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Ariel

Author: Sylvia Plath   Series: Faber Poetry

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Ariel is the volume upon which rests Sylvia Plath's reputation as one of the most original, daring and gifted poets of the twentieth century; now one of six wonderful collections published in celebration of Faber's rich poetry heritage.

Possessing one of the most commanding voices in twentieth-century poetry, Plath published only one volume of verse and a single novel.

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Ariel is the volume upon which rests Sylvia Plath's reputation as one of the most original, daring and gifted poets of the twentieth century; now one of six wonderful collections published in celebration of Faber's rich poetry heritage.

Possessing one of the most commanding voices in twentieth-century poetry, Plath published only one volume of verse and a single novel.

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The poems in Sylvia Plath's Ariel, including many of her best-known such as Lady Lazarus, Daddy and Fever 103 degrees, were all written between the publication, in 1960, of Plath's first book, The Colossus, and her death in 1963.

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Critic Reviews

"Sylvia Plath's last poems have impressed themselves on many readers with the force of myth. They are among the handful of writings by which future generations will seek to know us and give us a name."-- "Critical Quarterly""It is fair to say that no group of poems since Dylam Thomas's "Deaths and Entrances" has had as vivid and disturbing an impact on English critics and readers as has "Ariel." Sylvia Plath's poems have already passed into legend as both representative of our present tone of emotional life and unique in their implacable, harsh brilliance...These poems take tremendous risks, extending Sylvia Plath's essentially austere manner to the very limit. They are a bitter triumph, proof of the capacity of poetry to give to reality the greater permanence of the imagined. She could not return from them."-- George Steiner, "The Reporter"

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About the Author

Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and studied at Smith College. In 1955 she went to Cambridge University on a Fulbright scholarship where she met and later married Ted Hughes. She published one collection of poems in her lifetime, The Colossus (1960), and a novel The Bell Jar (1963). Her Collected Poems, which contains her poetry written from 1956 until her death, was published in 1981 and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.

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Possessing one of the most commanding voices in twentieth-century poetry, Plath published only one volume of verse and a single novel. The poems in Sylvia Plath's Ariel, including many of her best-known such as Lady Lazarus, Daddy and Fever 103 degrees, were all written between the publication, in 1960, of Plath's first book, The Colossus, and her death in 1963.

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Product Details

Publisher
Faber & Faber
Published
6th May 2010
Edition
Main
Pages
96
ISBN
9780571259311

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