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1.The Bell Jar by: Sylvia Plath October 17, 2006
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How did I go 34 years without picking up and reading this gem? I'll tell you...It is not included on any public school reading list that I have ever seen and every college literature course that I took (just for fun) never examined Sylvia Plath's writing. Instead I had the misfortune of several lit. courses that focused on less talented modern poets/writers. In 1963, this book would have been shocking. The main theme is mental disturbia, suicide, losing virginity, (an all out attack on the quiet suburban status quo.) As I read this book with the jaded perspective of a modern day American citizen, I couldn't shake the overwhelming feeling of innocence this 40 year old story emits. This book is like a three year old child attempting to shock her parents ... Read More

2.The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath by: Sylvia Plath October 17, 2000
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Having first read Plath a decade after her suicide, and in a period of my life in which I was very concerned about my own mother - a nurse, artist and writer who carried the diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia - I scoured Plath's poems for clues as to what caused her to kill herself. Until this book, I had not read Plath since the 70s. I have since come to some of my own conclusions as to what caused or contributed to her death, and will continue my research. Plath and fellow Confessional poet, Anne Sexton, are worthy of intense scrutiny and examination into the poetry and into their lives. These women, like my mother, were born during an unenlightened time, and suffered in part because of the times in which they were born. A riveting read.

3.The Collected Poems (P.S.) by: Sylvia Plath September 02, 2008
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Having first read Plath a decade after her suicide, and in a period of my life in which I was very concerned about my own mother - a nurse, artist and writer who carried the diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia - I scoured Plath's poems for clues as to what caused her to kill herself. Until this book, I had not read Plath since the 70s. I have since come to some of my own conclusions as to what caused or contributed to her death, and will continue my research. Plath and fellow Confessional poet, Anne Sexton, are worthy of intense scrutiny and examination into the poetry and into their lives. These women, like my mother, were born during an unenlightened time, and suffered in part because of the times in which they were born. A riveting read.

4.Ariel: The Restored Edition by: Sylvia Plath April 05, 2007
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As a writer, I don't know what people are thinking... It's the author's right to organize their own work. Someone else does (Ted) not make a better version! Only she knows what she was trying to create. This is a great book!

5.Collected Poems by: Sylvia Plath August 19, 2002
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Sylvia Plath - The Collected Poems has to be the best book of poetry in the world. I love Sylvia Plath, she was a genius. Her poetry moves me, everything she has ever written is gold. The first poem I ever read by Plath was Metaphors, "I've eaten a bag of green apples, boarded the train there's no getting off." Something about that line just struck a cord with me, from that moment on I was determined to read all her poems. Another poems I love include: Soliloquy of the Solipsist, I am Vertical, The Other, The Rival, You're, The Rabbit Catcher, Lady Lazaurus, Stillborn, For A Fatherless Son, Leaving Early, Morning Song, Cut, A Birthday Present, Fever 103, Gigolo, Daddy, and The Disquieting Muses. She writes about her father a lot, he died when she was nine and his death left her with depression for the rest of ... Read More

6.The Bell Jar by: Sylvia Plath 1972
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Sylvia Plath's timeless novel The Bell Jar has without a doubt exceeded my high expectations. Her writing is nothing short of beautifully detailed, incredibly creative and downright genius. She, unlike other authors has the ability to keep her readers in such a way that to abandon the book is virtually impossible. Her novel is as smooth and effortless as her poetry. The heartbreaking story tells about the year she tried to kill herself and the inescapable feelings that haunted her, feelings of being trapped and alone - as if in a bell jar. My criticisms for Plath are little to none. The book is at times excruciatingly painful to read, the ideas that went on in Esther Greenwood's head are explained beautifully but are also about death and feeling suffocated, trapped and isolated - they are about sheer depression and ... Read More

7.Letters Home by: Sylvia Plath April 08, 1992
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Letter Home contains all of the letters that Sylvia wrote to her Mother, Warren and Mrs Prouty from 1950-1963 and span her university life, up to her marriage to Ted Hughes and beyond. The best thing about this book is the enthusiasm for study, success and a family that Plath shows in the letters. As a fan I often imagine her as a moody person like her poems sometimes suggests but Plath appears happy and full of life and love in each letter. I particularly enjoyed the letters from the time she met Ted and started a family with him as their plans and gaining success were so well deserved and interesting. Letters Home comes with an introduction by Plath's Mother who also adds a few bits of context throughout. I stopped reading after the birth of her second child as the letters became quite sad and as ... Read More

8.Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams: Short Stories, Prose, and Diary Excerpts (P.S.) by: Sylvia Plath September 02, 2008
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After reading "The Bell Jar", I was very disappointed that there were no more books to read by Sylvia Plath. That's why I was very happy to find this book of her other prose writings. The journal entries are fascinating and help the reader to understand the author to a more personal degree. Many of the stories resemble "The Bell Jar" in theme, like "Tongues of Stone", which tells of a young woman in a hospital. It is obvious that many of the stories were written when Sylvia Plath was very young, like "Initiation" (she won a prize for this from Seventeen magazine when she was 19). But many are very deep and complex, like "Johnny Panic" (dealing with a girl who works at a psychiatrist's office and is on the cusp of insanity herself) and "The Wishing Box" (about a young wife who is suicidal when she fears she has lost her imagination). ... Read More

9.The Colossus and Other Poems by: Sylvia Plath May 19, 1998
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Sylvia Plath is well reputed as a poet. Her untimely death, at too early an age, silenced her poetic voice. This book represents one of her early works. Her poetry is not beautiful or lyric or elegiac. There is a hardness, almost a clinical coldness, to the verses, and some dark themes recur. And some odds poems based on intriguingly selected facts. Of the latter. . . . A stone coffin from the 4th century AD in Cambridge (England) contains skeletons of a woman, a mouse, and a shrew. The woman's ankle bone was slightly gnawed. Here are a couple lines from "All the Dead Dears." ". . . Relics of a mouse and a shrew That battened for a day on her ankle-bone. These three, unmasked now, bear Dry witness To the gross eating game. . ." "The Manor Garden" Read More

10.The Journals of Sylvia Plath by: Sylvia Plath May 11, 1998
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I wasn't aware, while reading these brilliant journals, that the book is "abridged," but what's here is staggeringly clever, honest and just plain great writing. Even when Plath is writing at her most depressed, it is not a depressing experience to read her journals because they're so wonderfully written. Really good stuff. I enjoyed her journals more than her poetry, to be honest.

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