Pulitzer Prize Poetry Winner
The Collected Poems
by Sylvia Plath
Summary
This posthumous gathering brings together early formalist work and the incandescent late poems of "Ariel," tracing an arc into rage, ecstasy, and self-elegy. Plath's compressed, image-driven lines fuse domestic detail with mythic violence, generating a voice of unmistakable intensity. The volume cemented her status as a defining figure of mid-century American verse.
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Historical Context & Significance
The first posthumous Pulitzer for Poetry in decades. Plath remains one of the most influential poets of the century.