The response of one writer to the work of another can be doubly illuminating In this series a poet selects & introduces another poet whom they have particularly admired Ted Hughes's classic selection of Sylvia Plath's poetry provides the perfect introduction to a major body of work in twentieth-century poetry Hughes draws upon the collections Ariel The Colossus Crossing the Water & Winter Trees & from Sylvia Plath's Pulitzer Prize-winning Collected Poems