Ariel

The poems in Sylvia Plath's Ariel; including many of her best-known such as 'Lady Lazarus'; 'Daddy'; 'Edge' and 'Paralytic'; were all written between the publication in 1960 of Plath's first book; The Colossus; and her death in 1963. '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 in the Observer This beautifully designed edition forms part of a series of ten titles celebrating Faber's publishing over the decades.