The catalog text reads:
The definitive edition of Plath’s poetry for readers,
scholars and students.
Sylvia Plath’s first Collected Poems was published in 1981. This
new volume draws on decades of research and almost doubles the
content of that previous edition.
The book is in two parts. It begins with the poems Plath
composed in the last ten years of her life and on which her
reputation is founded, and follows with those poems written in
childhood and through her student years. In both sections the
editors date, correct and arrange each poem chronologically,
drawing on manuscripts, typescripts and related material.
Critical notes help document Plath’s extraordinary evolution as a
poet, from her childhood compositions through to the
blossoming of early ambition and into the molten core that was
to shape the poems of her last few years and secure her place in
literary history.
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