Ariel's Gift
eBook - ePub

Ariel's Gift

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eBook - ePub

Ariel's Gift

About this book

Erica Wagner provides a comprehensive guide to the poems that must constitute one of the most extraordinary and powerful volumes published in the last century. When Ted Hughes's Birthday Letters was published in 1998, it was greeted with astonishment and acclaim. Few suspected that Ted Hughes had been at work, for a quarter of a century, on a cycle of poems addressed almost entirely to his first wife, the American poet Sylvia Plath. In Ariel's Gift, Erica Wagner offers a commentary on the poems, pointing the reader towards the events that shaped them, and, crucially, showing how they draw upon Plath's own work.

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Information

Publisher
Faber & Faber
Year
2016
eBook ISBN
9780571329427
Edition
0
Subtopic
Poetry

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Landing Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Epigraph
  5. Contents
  6. List of Illustrations
  7. Introduction: The Ecstasy of Influence
  8. 1: ‘A crush of diamonds’
  9. 2: ‘Beautiful, beautiful America!’
  10. 3: ‘Spain was the land of your dreams’
  11. 4: ‘That home was our first camp’
  12. 5: ‘What happens in the heart simply happens’
  13. 6: ‘Right across America we went looking for you’
  14. 7: ‘I let that fox cub go’
  15. 8: ‘Then the script overtook us’
  16. 9: ‘The cave of thunder’
  17. 10: ‘The shock of her words from nowhere’
  18. 11: ‘The jewel you lost was blue’
  19. References
  20. Acknowledgements
  21. Bibliography
  22. General Index
  23. Index of Works by Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath
  24. Plates
  25. About the Author
  26. By the Same Author
  27. Copyright