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This edition of Ariel by Sylvia Plath, introduced by Frieda Hughes, is a Faber Modern Classics edition of the volume upon which rests Plath´s reputation as one of the most original, daring and gifted poets of the twentieth century.

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Ariel, first published in 1965, contains many of Sylvia Plath´s best-known poems, written in an extraordinary burst of creativity just before her death in 1963. Including poems such as ´Lady Lazarus´, ´Edge´, ´Daddy´ and ´Paralytic´, it was the first of four collections to be published by Faber & Faber. Ariel is the volume on which Sylvia Plath´s reputation as one of the most original, daring and gifted poets of the twentieth century rests.

´Since she died my mother has been dissected, analysed, reinterpreted, reinvented, fictionalized, and in some cases completely fabricated. It comes down to this: her own words describe her best, her ever-changing moods defining the way she viewed her world and the manner in which she pinned down her subjects with a merciless eye.´ - from Frieda Hughes´s introduction to Ariel

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Plath, Sylvia
Sylvia Plath (1932-63) 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.

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