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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

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Publication: 8 May 2001, Faber & Faber
ISBN: 9780571086269

Extent: 96 pages

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Ariel by Sylvia Plath

    The poems in Sylvia Plath's Ariel, including many of her best-known such as 'Lady Lazarus', 'Daddy', 'Edge' and 'Paralytic', were... Read more

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      Description

      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

      Paperback

      Publication: 8 May 2001, Faber & Faber
      ISBN: 9780571086269

      Extent: 96 pages

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