There is an admirable no-nonsense air about this the language is bare but vivid and precise, with a concentration that implies a good deal of disturbance with proportionately little fuss.' A. And she does so with a seriousness that demands only that she be judged equally seriously. 'On every page, a poet is serving notice that she has earned her credentials and knows her trade.' Seamus Heaney 'She steers clear of feminine charm, deliciousness, gentility, supersensitivity and the act of being a poetess. ![]() Showing a scholarly dedication to the craft, the poems in this collection are brimming with originality and the startling imagery that would later confirm her status as one of the most important poets of the twentieth century. Originally published in 1960, The Colossus was the only volume of Sylvia Plath's poetry published before her death in 1963. Showing a scholarly dedication to the craft, this title provides the collection of poems. Silvia Plath (1932-1963) The Colossus shall never get you put together entirely, Pieced, glued, and properly jointed. I was thrilled.Description for COLOSSUS Paperback. But one could hardly have predicted, from her taut yet unfocused first book, The. Stephen Spender at the Eliot's home here. Fifty years ago today, Sylvia Plath ended her life as a major poet and an artist of the highest order. Eliot (who is an editor at Ted's publishing house), his charming Yorkshire wife & Mr and Mrs. We glut ourselves on the cheap play tickets, foreign films, galleries and all the best fare, while living like anonymous creatures, Ted studiously avoiding the requests for public appearances that find their way to us. ".We are extremely happy in our small northern niche in London where Regents Park, Primrose Hill & The Zoo are our backyard, so to speak, & long for a house in an adjoining street. ![]() Plath notes that she is pleased to know that The Colossus has reached him. The card is referred to in the Wagner-Martin edition of Plath's correspondence, but it remains entirely unpublished. 1½ pages, oblong narrow 8 o, totalling nearly 250 words.Ī LETTER WITH VERY FINE LITERARY CONTENT. Autograph letter signed ("Sylvia") in a printed Christmas card, to Wilbury Crockett. These seven inscribed copies constitute all of the Plath presentations presently recorded. Eliot's successor as a poetry editor at Faber and Ted Hughes's publisher and the third inscribed to Ted Hughes's parents, sold at Christie's New York, 9 December 1998, lot 46. Merwin and his wife the second inscribed to Charles Monteith, T.S. In addition to the advance copies detailed above, three other presentation copies of The Colossus are recorded: the first inscribed to the poet W.S. PLATH PRESENTATIONS ARE EXCEEDINGLY SCARCE. Ted Hughes, Plath's husband and the dedicatee, received an inscribed copy, presumably from the advance batch. Of the ten copies Plath distributed, four have been located: the present the copy she sent to her mother the copy she sent to her brother and the copy that either she or Heinemann deposited at the British Library (not inscribed). ![]() Plath's novel, The Bell Jar, was published under the pseudonym "Victoria Lukas."Īs the present copy was inscribed on the day of her 28th birthday, it most likely is one of the 10 "advance" copies Heinemann supplied to Plath as a consolation for the fact that the book was not ready by that date, as originally promised. The Colossus was the only work Plath published under her own name in her lifetime, but it became one of the most influential first books of poetry of the post-war period. Crockett remained close to Plath until her suicide in 1963. Crockett-In whose classroom and wisdom these poems have root-from Sylvia London: October 27, 1960." Wilbury Crockett was Plath's English teacher at the Bradford High School and Plath makes numerous references to him in her journals and letters as her first real literary influence. God’s lioness, How one we grow, Pivot of heels and kneesThe furrow Splits and passes, sister to The brown arc Of the neck I cannot catch, Nigger-eye Berries cast dark Hooks Black sweet blood mouthfuls, Shadows. A VERY FINE ASSOCIATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY PLATH TO HER HIGH-SCHOOL TEACHER, WILBURY CROCKETT on the front free endpaper: "For Mr. Then the substanceless blue Pour of tor and distances. ![]() Provenance: Wilbury Crockett, Plath's high school teacher (presentation inscription).įIRST EDITION OF PLATH'S FIRST COMMERCIALLY PUBLISHED BOOK. Original green cloth, gilt-lettered on spine (slightest wear at ends of spine) printed dust jacket (lightly soiled, spine lightly faded).
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