Ariel book cover by Sylvia Plath

Ariel

Adult • United States • Poetry • Regional & Cultural
Features original manuscript arrangement Revelation of Plath's intended selection Published after Plath's tragic death Redefines her literary legacy Unveils hidden themes and motifs

When Sylvia Plath died, she not only left behind a prolific life but also her unpublished literary masterpiece, Ariel. When her husband, Ted Hughes, first brought this collection to the public, it garnered worldwide acclaim, but it wasn't the draft Sylvia had wanted her readers to see. This publication introduces a truer version of Plath's works, and will alter her legacy forever.

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Book details

Publication date
2014
ISBN
1551997649

United States + Poetry + Regional & Cultural

Reader guide

What to Know Before Reading Ariel

Sylvia Plath’s famous collection, as she intended it. This facsimile edition restores, for the first time, Plath's original manuscript—including handwritten notes—and her own selection and arrangement of poems.

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About the author

Sylvia Plath

Sylvia Plath

Sylvia Plath was born in 1932 in Massachusetts. Her books include the poetry collections The Colossus, Crossing the Water, Winter Trees, Ariel, and Collected Poems, which won the Pulitzer Prize. 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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““Made up of poems that are so original in their style and so startlingly accomplished in their confessional voice that they helped change the direction of contemporary poetry, Ariel is a masterpiece.” — New York Observer”

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