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Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 1568497237
ISBN-13: 9781568497235
Mar 1999
Publisher: Harpercollins
85 pages
Language: English |
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Synopsis
As Sylvia Plath herself predicted, "I am writing the best poems of my life... They will make my name." Dragging herself out of a debilitating depression to look unflinchingly into her tortured soul, Plath managed to write the poems that would be published posthumously in the 1966 collection ARIEL, a work that cemented her reputation as a feminist heroine. Despite her best efforts, none of these poems were published in magazines at the time; even the New Yorker, which had a first-reading contract, turned them all down. She wrote them during the winter of 1962-63, one of the coldest in English history, shortly after separating from her husband, Ted Hughes, and while living alone with her two small children, first in an isolated Devon farmhouse and then in an underheated London flat. ARIEL contains such iconic works as "Lady Lazarus," a poem filled with terrifying imagery ("my skin/Bright as a Nazi lampshade") and a disturbingly witty view of suicide. In the brutal, confessional "Daddy," Plath mingles her anger at her dead father with her resentment of her husband's faithlessness in a poem that compares the two of them to Hitler and to a vampire drinking her blood. However, the volume also contains some of her most tender lyrics, poems to and about her infant children, including "'Nick and the Candlestick" and "Morning Song." Plath committed suicide on February 11, 1963--an act that, along with the excellence of her last poems, ensured her fame and also a mini-industry, including numerous biographies as well as the 2003 film SYLVIA, starring Gwyneth Paltrow as the long-suffering poet.
| Size | | Length: | 85 pages | | Height: | 9.0 in | | Width: | 6.0 in | | Thickness: | 0.5 in | | Weight: | 9.6 oz |
Industry Reviews
"[O]ne of the benchmark volumes of poetry in this century."
New York Times Book Review - Eavan Boland (01/24/1999)
"More successfully than any other recent American poet, Sylvia Plath dramatized those moments of crisis during which the self must choose between life and death."
Twentieth-Century Literature - Jon Rosenblatt
"One of the hidden supply lines behind ARIEL was the set of Neruda translations that [W. S. Merwin] did for the BBC at that time. I still have her copy. It wasn't just Neruda that helped her. It was the way she saw how Bill used Neruda. That wasn't her only supply line, but it was one."
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