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Ariel: Poems Paperback - 1999

by Sylvia Plath

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This all-new edition of Sylvia Plath's shattering final poems--with a foreword by Robert Lowell--will appear during National Poetry Month.

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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.

 'If the poems are despairing, vengeful and destructive, they are at the same time tender, open to things, and also unusually clever, sardonic, hard-minded ...They are works of great artistic purity and, despite all the nihilism, great generosity ...the book is a major literary event.' -- A. Alvarez in the Observer

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Readers widely admire the collection’s craft and emotional force, noting vivid, often brutal imagery and a pervasive darkness. Many found the poems challenging or opaque, yet compelling enough to revisit. Several flagged the use of racial slurs and casual Holocaust comparisons, which provoked discomfort and criticism. Longtime admirers praised the intensity and precision; newcomers sometimes struggled but recognized the quality. The posthumous context adds to the work’s tragic gravity.

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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." -- The Critical Quarterly

Sylvia Plath's celebrated collection.

When Sylvia Plath died, she not only left behind a prolific oeuvre but also her unpublished literary masterpiece, Ariel. Ted Hughes helped bring the collection to life in 1966, and its publication garnered worldwide acclaim. This collection showcases the beloved poet's brilliant, provoking, and always moving poems, including "Ariel," "The Applicant," "Lady Lazarus," and "Edge", and once again shows why readers have fallen in love with her work over generations.

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"In these poems...Sylvia Plath becomes herself, becomes something imaginary, newly, wildly and subtly created."
-- From the Introduction by Robert Lowell

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  • Title Ariel: Poems
  • Author Sylvia Plath
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: first
  • Pages 128
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Harper Perennial, Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 1999-02-03
  • Features Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780060931728 / 0060931728
  • Weight 0.25 lbs (0.11 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.8 x 5.2 x 0.3 in (19.81 x 13.21 x 0.76 cm)
  • Themes
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
    • Topical: Death/Dying
    • Topical: Family
    • Topical: Women's Interest
  • Category Poetry
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 98056144
  • Dewey Decimal Code 811.54
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