When Sylvia Plath\'s Ariel was published posthumously, A.
This selection made by Ted Hughes from all her work shows that Sylvia Plath is clearly a major poet of the twentieth centur.
Alvarez 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, hard-minded ...
They are works of great artistic purity and, despite all the nihilism, great generosity ...the book is a major literary event\'.
When Sylvia Plath\'s Ariel was published posthumously, A