The Letters of Sylvia Plath - Volume 1 by Edited by Peter K. Steinberg and Karen V. Kukil politics Snow lay on the ground

Snow lay on the ground for nine months of the year

For in deciding how we live with our gods

he spent years wading through the prose of dictators

said John Plender in the FT

The Letters of Sylvia Plath - Volume 1 by Edited by Peter K. Steinberg and Karen V. Kukil politics Snow lay on the groundThe Letters of Sylvia Plath Volume I: 1940 1956Sylvia Plath (1932 1963) was one of the writers that defined the course of twentieth century poetry. Her vivid, daring and complex poetry continues to captivate new generations of readers and writers. In the Letters, we discover the art of Plath's correspondence, most of which has never before been published and is here presented unabridged, without revision, so that she speaks directly in her own words.