Ariel

Ariel

Sylvia Plath's celebrated collection.

When Sylvia Plath died, she not only left behind a prolific life but also her unpublished literary masterpiece, Ariel. Her husband, Ted Hughes, brought the collection to life in 1966, and its publication garnered worldwide acclaim. This collection showcases the beloved poet’s brilliant, provoking, and always moving poems, including "Ariel" and once again shows why readers have fallen in love with her work throughout the generations.

Title : Ariel
Edition Language : English
ISBN : 9780060931728
Format Type :

    Ariel Reviews

  • Paul Bryant

    Inspired by Paul Legault's brilliant idea of translating Emily Dickinson's poems into English, I thought immediately - I have to steal that idea. So here are some of the Ariel poems of Sylvia Plath tr...

  • Ahmad Sharabiani

    Ariel, Sylvia PlathSylvia Plath was an American poet, novelist, and short-story writer. She is credited with advancing the genre of confessional poetry and is best known for two of her published colle...

  • Manny

    When I was a kid, I loved stories about intrepid explorers who visited places no one had ever seen before, and died heroically in the attempt. I guess Scott of the Antarctic is the canonical example -...

  • Dolors

    Either disturbed by some haunting, otherworldly presence or simply because of the purring birdsong I awake on the early hours of this winter morning and I grab Sylvia Plath’s collection of poems Ari...

  • Jon Nakapalau

    Haunting and honest - a scalpel that cuts so deep and quick you don't even feel it. ...

  • Duane

    What do I think? I honestly don't know. My favorite poems were Elm, The Moon and the Yew Tree, and Edge. I admit that Sylvia Plath's poetry may be beyond my ability to fullly understand. I have The Co...

  • Tara

    “Cold glass, how you insert yourselfBetween myself and myself.I scratch like a cat.” These poems are jagged, visceral, and very, very raw. They’re angry and bruised, “extravagant, like tort...

  • 7jane

    A collection released two years after her death, written in a grand burst of creativity just before death... I had to get this mainly because of the cover, but I can say that though I have the 'all po...

  • Whitney Atkinson

    I'm wanting to get into more poetry, but I have to classify books of poetry in two categories: poems I understood, and poems I didn't. The majority of these poems went over my head. I saw in a previou...

  • Asghar Abbas

    I picked this up last night, wanting to read just one poem, The Moon and the Yew Tree specifically, but I ended up reading all of them, the entire book. I won't pretend to understand what most of her ...