Letters of Sylvia Plath Volume I: 1940-1956

This comprehensive edition of Sylvia Plath’s letters is a work of immense scholarship and care, presenting a complete and historically accurate text of the known and extant letters Plath wrote to over one hundred and twenty correspondents, including Ted Hughes.

This edition reproduces previously unseen photographs, and a gathering of Plath’s own beautiful line drawings taken from the letters she sent to her friends and family, which offer the reader generous insight into the life of one of our most significant poets.