The end product for her was not so much a successful poem, as something that had temporarily exhausted her ingenuity. Her attitude to her verse was artisan-like: if she couldn't get a table out of the material, she was quite happy to get a chair, or even a toy. The Collected Poems (Plath) by Sylvia Plath Collected Poems (Stevens). With one or two exceptions, she brought every piece she worked on to some final form acceptable to her, rejecting at most the odd verse, or a false head or a false tail. Among the numerous literary works titled Collected Poems are the following. The poet's sharp intellect consistently is interesting, but her early collections read as less forceful and breathtaking than her later ones with age, Plath moved away from the stiff but accomplished formalism of her early poetry toward a risk-taking aesthetic of the theatrical. To my knowledge, she never scrapped any of her poetic efforts. Pulitzer Prize winner Sylvia Plath's complete poetic works, edited and introduced by Ted Hughes.īy the time of her death on 11, February 1963, Sylvia Plath had written a large bulk of poetry.
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