Ariel by Sylvia Plath (English) Paperback Book

Description: Ariel by Sylvia Plath These poems are, in Robert Lowells words, events rather than the record of events, and as such, represent the triumph of the poets romantic ambition. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description The poems in this book, including many of her best known such as Lady Lazarus, Daddy and Fever 103, were all written between the publication in 1960 of Sylvia Plaths first book, The Colossus, and her death in 1963.If the poems are despairing, vengeful and destructive, they are at the same time tender, open to things, and also unusually clever, sardonic, hardminded . . . They are works of great artistic purity and, despite all the nihilism, great generosity . . . the book is a major literary event.A. Alvarez in the Observer. Notes First published in 1965. SEE NEW COVER EDITION (with Bertrams ISBN 0202007758). Author Biography Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and studied at Smith College. In 1955 she went to Cambridge University on a Fulbright scholarship, where she met and later married Ted Hughes. She published one collection of poems in her lifetime, The Colossus (1960), and a novel, The Bell Jar (1963). Her Collected Poems, which contains her poetry written from 1956 until her death, was published in 1981 and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry. Review "Sylvia Plaths last poems have impressed themselves on many readers with the force of myth. They are among the handful of writings by which future generations will seek to know us and give us a name."-- "Critical Quarterly""It is fair to say that no group of poems since Dylam Thomass "Deaths and Entrances" has had as vivid and disturbing an impact on English critics and readers as has "Ariel." Sylvia Plaths poems have already passed into legend as both representative of our present tone of emotional life and unique in their implacable, harsh brilliance...These poems take tremendous risks, extending Sylvia Plaths essentially austere manner to the very limit. They are a bitter triumph, proof of the capacity of poetry to give to reality the greater permanence of the imagined. She could not return from them."-- George Steiner, "The Reporter" Promotional Ariel is the volume upon which rests Sylvia Plaths reputation as one of the most original, daring and gifted poets of the twentieth century. Kirkus US Review Wife of poet Ted Hughes, mother of two children, Miss Plath published a first book of poetry in 1960, and died in 1963, aged thirty. Fragments of this brief biography whirl through this extraordinary, fiery, and fiercely lucid poetry. Children are seen with intense love, but also as cool, vast, mythic. Flowers, landscapes, bees, people, time, are also viewed with extreme simplicity and with the tremendous power of myth. But it is Death that dominates the volume; not as a macabre figure but as a vantage point, a savage, impersonal magnifying glass that heightens all perceptions to a terrible, almost Joyous, burning sense of a reality not only stripped and being stripped of all the normal baggage of life, but seen all anew, and for the last time. The many poems about death and dying have a splendor, a purity and violence, that is far beyond merely personal statement. A remarkable, hauntingly vivid book. (Kirkus Reviews) Long Description These poems are, in Robert Lowells words, events rather than the record of events, and as such, represent the triumph of the poets romantic ambition. The poems in this book, including many of her best known such as Lady Lazarus, Daddy and Fever 103, were all written between the publication in 1960 of Sylvia Plaths first book, The Colossus, and her death in 1963.If the poems are despairing, vengeful and destructive, they are at the same time tender, open to things, and also unusually clever, sardonic, hardminded . . . They are works of great artistic purity and, despite all the nihilism, great generosity . . . the book is a major literary event. A. Alvarez in the Observer . Promotional "Headline" Ariel is the volume upon which rests Sylvia Plaths reputation as one of the most original, daring and gifted poets of the twentieth century. Details ISBN0571086268 Author Sylvia Plath ISBN-10 0571086268 ISBN-13 9780571086269 Format Paperback Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Birth 1932 Death 1963 Media Book Edition 1st Language English Publisher Faber & Faber Pages 96 Imprint Faber & Faber Audience Age 0-0 DEWEY 811.54 Series Faber Poetry UK Release Date 2001-05-08 Year 2001 Publication Date 2001-05-08 AU Release Date 2001-05-08 NZ Release Date 2005-06-30 Edition Description Main Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:587035;

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