Sylvia Plath : a literary life / Linda Wagner-Martin, Hannes Professor of English, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wagner-Martin, Linda.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Literary lives (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))

Literary lives

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Plath, Sylvia.

Poets, American--20th century--Biography.

Poets, American.

Genre:

Biographies.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xi pages, 1 unnumbered page, 181 pages, 7 unnumbered pages ; 22 cm.

Edition:

Second edition, revised and exp.

Place of Publication:

[Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ;] [New York] : Palgrave Macmillan, [2003]

Summary:

"Sylvia Plath: A Literary Life" examines the way Plath made herself into a writer. Close analysis of Plath's reading and apprenticeship writing both in fiction and poetry sheds considerable light on Plath's work in the late 1960s. In this updated edition there will be discussion of the aftermath of Plath's death, including the publication of her "Collected Poems"--edited by Ted Hughes--which won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1982. Biographies of Plath will be examined along with the publication of Hughes's "Birthday Letters." A chronology maps out key events and publications both in Plath's lifetime and posthumously.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 170-175) and index.

ISBN:

1403916535

OCLC:

123353458