- Ariel (Plath)
"Ariel" is the second book of
Sylvia Plath 's poetry to be published, in 1965, two years after her death by suicide; most of the poems included in it had been selected by her.Contents (1965 version)
Poems marked with a * were not in Plath's original manuscript, but were added by Hughes. Most of them date from the last few weeks of Plath's life.
# Morning Song
# The Couriers
# Sheep in Fog *
# The Applicant
#Lady Lazarus
# Tulips
# Cut
# Elm
# The Night Dances
# Poppies in October
# Berck-Plage
# Ariel
# Death & Co.
# Lesbos - (This poem is censored in some conservative publications)
# Nick and the Candlestick
# Gulliver
# Getting There
# Medusa
# The Moon and the Yew Tree *
# A Birthday Present
# Mary's Song * (only in US version)
# Letter in November
# The Rival
# Daddy
# You're
# Fever 103°
# The Bee Meeting
# The Arrival of the Bee Box
# Stings
# The Swarm * (only in US version)
# Wintering
# The Hanging Man *
# Little Fugue *
# Years *
#The Munich Mannequins
# Totem *
# Paralytic *
# Balloons *
# Poppies in July *
# Kindness *
# Contusion *
# Edge *
# Words *Additional poems in her manuscript
# The Rabbit Catcher
# Thalidomide
# Barren Woman
# A Secret
# The Jailor
# The Detective
# Magi
# The Other
# Stopped Dead
# The Courage of Shutting-Up
# Purdah
# AmnesiacExternal links
* [http://www.slate.com/id/2110754/ Slate.com article about publication of restored Ariel]
* [http://www.sylviaplath.info/ariel.html image of book cover]
* [http://www.arlindo-correia.com/080405.html collection of articles on the new edition]
* [http://www.art.man.ac.uk/english/manuscript/plath.htm Charlotte Crofts (1995), ""The Peanut Crunching Crowd" in the work of Sylvia Plath: Holocaust as Spectacle?" vol. 1, no. 1, Autumn] (an article on Plath's use of holocaust imagery in 'Daddy' and 'Lady Lazarus' amongst other poems).
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