Ariel

"In these poems...Sylvia Plath becomes herself, becomes something imaginary, newly, wildly and subtly created."
— From the Introduction by Robert Lowell

Critical Quarterly

Sylvia Plath's last poems have impressed themselves on many readers with the force of myth. They are among the handful of writings by which future generations will seek to know us and give us a name.

She appeared soft, and was known for the way her difficult, emotionally ravaged life bled itself onto the page. But Sylvia Plath was and is powerful, a fact evident in her poems, her autobiographical novel The Bell Jar, and the success of the major motion picture, Sylvia starring Gwenyth Paltrow.