About the Book: Ariel: Faber Modern Classics
Ariel, first published in 1965, contains many of Sylvia Plaths 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 and Faber. Ariel is the
volume on which Sylvia Plaths 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