Ariel

'I rise with my red hair / And I eat men like air.' It is sixty years since Ariel was first published. The poems were written in an extraordinary burst of creativity just before Sylvia Plath's death in 1963, and they went on to establish her reputation as one of the most original and gifted poets of the twentieth century. The critic Al Alvarez, reviewing the collection in the Observer, wrote: '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.' The poet Emily Berry offers an introduction that gives readers, old and new, a way into the poems, and demonstrates Plath's profound and enduring influence down the generations.Author: Plath, Sylvia,author
Contributors: Plath, Sylvia,author
Binding: paperback
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Languages: English,Published,English,Original Language,Englis
Edition: Main - Re-issue
Published/Release Date: 3 Jul 2025
Format: Paperback / softback
Publisher/Studio/Brand: Faber & Faber
Author/Director/Artist: Sylvia Plath
Dimension (cm): 194x126x5 mm
Package Dimension (cm): 12x194x130 mm
Item Weight (g): 134
Package Weight (g): 130