Ariel: The Restored Edition: A Facsimile of Plath s Manuscript, Reinstating Her Original Selection and Arrangement (Modern Classics)
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Sylvia Plath s famous collection, as she intended it.
When Sylvia Plath died, she not only left behind a prolific life but also her unpublished literary masterpiece, Ariel. When her husband, Ted Hughes, first brought this collection to life, it garnered worldwide acclaim, though it wasn t the draft Sylvia had wanted her readers to see. This facsimile edition restores, for the first time, Plath s original manuscript -- including handwritten notes -- and her own selection and arrangement of poems. This edition also includes in facsimile the complete working drafts of her poem "Ariel," which provide a rare glimpse into the creative process of a beloved writer. This publication introduces a truer version of Plath s works, and will no doubt alter her legacy forever.
This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.
Sylvia Plath churned out her final poems at the remarkable rate of two or three a day, and Robert Lowell describes them as written by "hardly a person at all ... but one of those super-real, hypnotic, great classical heroines." Even more remarkable, she wrote them during one of the coldest, snowiest winters (1962-63) Londoners have ever known. Snowbound, without central heating, she and her two children spent much of their time sniffling, coughing, or running temperatures (In "Fever 103°" she writes, "I have been flickering, off, on, off on. / The sheets grow heavy as a lecher s kiss."). Pipes froze, lights failed, and candles were unobtainable.As if these physical privations weren t enough, Plath was out in the cold in another sense--her husband, Ted Hughes, had left her for another woman earlier that year. Despite all this (or perhaps because of it), the Ariel poems dazzle with their lyricism, their surprising and vivid imagery, and their wit. Rather than confining herself to her bleak surroundings, Plath draws from a wide array of experience. In "Berck-Plage," for instance, clouds are "electrifyingly-coloured sherbets, scooped from the freeze." In "The Night Dances," the poet stands crib-side, reveling in her son s own brand of do-si-do: "Such pure leaps and spirals--Surely they travel / The world forever, I shall not entirely / Sit emptied of beauties, the gift / Of your small breath..."
Though at times they present the reader with hopelessness laid bare, these poems also teem with the brightest shards of a life, confounding those who merely look for the words of a gloomy, dispassionate suicide. Plath rose each morning in the final months of her life to "that still blue, almost eternal hour before the baby s cry" and left us these words like "axes/After whose stroke the wood rings..." Author: Sylvia PlathBinding: PaperbackBrand: Plath, Sylvia/ Hughes, Frieda (FRW)EAN: 9780060732608Edition: ReprintFeature: Harper Perennial Modern ClassicsIsAdultProduct: ISBN: 0060732601Label: Harper Perennial Modern ClassicsManufacturer: Harper Perennial Modern ClassicsMPN: IllustratedNumberOfItems: 1NumberOfPages: 256PackageQuantity: 1PartNumber: IllustratedProductGroup: BookProductTypeName: ABIS_BOOKPublicationDate: 2005-10-25Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern ClassicsReleaseDate: 2005-10-25Studio: Harper Perennial Modern ClassicsTitle: Ariel: The Restored Edition: A Facsimile of Plath s Manuscript, Reinstating Her Original Selection and Arrangement (Modern Classics)
