The Journals of Sylvia Plath

The electrifying diaries that are essential reading for anyone moved and fascinated by the life and work of one of America's most acclaimed poets.

Sylvia Plath began keeping a diary as a young child. By the time she was at Smith College, when this book begins, she had settled into a nearly daily routine with her journal, which was also a sourcebook for her writing. Plath once called her journal her “Sargasso,” her repository of imagination, “a litany of dreams, directives, and imperatives,”...