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“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When Sylvia Plath died, she not only left behind a prolific life but also her unpublished literary masterpiece, Ariel.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 o

Ariel

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    A Paperback / softback by Sylvia Plath

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      Publisher Harper Collins
      Imprint HarperCollins Publishers
      Published 25 October 2005
      ISBN-13 9780060732608
      978-0060732608
      ISBN-10 0060732601
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      Poetry Books by Sylvia Plath

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      “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      When Sylvia Plath died, she not only left behind a prolific life but also her unpublished literary masterpiece, Ariel.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 o

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