Upon the publication of her posthumous volume of poetry Ariel in 1965 Sylvia Plath became a household name Readers may be surprised to learn that the draft of Ariel left behind by Plath when she died in 1963 is different from the volume of poetry eventually published to worldwide acclaim This facsimile edition restores for the first time the selection & arrangement of the poems Sylvia Plath left at the point of her death In addition to the facsimile pages of Sylvia Plath's manuscript this edition also
Includes:: in facsimile the complete working drafts of the title poem ' Ariel' in order to offer a sense of Plath's creative process as well as notes the author made for the BBC about some of the manuscript's poems including ' Daddy' & ' Lady Lazarus' In her insightful foreword to this volume Frieda Hughes Sylvia Plath's daughter explains the reasons for the differences between the previously published edition of Ariel as edited by her father Ted Hughes & her mother's original version published here With this publication Sylvia Plath's legacy & vision will be reevaluated in the light of her original working draft