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Ariel:

Perennial Classics Edition
Front Cover
358 Reviews
HarperCollins, Feb 3, 1999 - Poetry - 128 pages
"In these poems...Sylvia Plath becomes herself, becomes something imaginary, newly, wildly and subtly created."
-- From the Introduction by Robert Lowell

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Such powerful imagery. - Goodreads
I love her journals and prose; I like her poetry. - Goodreads
Visual, guttural and angry are good reference words. - Goodreads
I gained even more respect for her writing. - Goodreads
My intro to modern American poetry. - Goodreads
An incredible achievement in prose. - Goodreads

Review: Ariel

User Review  - RK Byers - Goodreads

i don't know why she has a reputation as a great poetess when the prose in "The Bell Jar" was, for my money, the best thing she ever wrote BY FAR. Read full review

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User Review  - Tracy - Goodreads

These poems are as haunting as ever, especially after reading the newest bio of Plath. What she accomplishes in terms of tone in this collection (via syntax, rhetorical shifts, narrative voice) is amazing--especially enjoyed the bee poems this time through. Read full review

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About the author (1999)

Sylvia Plath was born in 1932 in Massachusetts. Her books include the poetry collections The Colossus, Crossing the Water, Winter Trees, Ariel, and The Collected Poems, which won the Pulitzer Prize. A complete and uncut facsimile edition of Ariel was published in 2004 with her original selection and arrangement of poems. She was married to the poet Ted Hughes, with whom she had a daughter, Frieda, and a son, Nicholas. She died in London in 1963.

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