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Ariel: The Restored Edition
Ariel: The Restored Edition | Sylvia Plath
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Upon the publication of her posthumous volume of poetry Ariel in 1965, Sylvia Plath became a household name. Readers may be surprised to learn that the draft of Ariel left behind by 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 Sylvia Plath left at the point of her death. In addition to the facsimile pages of Sylvia Plath's manuscript, this edition also includes in facsimile the complete working drafts of the title poem 'Ariel' in order to offer a sense of Plath's creative process, as well as notes the author made for the BBC about some of the manuscript's poems, including 'Daddy' and 'Lady Lazarus' In her insightful foreword to this volume, Frieda Hughes, Sylvia Plath's daughter, explains the reasons for the differences between the previously published edition of Ariel as edited by her father, Ted Hughes, and her mother's original version published here. With this publication, Sylvia Plath's legacy and vision will be reevaluated in the light of her original working draft.
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BC_Dittemore
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As I‘ve stated, I loved The Bell Jar. But I‘m not in love with Plath‘s poetry. Indeed she was a talented poet; there are many amazing pieces in Ariel, and throughout Plath‘s oeuvre. But the details of her personal life are probably more known than that of any other poet, which puts the reader at odds with themselves and Sylvia.

Idk. A lot of thoughts, so little room.

Ariel deserves its accolades, but because of them, I expected something more.

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“I didn‘t want any flowers, I only wanted
to lie with my hands turned up and be utterly empty.
How free it is, you have no idea how free.”

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Beautifully written. I like how the metaphors are widely used in her collections of poems. I like Tulip the most because I like how she could use colours to describe her mental state.

I will never forget the line ‘Dying is a an art‘ from Lady Lazarus - a poem about resurrection.

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LapReader
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Lovely, sunny afternoon in Australia spent reading poetry in our hammock which is my favourite thing to do. Sylvia Plath just nails it. #perfection Afterwards we had 🌶 con carne with heaps of salad at the neighbours for dinner. The kids jumped on their trampoline the whole time! I just read them a chapter of Tom‘s Midnight Garden. Now Big Daddy is putting them to bed while I bathe in the luxurious smell of rose bubble bath & me time. What a day!

Cuilin Sounds perfect 4y
MrsMalaprop How utterly wonderful ❤️👏🙏. 4y
AmyG Does that sound delightful? 4y
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BarbaraBB Perfection indeed 👍🏽💕 4y
Suet624 That right there is called enjoying life. You radiate the joy of it all. 4y
CarolynM Lovely photo😍 4y
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Beautiful ❤️❤️ 4y
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Leftcoastzen
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Hello April! Hello Poetry month! I think we need it more than ever.Ideas , emotions, observations distilled to its pure essence!

batsy Fab collection. And that Mallarmé cover 😍 5y
Tanisha_A 😍 5y
Leftcoastzen @batsy it‘s an oldie from University of California Press 5y
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Itsbradleycole
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Loved loved loved.

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Qpri
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I know Plath gets mixed reviews. But if you liked The Bell Jar, her poetry will not disappoint!

readordierachel Cute socks 🙂 5y
Qpri @readordierachel The were a gift from secret Santa 😬😬 5y
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Naj
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Such a shame! I really wanted to like this one because I love The Bell Jar, but it was such a big disappointment and all of it didn't have to do strictly with the poems themselves. First off, I liked five poems from this collection and I could have easily found them online, for FREE (yes, I'm this bitter). There was racism - Black fetish and the N-word was used thrice. In 'Daddy', a poem about troubled father-daughter relationship, 👇

Naj she compares the father to a Nazi and herself to the plight of the Jews during the holocaust. The rest of the poems were too specific for anyone who didn't know her personally to comprehend. This was probably the worst thing I read this year. 6y
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Naj
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💜💜

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Naj
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Her poetry is as good as her novels 💚

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VioletBramble
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Mehso-so

If the moon smiled, she would resemble you.
You leave the same impression
Of something beautiful, but annihilating.
Both of you are great light borrowers.
Her O-mouth grieves at the world, yours is unaffected.

#PoetryChallenge2018 for October.

My first time reading the poetry of Sylvia Plath. While I found some stanzas and lines beautiful in their stark brutality, I didn't really like this collection over all. This is in your face darkness.

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JazmynLU
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Lady Lazarus

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reema
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Plath is intense, unrelenting, and unforgiving here. Her poems are strikingly, almost starkly, visual as if forcing you to see her own grim view. There is no flowery prose here. This is blood spattered across paper. Visceral and brutal.

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Merewuf
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Eggs
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Sylvia appears so youthful in the photos; then you realize she was only 30 when she passed. Her daughter Frieda Hughes writes the foreword and does a Q&A at the end; she too is a formidable poet. Through Frieda's insight we see Sylvia with more clarity. And btw SP's poems can be jarring and painful to read, which makes it all more poignant in retrospect.

Cathythoughts Beautiful review ❤️ 7y
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks I‘m going to read The Bell Jar next month... I want to read her journals also... 7y
Eggs Thank you @Cathythoughts 😍 ❤️ 7y
Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Good for you 💖her daughter recommends an SP biography called 7y
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs thank you!! I stacked it!! 7y
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hissingpotatoes
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Wondering about the username hissingpotatoes? It's from my favorite Sylvia Plath poem, Lesbos.

readordierachel Great username! Love Sylvia 💙 7y
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TK-421
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Picked up a journal and this book of poetry the other day. I've been wanting to reread Sylvia Plath for a long time, but I lost my copy of Selected Poems. I'm looking forward to reading this restored edition of Ariel. #PoetryChallenge2018

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GatheringBooks
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#QuotsyMar18 Day 6: A perspective on being #complete that is filled with dread, horror, darkness - only as Sylvia Plath depicts it.

UrsulaMonarch Wow! 🖤🖤🖤 7y
Louise How sad that she felt that way. Clearly incomplete. 7y
Cathythoughts ❤️Strong stuff 7y
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GatheringBooks @UrsulaMonarch i know right!! 🖤💔🖤 indeed. 7y
GatheringBooks @Louise how utterly bereft if this is what being complete means to her. 7y
GatheringBooks @Cathythoughts have you read the bell jar yet? i am now thinking of picking up ariel on the strength of this quote alone. :) 7y
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vicgreentoriafield
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Favorite book that starts with an "A"

#ALEXGIVEAWAY

Thanks, @Liberty !

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Christina__Cox
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2017 mood

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Kat_Reads
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I got my favorite lady for Christmas! 😍

vivastory Love, love Sylvia Plath. 8y
TrishB Cool 😀 8y
Kat_Reads @vivastory I do too! The bell jar changed my life 8y
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Lindy When my Feminist Book Club discussed Ariel, we had 4 different editions among us, so we also talked about choices made in compiling the poetry -original American & British are significantly different - and how that affects the reading experience. It was a memorable evening. 8y
blondie I've yet to read this, but I really want to! 💖 8y
Kat_Reads @Lindy that's so cool! I'm jealous you have a feminist book club!! 8y
Kat_Reads @blondie I'll let you know how it is :) 8y
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HannahMarie1
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"It is love you are full of. You know who you hate. He is hugging his ball and chain down by the gate." ?

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DeeLew
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A few of my text only covers. 😊📚#textonlycovers #booktober

DeeLew Unfortunately, 2 of the books got cropped out of the photo. 😆 8y
RanaElizabeth #blameitonlitsy for poor cropping! That gets me sometimes too! 😎 8y
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