"Crossing the Water, a collection of poems written just prior to those in Ariel, . . . is of immense importance in recording Plath's] extraordinary development. One senses on every page a voice coming into its own, the chaos of a lifetime at last getting ready to...
Crossing the Water and Winter Trees contain the poems written during the exceptionally creative period of the last years of Sylvia Plath's life. Published posthumously in 1971, they add a startling counterpoint to Ariel, the volume that made her reputation...