Ariel
About this book
The poems in Sylvia Plath's
Ariel, including many of her best-known such as 'Lady Lazarus', 'Daddy', 'Edge' and 'Paralytic', 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, hardminded . . . 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
This beautifully designed edition forms part of a series with five other cherished poets, including Wendy Cope, Don Paterson, Philip Larkin, Simon Armitage and Alice Oswald.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- Morning Song
- The Couriers
- Sheep in Fog
- The Applicant
- Lady Lazarus
- Tulips
- Cut
- Elm
- The Night Dances
- Poppies in October
- Berck-Plage
- Ariel
- Death & Co.
- Nick and the Candlestick
- Gulliver
- Getting There
- Medusa
- The Moon and the Yew Tree
- A Birthday Present
- Letter in November
- The Rival
- Daddy
- You’re
- Fever 103°
- The Bee Meeting
- The Arrival of the Bee Box
- Stings
- Wintering
- The Hanging Man
- Little Fugue
- Years
- The Munich Mannequins
- Totem
- Paralytic
- Balloons
- Poppies in July
- Kindness
- Contusion
- Edge
- Words
- About the Author
- Copyright
