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Ariel.
by PLATH, Sylvia
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- Hardcover
- first
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London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Faber and Faber,, 1965. The Plath myth-making machine swung into action almost as soon as Ariel was published First edition, first impression, of the author's first posthumous poetry collection, her second overall, published two years after her suicide. Plath believed her Ariel poems to be the best she had produced and accurately predicted to her mother that "they will make my name" (Letters, p. 468). The collection was edited by Ted Hughes, who slightly altered Plath's ordering of the poems, omitted 13 pieces, and added another ten. According to Frieda Hughes, her father "wished to give the book a broader perspective in order to make it more acceptable to readers, rather than alienate them" (Ariel: The Restored Edition, 2007, p. xvi). While Ted Hughes's decisions have been the subject of criticism, he was successful in creating out of Ariel Plath's most enduring poetry book, the one which first gained her significant literary recognition and precipitated her rise to fame among scholars and cult followers alike. Octavo. Original red cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With dust jacket. Ownership inscription on front free endpaper. A little edge rubbing, else fresh; sharp jacket with hint of sunning to spine, unclipped: a near-fine copy in fine jacket. Tabor A5a. Sylvia Plath, Letters Home: Correspondence, 1950-1963, 1975.
Synopsis
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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- Bookseller
- Peter Harrington
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 165233
- Title
- Ariel.
- Author
- PLATH, Sylvia
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- London: Faber and Faber,
- Date Published
- 1965
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About the Seller
Peter Harrington
Biblio member since 2006
London
About Peter Harrington
Since its establishment, Peter Harrington has specialised in sourcing, selling and buying the finest quality original first editions, signed, rare and antiquarian books, fine bindings and library sets. Peter Harrington first began selling rare books from the Chelsea Antiques Market on London's King's Road. For the past twenty years the business has been run by Pom Harrington, Peter's son.
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