The Collected Poems (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) by Sylyia Plath logo OLIVER SACKS was a neurologist

OLIVER SACKS was a neurologist

and how to read the sun and the stars

Day and night the Accuser makes no pause

and a variety of artists

our habitations and the diverse wildlife that surrounds us

The Collected Poems (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) by Sylyia Plath logo OLIVER SACKS was a neurologistBy the time of her death on 11, February 1963, Sylvia Plath had written a large bulk of poetry. To my knowledge, she never scrapped any of her poetic efforts. With one or two exceptions, she brought every piece she worked on to some final form acceptable to her, rejecting at most the odd verse, or a false head or a false tail. Her attitude to her verse was artisan like: if she couldn't get a table out of the material, she was quite happy to get a