, 1963) was an American poet and author. She is credited with advancing the genre of confessional poetry and is best known for *The Colossus and Other Poems* (1960), *Ariel* (1965), and *The Bell Jar* (1963), a semi-autobiographical novel published one month before her death. *The Collected Poems* was published in 1981, which included previously unpublished works. For this collection Plath was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1982, making her the fourth person to receive this honor posthumously.
Born in Boston, Massachusetts, and educated at Smith College and Newham College, Cambridge, Plath met the poet Ted Hughs, whom she married in 1956. The couple settled permanently in England, and they had two children, a son and a daughter, before separating in 1962. She suffered from clinical depression for most of her adulthood, and lost her life to it in 1963.
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Books by Sylvia Plath
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The Bell Jar
Sylvia Plath, 1963
Ariel
Sylvia Plath, 1965
The Journals of Sylvia Plath
Ted Hughes, Francis McCullagh & others, 1982
The journals of Sylvia Plath, 1950-1962
Sylvia Plath, 2000
Collected Poems
Sylvia Plath, 1963
The Colossus and Other Poems
Sylvia Plath, 1960
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath, Karen V. Kukil & others, 2019
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The United States in Literature [with three long stories] -- Seventh Edition
James Edwin Miller, Carlota Cárdenas de Dwyer & others, 1952
Backpack Literature -- Fifth Edition
X. J. Kennedy, Dana Gioia & others, 2016
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--The American Experience
Kate Kinsella, Abigail Adams Smith & others, 1999
Crossing the Water
Sylvia Plath, 1971
Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams
Sylvia Plath, 1975
Letters Home
Sylvia Plath, 1975
The Bed Book
Sylvia Plath, 1976
Literature, The Human Experience, Reading and Writing--Shorter Ninth Edition
Richard Abcarian, Marvin Klotz & others, 2003
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Silver Level
Kate Kinsella, Kevin Feldman & others, 2002
Watch For The Light
Johann Christoph Blumhardt, Sylvia Plath & others, 2001
Sylvia Plath Poems
Sylvia Plath & Carol Ann Duffy, 2012
Prentice Hall Literature--The American Experience
Nance Davidson, Edward Abbey & others, 1989
The It-Doesn'T-Matter Suit
Sylvia Plath, 1996
Winter Trees
Sylvia Plath, 1971
The Bedford Introduction to Literature--Reading, Thinking, Writing--Sixth Edition
Michael Meyer, Margaret Atwood & others, 2002
Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath & Frieda Hughes, 2013
Sylvia Plath's Selected poems
Sylvia Plath, 1985
Plath
Sylvia Plath & Diane Wood Middlebrook, 1998
Elements of Literature - Third Canadian Edition
Robert Scholes, Nancy R. Comley & others, 2004
Diarios completos
Sylvia Plath, 2016
Exploring Literature -- Fourth Edition
Frank Madden, Kate Chopin & others, 2009
The Best American Short Stories 1973
Martha Foley, Donald Barthelme & others, 1973
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Reader's Companion--Silver
Prentice-Hall, inc. & others, 2002
The Collected Poems Of Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath, 2008
- Letters of Sylvia Plath Vol. 1Sylvia Plath, Karen Kukil & others
Letters of Sylvia Plath Vol. 1
Sylvia Plath, Karen Kukil & others, 2017
The Oxford Book of Women's Writing in the United States
Linda Wagner-Martin, Cathy N. Davidson & others, 1995
Literature - Structure, sound, and sense - Fourth Edition
Laurence Perrine, Thomas R. Arp & others, 1983
Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom: A Story
Sylvia Plath, 2019
Poesía portátil en femenino
Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton & others, 2021
- Cartas a Mi Madre / Letters HomeSylvia Plath
Cartas a Mi Madre / Letters Home
Sylvia Plath, 2024
Letters of Sylvia Plath Volume II
Sylvia Plath, 2018
Poems
Sylvia Plath & Ted Hughes, 2004
- A day in JuneSylvia Plath
A day in June
Sylvia Plath, 1981
The Writer's Resource - Second Edition
Susan Day, Elizabeth McMahan & others, 1988
Trio - Fourth Edition
Harold P. Simonson, William Faulkner & others, 1975
Mary Ventura e o Nono Reino
Sylvia Plath
La caja de los deseos
Sylvia Plath & Blanca Ortiz Ostal, 2017
- Wreath for a BridalSylvia Plath
Wreath for a Bridal
Sylvia Plath, 1970
It Doesn't Matter Suit and Other Stories
Sylvia Plath, 2015
- Soy Vertical Pero Preferira Ser HorizontalSylvia Plath
Soy Vertical Pero Preferira Ser Horizontal
Sylvia Plath, 2000
Stings
Sylvia Plath, 1982
Reading Sylvia Plath
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