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
SYLVIA PLATH
Sylvia Plath 1932-63 was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and studied at Smith College. In 1955 she went to Cambridge University on a Fulbright scholarship, where she met and later married Ted Hughes. She published one collection of poems in her lifetime, The Colossus 1960 , and a novel, The Bell Jar 1963 . Her Collected Poems, which contains her poetry written from 1956 until her death, was published in 1981 and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry.
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PLATH SYLVIA
Nació en 1932 en Boston, Massachussets, y falleció en 1963 en Londres. Además de ser una de las grandes poetas del siglo XX, publicó ensayos literarios y esta conmovedora novela autobiográfica, La campana de cristal, publicada por primera vez en 1963. De sus libros de poesía se destacan Ariel 1956 y El coloso y otros poemas 1960 . Estuvo casada con el escritor Ted Hughes, quien tras su muerte se encargó de la edición de su poesía completa. En 1982 ganó un Premio Pulitzer póstumo por The Collected Poems.
