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Ariel Hardcover – 9 November 2010

by Sylvia Plath (Author)
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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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    12.6 x 0.6 x 19.8 cm
  6. ISBN-10
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  7. ISBN-13
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"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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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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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Faber Poetry; 1st edition (9 November 2010)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 96 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0571259316
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0571259311
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 12.6 x 0.6 x 19.8 cm
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Sylvia Plath was born in 1932 in Massachusetts. Her books include the poetry collections The Colossus, Crossing the Water, Winter Trees, Ariel, and The Collected Poems, which won the Pulitzer Prize. Plath is credited with being a pioneer of the 20th-century style of writing called confessional poetry. Her poem "Daddy" is one of the best-known examples of this genre.

In 1963, Plath's semi-autobiographic novel The Bell Jar was published under the pseudonym "Victoria Lucas"; it was reissued in 1966 under her own name. A complete and uncut facsimile edition of Ariel was published in 2004 with her original selection and arrangement of poems. She was married to the poet Ted Hughes, with whom she had a daughter, Frieda, and a son, Nicholas. She died in London in 1963.

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5.0 out of 5 stars One of the classics!
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Ariel was published posthumously (Sylvia Plath died in 1963) and this contributed to Plath's rise to fame. It’s dramatic, and is at times dark & has autobiographical descriptions of mental illness. Definitely something to read if you’re into the classics
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Lovely book of poetry and read along with birthday letters is a remarkable look st life writing. Though unfortunately my copy arrive damaged.
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Lovely book of poetry and read along with birthday letters is a remarkable look st life writing. Though unfortunately my copy arrive damaged.
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Juracy Souza da Silva Waters-Marsh
5.0 out of 5 stars Edição histórica
Reviewed in Brazil on 15 November 2022
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Livro novo em excelente estado. Perfeito.
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Elsie
5.0 out of 5 stars Sylvia Plath is a highly acclaimed author
Reviewed in Canada on 28 January 2022
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Sylvia Plath’s poetry shows her plight and short life in dealing with her possible illness and hospitalizations and men in her life who affected her as a girl, wife, and mother.
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5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best book of poems, everyone should have a copy
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5.0 out of 5 stars A very insightful read about the author’s life in poetry format
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It is a collection of forty three poems written during several stages of the author’s life reflecting her thoughts on her life and people around her. It also talks about the author’s mental health and the other health conditions.

My most favourite in this collection is a poem titled ‘Tulips’. It’s so different and unique. It spoke to me the most and I saw myself thriving in between the lines of this poem.

I feel this collection is not for everyone specially the young readers and the beginners. They might find it rather difficult to interpret or may find most of the poems too dark.

I would suggest you to read her other book ‘Bell Jar’ if you want to read Sylvia Plath.

Now both these books mean a lot to me.

Some poems get overwhelming because they have revealed myself to me.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A very insightful read about the author’s life in poetry format
Reviewed in India on 2 April 2022
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It is a collection of forty three poems written during several stages of the author’s life reflecting her thoughts on her life and people around her. It also talks about the author’s mental health and the other health conditions.

My most favourite in this collection is a poem titled ‘Tulips’. It’s so different and unique. It spoke to me the most and I saw myself thriving in between the lines of this poem.

I feel this collection is not for everyone specially the young readers and the beginners. They might find it rather difficult to interpret or may find most of the poems too dark.

I would suggest you to read her other book ‘Bell Jar’ if you want to read Sylvia Plath.

Now both these books mean a lot to me.

Some poems get overwhelming because they have revealed myself to me.
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Les goûts et les couleurs en marière de littérature... Chacun se fera son avis.
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