The journals of Sylvia Plath, 1950-1962 : transcribed from the original manuscripts at Smith College

__The Journals of Sylvia Plath__ offers an intimate portrait of the author of the extraordinary poems for which Plath is so widely loved, but it is also characterized by a prose of vigorous immediacy which places it alongside __The Bell Jar__ as a work of literature. These exact and complete transcriptions of the journals kept by Plath for the last twelve years of her life - covering her marriage to Ted Hughes and her struggle with depression - are a key source for the poems which make up her collections __Ariel__ and __The Colossus__. 'Everything that passes before her eyes travels down from brain to pen with shattering clarity - 1950s New England, pre-co-ed Cambridge, pre-mass tourism Benidorm, where she and Hughes honeymooned, the birth of her son Nicholas in Devon in 1962. These and other passages are so graphic that you look up from the page surprised to find yourself back in the here and now . . . The struggle of self with self makes the __Journals__ compelling and unique.' John Carey, Sunday Times Presents the exact and complete transcriptions of the journals kept by Sylvia Plath for the last twelve years of her life - covering her marriage to Ted Hughes and her struggle with depression - that are a key source for the poems which make up her collections Ariel and The Colossus. These 23 journals detail Plath's adult life: student days at Smith College, her time at Cambridge University where she met Ted Hughes, the two years spent living in New England and life in Devon, before her marriage broke down in 1962