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Sylvia Plath (Critical Survey of Short Fiction)

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Sylvia Plath is widely recognized as one of the strongest and most distinctive American poets of the postwar period. Her major collections include The Colossus (1960), a number of posthumous collections including Ariel (1965), Crossing the Water (1971), and the definitive Collected Poems (1981). She also wrote the best-selling novel The Bell Jar, which first appeared in England under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas in 1963.

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Sylvia Plath’s Collected Poems won the Pulitzer Prize for...

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