'dying is an art...'Plath's second collection of poetry, published two years after her death and containing many of her best known poems. When published the Ariel poems created quite a stir on both sides of the Atlantic, not least because of its dark energy and forceful imagery. Plath brilliantly and courageously fuses the personal with the universal. Perhaps the most famous, still, of the Ariel poems are Lady Lazarus - 'Out of the ash / I rise with my red hair / And I eat men like air', and Daddy - 'There's a stake in your fat black heart...'First edition, first impression; 8vo; publisher's red cloth, titles to spine gilt, with the unclipped dustjacket, minor edge-wear; an unusually fine copy in the dustjacket with none of the usual splitting to folds or loss to the spine panel.
