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)
The poems in Sylvia Plath's Ariel, including many of her best-known
such as 'Lady Lazarus', 'Daddy', 'Edge' and 'Paralytic', were all
written between the publication in 1960 of Plath's 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
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