Sylvia Plath Ariel Hardback Book

It is sixty years since Ariel was first published. This heritage edition restores Berthold Wolpes iconic jacket and reproduces the original distinctive typesetting in celebration of the enduring importance of a collection that contains many of Sylvia Plaths bestknown poems. Written in an extraordinary burst of creativity just before her death in 1963, the poems are as expressive of joy as they are of desolation. The remarkable combination of artistry and intensity that was recognised on this volumes first publication established Plath as one of the most original and gifted poets of the twentieth century. 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, Observer | Sylvia Plath Ariel Hardback Book