The Collected Poems

This volume contains all Sylvia Plaths mature poetry written from up to her death in The text is preceded by an introduction by Ted Hughes and followed by notes and comments on individual poems There is also an appendix containing fifty poems from Sylvia Plaths juvenilia For me the most important literary event of has been the publication eighteen years after her death of Sylvia Plaths Collected Poems confirming her as one of the most powerful and lavishly gifted poets of our time A Alvarez in the Observer This collection was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry