Reviews for The Collected Poems

The average rating for The Collected Poems based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2015-11-12 00:00:00 Arpan K Das "Out of the ash I rise with my red hair and I eat men like air."

Review # 2 was written on 2016-04-23 00:00:00 Kara Austin Astute, ironic, and intense, Plath's poems brood over a wide range of topics, through language that's cutting in its precision. The poet's sharp intellect consistently is interesting, but her early collections read as less forceful and breathtaking than her later ones; with age, Plath moved away from the stiff but accomplished formalism of her early poetry toward a risk-taking aesthetic of the theatrical. Had she had the chance to develop that style, she likely would have fulfilled her early promise and published several daring volumes.