Ariel : A Facsimile of Plaths Manuscript, Reinstating Her Original Selection and Arrangement

English

ISBN: 0060732598

EAN: 9780060732592

Category: Poetry / General

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

Release Date: 12/05/2004

Synopsis: Upon the publication of her posthumous volume of poetry, Ariel, in the mid-1960s, Sylvia Plath became a household name. Readers may be surprised to learn that the draft of Ariel left behind by Sylvia Plath when she died in 1963 is different from the volume of poetry eventually published to worldwide acclaim. This facsimile edition restores, for the first time, the selection and arrangement of the poems as Sylvia Plath left them at the point of her death. In addition to the facsimile pages of Sylvia Plaths manuscript, this edition also includes in facsimile the complete working drafts of the title poem, Ariel, in order to offer a sense of Plaths creative process, as well as notes the author made for the BBC about some of the manuscripts poems. In her insightful foreword to this volume, Frieda Hughes, Sylvia Plaths daughter, explains the reasons for the differences between the previously published edition of Ariel as edited by her father, Ted Hughes, and her mothers original version published here. With this publication, Sylvia Plaths legacy and vision will be re-evaluated in the light of her original working draft.

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Ariel : A Facsimile of Plaths Manuscript, Reinstating Her Original Selection and Arrangement

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Format: Hardcover

Height: 0.88 inches

Width: 6.25 inches

Length: 9.25 inches

Weight: 17.25 oz

Pages: 240