The complete, uncensored journals of Sylvia Plath—essential reading for anyone who has been moved and fascinated by the poet's life and work.
"A genuine literary event.... Plath's journals contain marvels of discovery." —The New York Times Book Review
Published in their entirety for the first time, Sylvia Plath's journals provide an intimate portrait of the writer who was to produce in the last seven. months of her life some of the most extraordinary poems of the twentieth century. Faithfully transcribed from the twenty-three journals and journal fragments owned by Smith College, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath includes two journals that Plath's husband, Ted Hughes, unsealed just before his death in 1998.
A heavily abridged edition of Plath's diaries was published in 1982. Roughly two-thirds of this new unabridged edition is material that has never before been made public, revealing more fully the intensity of the poet's personal and literary struggles, and providing fresh insight into both h er frequent desperation and the bravery with which she faced her demons. With its haunting, vibrant, and brutally honest prose, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath is essential reading for all who have been moved and fascinated by Plath's life and work.
'To read Plath's diaries is to see a powerful transitional figure... not only a great writer but a brilliant, tough-minded woman." - Jill Ker Conway, author of The Road from Coorain
'[Plath] is, quite simply, the diarist of our time.' - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
