The Journals of Sylvia Plath, 1950-1962 Transcribed from the Original Manuscripts at Smith College

The Journals of Sylvia Plath offers an intimate portrait of the author of the extraordinary poems for which Plath is so widely loved, but it is also characterized by a prose of vigorous immediacy which places it alongside The Bell Jar as a work of literature. These exact and complete transcriptions of the journals kept by Plath for the last twelve years of her life - covering her marriage to Ted Hughes and her struggle with depression - are a key source for the poems which make up her collections Ariel and The Colossus.'Everything that passes before her eyes travels down from brain to pen with shattering clarity - 1950s New England, pre-co-ed Cambridge, pre-mass tourism Benidorm, where she and Hughes honeymooned, the birth of her son Nicholas in Devon in 1962. These and other passages are so graphic that you look up from the page surprised to find yourself back in the here and now . . . The struggle of self with self makes the Journals compelling and unique.' John Carey, Sunday Times

ISBN:	9780571301638
Publisher:	Faber & Faber
Imprint:	Faber & Faber
Published date:	02 Jan 2014
DEWEY:	811.54
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	x, 732 , 16 unnumbered of plates
Weight:	692g
Height:	215mm
Width:	137mm
Spine width:	29mm

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