Pulitzer Prize winner Sylvia Plath\'s complete poetic works, edited and introduced by Ted Hughes.
So this book contains not merely what verse she saved, but--after 1956--all she wrote.--Ted Hughes, from the Introduction.
The end product for her was not so much a successful poem, as something that had temporarily exhausted her ingenuity.
Her attitude to her verse was artisan-like: if she couldn\'t get a table out of the material, she was quite happy to get a chair, or even a toy.
With one or two exceptions, she brought every piece she worked on to some final form acceptable to her, rejecting at most the odd verse, or a false head or a false tail.
To my knowledge, she never scrapped any of her poetic efforts.
By the time of her death on 11, February 1963, Sylvia Plath had written a large bulk of poetry.
Pulitzer Prize winner Sylvia Plath\'s complete poetic works, edited and introduced by Ted Hughes
