![]() ![]() ![]() (A full review and examination of these journals, written by none other than Joyce Carol Oates, can be found here.) Kukil, transcribed twenty-three original manuscripts and published them in 2000, (Anchor Books) unabridged and including more than four hundred previously unpublished pages. The college's associate curator of special collections, Karen V. In 1981, Smith College president Jill Ker Conway facilitated the purchase of the Plath collection, which includes letters, poems, as well as the poet's personal journals. Hughes published her journals in 1982, however acknowledged that he had excised unsavory and unflattering entries from the last two notebooks spanning 1959 through 1962. Since she died without a will, Plath's literary estate was left in the hands of her estranged husband. In the summer of 1950, just before matriculating at Smith College, Plath began recording the events of her life in almost obsessive detail, and would ultimately cover topics from her never ending quest for poetic perfection to Hughes' spousal infidelity. Her journals, on the other hand, were an opportunity for Plath to write freely and unencumbered by critical eyes. Plath's sharp, spare verses are the result of many drafts and revisions. In the years that followed, Plath's work would achieve acclaim and accolades, assuring her a place in the pantheon of American poets. A fit of despair over her troubled marriage to fellow poet Ted Hughes led Sylvia Plath to commit suicide in 1963. ![]()
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