Ray Moore’s Study Guides provide insights into important but demanding texts.
This is a work of literary criticism and NOT an edition of the poems.
Sylvia Plath is one of the greatest and most popular poets of the twentieth century. Her poems do not, however, yield their meaning to a superficial reading. Plath demands a lot of her readers, but the rewards are worth the effort.
Critical works on Plath deal with her poems selectively.
Uniquely, this Guide goes through each poem providing a full explanation of its meaning and significance.
This Study Guide to Plath's famous collection of poems published in 1960 - the only poetry collection she published
before her death aims to support close reading of these sometimes complex and difficult poems.
The book may be used by individuals reading and reflecting on this text alone as well as by groups and classes reading,
discussing and studying it.
There is a detailed introduction to Sylvia Plath's poetry with an emphasis on the problems of interpretation.
For each poem there Also
Language
English
Pages
185
Format
Paperback
Release
July 15, 2023
ISBN 13
9798852042651
Study Guide to Sylvia Plath's The Colossus and Other Poems
Ray Moore’s Study Guides provide insights into important but demanding texts.
This is a work of literary criticism and NOT an edition of the poems.
Sylvia Plath is one of the greatest and most popular poets of the twentieth century. Her poems do not, however, yield their meaning to a superficial reading. Plath demands a lot of her readers, but the rewards are worth the effort.
Critical works on Plath deal with her poems selectively.
Uniquely, this Guide goes through each poem providing a full explanation of its meaning and significance.
This Study Guide to Plath's famous collection of poems published in 1960 - the only poetry collection she published
before her death aims to support close reading of these sometimes complex and difficult poems.
The book may be used by individuals reading and reflecting on this text alone as well as by groups and classes reading,
discussing and studying it.
There is a detailed introduction to Sylvia Plath's poetry with an emphasis on the problems of interpretation.
For each poem there Also