| Ariel: The Restored Edition: A Facsimile of Plath's Manuscript, Reinstating Her Original Selection and Arrangement Contributor(s): Plath, Sylvia (Author) |
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ISBN: 0060732601 ISBN-13: 9780060732608 Publisher: Harper Perennial OUR PRICE: $17.09 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2005 Annotation: This facsimile edition of Plath's posthumous volume of poetry restores, for the first time, the selection and arrangement as she left it at the point of her death, and includes notes the poet made for the BBC. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General - Poetry | Women Authors - Poetry | Subjects & Themes - Death, Grief, Loss |
| Dewey: B |
| Series: Modern Classics |
| Physical Information: 0.69" H x 5.99" W x 9.08" (0.61 lbs) 256 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: "Made up of poems that are so original in their style and so startlingly accomplished in their confessional voice that they helped change the direction of contemporary poetry, Ariel is a masterpiece." -- New York Observer Sylvia Plath's famous collection, as she intended it. When Sylvia Plath died, she not only left behind a prolific life but also her unpublished literary masterpiece, Ariel. When her husband, Ted Hughes, first brought this collection to the public, it garnered worldwide acclaim, but it wasn't the draft Sylvia had wanted her readers to see. This facsimile edition restores, for the first time, Plath's original manuscript--including handwritten notes--and her own selection and arrangement of poems. This edition also includes in facsimile the complete working drafts of her poem Ariel, which provide a rare glimpse into the creative process of a beloved writer. This publication introduces a truer version of Plath's works, and will alter her legacy forever. |
Contributor Bio(s): Plath, Sylvia: - Sylvia Plath was born in 1932 in Massachusetts. Her books include the poetry collections The Colossus, Crossing the Water, Winter Trees, Ariel, and 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. |