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.
Alvarez in the Observer This beautifully designed edition forms part of a series with five other cherished poets, including Wendy Cope, Don Paterson, Philip Larkin, Simon Armitage and Alice Oswald.. the book is a major literary event.'
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They are works of great artistic purity and, despite all the nihilism, great generosity . . . '
If the poems are despairing, vengeful and destructive, they are at the same time tender, open to things, and also unusually clever, sardonic, hardminded .
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