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Sylvia Plath was one of the defining voices of twentieth-century poetry, and one of the most appealing: few other poets have introduced as many new readers to poetry. Though she published just one collection in her lifetime, The Colossus, and a novel, "The Bell Jar", it was following her death in 1963 that her work began to garner the wider audience that it deserved. The manuscript that she left behind, Ariel, was published in 1965 under the editorship of her former husband, Ted Hughes, as were two later volumes, "Crossing the Water" and "Winter Trees" in 1971, which helped to make Sylvia Plath a household name. Hughes' careful curation of Plath's work extended to a Collected Poems and a Selected Poems in the 1980s, which remain in print today and stand testimony to the 'profound respect' that Frieda Hughes said her father had for her mother's work. It was not until the publication of a 'restored' Ariel in 2004 that readers were able to appraise Plath's own selection and arrangement of her work. This edition of the poems, chosen by the Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy, offers a fresh selection of Sylvia Plath's poetry to stand in parallel to the existing editions. Introduced with an inviting preface, the book is essential reading for those new to and already familiar with the work of this most extraordinary poet.

Ariel (1965) contains many of Sylvia Plath's best known poems written in an extraordinary burst of creativity just before her death in 1963. The first of four collections to be published by Faber & Faber, it is the volume on which her reputation as one of the most original, daring and gifted poets of the twentieth century rests. What a thrill - My thumb instead of an onion. The top quite gone Except for a sort of hinge - Cut.

Dibujos presenta una faceta poco conocida de la genial poeta Sylvia Plath. A lo largo de toda su vida, el arte fue una profunda fuente de inspiración, como muestran las ilustraciones a pluma y tinta recogidas en este libro.Esta obra arroja luz sobre esos años felices, cuando Plath conocio y se caso secretamente con Ted Hughes, y juntos viajaron a Paris y a España en su luna de miel, años antes de que ella escribiera su novela La campana de cristal. Incluye dibujos de Inglaterra, Francia, España y Estados Unidos, en los que captura sus exquisitas observaciones del mundo.Sus dibujos van acompañados de cartas y un diario de notas que añaden profundidad y contexto a la obra de la gran poeta, asi como una introduccion escrita por su hija, Frieda Hughes.

La presente edición bilingue de su Poesía completa es la primera que se realiza en el ámbito hispanoamericano.Al acercarnos a la poesía de Sylvia Plath, debemos tener muy presente que, si bien el hecho de conocer los detalles de su vida nos ayuda a comprender y a "traducir" sus poemas, ello no explica, en modo alguno, el poderío de éstos. En Plath es fundamental separar sus logros estéticos de su biografía, de la cual no dependen ni en la forma ni en el fondo. Podemos abordar esta Poesía completa como una mera "confesión" de su autora, pero, al hacerlo, estamos prejuzgando lo que leemos y, peor aún, nos estamos perdiendo otros significados mucho más relevantes y reveladores. Porque Plath, como Trakl o Pizarnik, no debe en absoluto su fama al hecho de haberse quitado la vida sino a que en su obra los acontecimientos están absorbidos, transfigurados por la función universalizadora del mito, y a que fue una poeta cuya imaginación, inteligencia, lenguaje, oficio y apertura al inconsciente alcanzaron un extraordinario grado de desarrollo. Virtudes que tan sólo podemos hallar en los grandes creadores. XOÁN ABELEIRA

Esther Greenwood is at college and is fighting two battles, one against her own desire for perfection in all things - grades, boyfriend, looks, career - and the other against remorseless mental illness. As her depression deepens she finds herself encased in it, bell-jarred away from the rest of the world. This is the story of her journey back into reality. Highly readable, witty and disturbing, The Bell Jar is Sylvia Plath's only novel and was originally published under a pseudonym in 1963. What it has to say about what women expect of themselves, and what society expects of women, is as sharply relevant today as it has always been. 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. 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.

Sylvia Plath (1932-63) possessed one of the most commanding voices in twentieth-century poetry. She published only one volume of verse, "The Colossus", during her life and a single novel, "The Bell Jar". After her death "Winter Trees", "Crossing the Water" and, most notably, the remarkable poems in "Ariel", brought her posthumous fame. Sylvia Plath (1932-63) possessed one of the most commanding voices in twentieth-century poetry. She published only one volume of verse, "The Colossus", during her life and a single novel, "The Bell Jar". After her death "Winter Trees", "Crossing the Water" and, most notably, the remarkable poems in "Ariel", brought her both posthumous fame and a readership that continues today. Subsequently, her "Collected Poems" won the Pulitzer Prize and, on publication, her Journals provided an insight into the life that was the basis for her work. Other volumes in this series, include: "Auden", "Betjemen", "Eliot", "Hughes", and "Yeats".

Sylvia Plath nació en Jamaica Plain, Massachussets y puso fin a su vida en Londres. Publicó en vida una novela, The Bell Jar (La campana de cristal) , y un libro de poemas, The Colossus and Other Poems , peo sus obras más destacadas aparecieron póstumamente, publicadas por su ex-marido, el también poeta Ted Hughes. Su Correspondencia y sus Diarios , parcialmente publicados también póstumamente, han enriquecido la imagen de esta poeta, a lo que contribuyó también, poco antes de morir, Hughes, con su libro Birthday Letters ( Cartas de cumpleaños ). Árboles en invierno comprende dos partes; la segunda, Three Women es un diálogo poemático entre tres voces femeninas - tres mujeres en su maternidad -, estrenado en la BBC unos meses antes de la muerte de su autora. Intensa y desgarrada, la poesía de Sylvia Plath no ha cesado de interesar a lectoras y lectores desde su muerte, y es una referencia obligada en el panorama lírico norteamericano de la segunda mitad del siglo XX.

Sylvia Plath's correspondence, addressed chiefly to her mother, from her time at Smith College in the early 1950s up to her suicide in London in February 1963. In addition to her capacity for domestic and writerly happiness, these letters also hint at her potential for deep despair. One wonders just how fully or well this prolix collection of letters, written primarily to Sylvia Plath's mother - editor Aurelia Schober Plath who also contributes a commentary - will serve as autobiography, as amplification, or as anything except externalization of details on that short life which ended with a posthumous question mark. Here Mrs. Plath, claiming some 'sort of psychic osmosis' with her daughter, clearly plays a most devoted role and for the first two thirds of this voluble confessional, Sylvia seems to be writing to her on a girlish high. The letters (those to her brother really say more) are effusive with wonderfuls and thrillings and 'How can I bear the joy of it all.' Even later after her marriage to Ted Hughes they embarrass - 'everything I do with and for Ted has a celestial radiance.' In between, they are a documentary of her work from poems to short stories to the infrequently mentioned novels (including the one she intended as a 'potboiler') and the increasing recognition both she and Ted received with publication, grants, teaching positions, etc., etc. Then come the difficult times (excluded from the Letters Home) when Sylvia was raddled by the two children, the miscarriage in between, the attrition of her creativity, and the harassments of the simple domesticity she used to enjoy and the babies she still loved. After the separation/divorce, Sylvia indicates that she is determined to survive alone, securing the flat in Yeats' house, buying clothes and a new fashionable exterior. (One wonders whether Alvarez' contention that she ended her life 'carelessly and by mistake' might not be right.) But there are those darker moments when she wrote - feverishly - the final poems which would be 'the best poems of my life, they will make my name.' For the most part the correspondence is a less than revealing testimony (her admiration of Ted is unbounded; later after the 'hurtful' time, almost the only allusion, her discretion is absolute), but there will be many to read it - not only th

Sylvia Plath nació en Boston en 1932. En 1950 entró en el prestigioso Smith College para cursar literatura: era una alumna ejemplar, brillante (ya publicaba poemas y relatos en diversas revistas), que ambicionaba ser popular y, sin embargo, en 1953 protagonizo un intento de suicidio. Dos años despues, se graduo y obtuvo una beca Fulbright para ampliar estudios en la Universidad de Cambridge (Reino Unido). Alli conocio al tambien poeta Ted Hughes, con quien se caso y tuvo dos hijos; seis años despues se separaban. En 1963, Sylvia Plath se suicido en su piso de Londres. En vida publico el libro de poemas El coloso (1960) y la novela autobiografica La campana de cristal (1963). Tras su muerte aparecieron Ariel (1965) y Cruzando el agua (1971). En 1981, la edicion de su Poesia completa merecio el premio Pulitzer. La presente seleccion quiere dar a conocer al lector de habla castellana poemas no traducidos previamente o que no estaban al alcance del gran publico de una de las voces clave de la poesia del siglo XX. Encuadernacion: rustica.

Plath's poetry is characterized by bold metaphors, heightened language, and violent imagery. Intensely autobiographical, they detail her angry struggles with her own mental disturbances and with the

Plath's best-known collection of poems which "established her reputation with its courageous and controlled treatment of extreme and painful states of mind".

This was the only book of Plath's poetry published in her lifetime. These early poems are formal in structure and meticulously crafted.