To judge by the selected works of a man many consider her greatest
contemporary poet, England is in serious literary trouble. Careful,
well-crafted, with the over-diligent working of metaphor, these
poems are almost totally deficient in vitality, spontaneity, and
playfulness. To quote what is no doubt an unwitting
self-description, his compilation of imageries rarely goes beyond
itself: "By feats of torpor, by circumventing sleights/ Of
stupefaction, juggleries of benumbing,/ By lucid sophistries of
sight/ To a staturing 'I am.' " The subject matter is appropriately
yesteryear: references to Cuchulain, Parnell, Faustus, King and
Country, The War to End All Wars; words like "behemoth,"
invocations such as "Aged Eye!" However, some of his later nature
poems, where he assumes the guise of rock, wind, or animal,
transcend this academic categorizing into a kind of ecstasy ("The
moon has stepped back like an artist gazing at a work/ That points
at him amazed"), giving promise to the more interesting direction
of his future (now current) work. (Kirkus Reviews)
Sylvia Plath is one of the defining voices in twentieth-century
poetry. This classic selection of her work, made by her former
husband Ted Hughes, provides the perfect introduction to this most
influential of poets. The poems are taken from Sylvia Plath's four
collections Ariel, The Colossus, Crossing the Water and Winter
Trees, and include many of her most celebrated works, such as
'Daddy', 'Lady Lazarus' and 'Wuthering Heights'.
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