Ariel

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'I rise with my red hair / And I eat men like air.' It is sixty years since Ariel was first published. The poems were written in an extraordinary burst of creativity just before Sy lvia Plath's death in 1963, and they went on to establish her reputation as one of the most original and gifted poets of the twentieth century. The poet Emily Berry offers an introduction that gives readers, old and new, a way into the poems, and demonstrates Plath's profound and enduring influence down the generations. Show more