Ariel (The Restored Edition)

Author: Sylvia Plath

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  • : $29.95 AUD
  • : 9780571236091
  • : Faber & Faber, Limited
  • : Faber & Faber, Limited
  • : March 2007
  • : 32.99
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Description

Upon the publication of her posthumous volume of poetry, "Ariel", in the mid-1960s, Sylvia Plath became a household name. Readers may be surprised to learn that the draft of "Ariel" left behind by Sylvia Plath when she died in 1963 is different from the volume of poetry eventually published to worldwide acclaim. This facsimile edition restores, for the first time, the selection and arrangement of the poems as Sylvia Plath left them at the point of her death. In addition to the facsimile pages of Sylvia Plath's manuscript, this edition also includes in facsimile the complete working drafts of the title poem "Ariel" in order to offer a sense of Plath's creative process, as well as notes the author made for the BBC about some of the manuscript's poems. Ariel first published 1965; this edition 2004.

Author description

Sylvia Plth was born in 1932 in Massachussets. Her books include the poetry collections The Colossus, Crossing the Water, Winter Trees, Ariel, and the Collected Poems, which won the Pulitzer Prize. She was married to the poet Ted Hughes, and died in London in 1963.