A review by loyaultemelie
The Collected Poems by Sylvia Plath

3.0

You can really tell this was edited by Ted Hughes. Though I perhaps understand the want to edit out some less sensitive/more tone deaf parts of her poems, I find hacking off a line here or there (as happened in Lady Lazarus for example, which I noticed when I listened to Plath read the poems herself) ultimately only hurts the works themselves.
I suppose I’ll have to read Ariel for the unedited poems (although it’s possible they were edited there too my knowledge of Plath is altogether minimal).