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English
Faber & Faber
03 July 2025
'The world is blood-hot and personal': in her moving and illuminating introduction, the poet Emily Berry remembers her own teenage encounters with Ariel and offers a personal way into this definitive collection. She shows us how Plath can crystallize our most volatile emotions, transforming them into images so potent and precise that they resonate with us all. Plath has been an inspiration to successive generations; her influence, enduring and profound.

'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, 1965
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Imprint:   Faber & Faber
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Edition:   Main - Re-issue
Dimensions:   Height: 198mm,  Width: 129mm, 
ISBN:   9780571394777
ISBN 10:   0571394779
Pages:   104
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Sylvia Plath was born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1932. She graduated from Smith College in 1955 and went on a Fulbright scholarship to Cambridge University, where she met and later married Ted Hughes. In her lifetime she published one novel, The Bell Jar (1963), and one volume of poetry, The Colossus (1960).

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