Ariel: Sylvia Plath - Faber 90 - Hardcover

Plath, Sylvia

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0571351166 ISBN 13: 9780571351169

Publisher: Faber & Faber, 2019

Synopsis

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 of ten titles celebrating Faber's publishing over the decades.

About this title

Book Description:

Faber 90th Anniversary edition of Plath's best-known collection

About the Author:

Sylvia Plath (1932-63) was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and studied at Smith College. In 1955 she went to Cambridge University on a Fulbright scholarship, where she met and later married Ted Hughes. She published one collection of poems in her lifetime, The Colossus (1960), and a novel, The Bell Jar (1963). Her Collected Poems, which contains her poetry written from 1956 until her death, was published in 1981 and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry.

About this edition

• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 0571351166
• ISBN 13: 9780571351169
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 96