Sylvia Plath

'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 Sylvia 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 critic Al Alvarez, reviewing the collection in the Observer, wrote: 'If the poems are despairing, vengeful and destructive, they are at the same time tender, open to things, and also unusually clever, sardonic, hardminded . . . They are works of great artistic purity and, despite all the nihilism, great generosity . . . the book is a major literary event.'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.

It is sixty years since Ariel was first published. This heritage edition restores Berthold Wolpe's iconic jacket and reproduces the original distinctive typesetting in celebration of the enduring importance of a collection that contains many of Sylvia Plath's best-known poems.Written in an extraordinary burst of creativity just before her death in 1963, the poems are as expressive of joy as they are of desolation. The remarkable combination of artistry and intensity that was recognised on this volume's first publication established Plath as one of the most original and gifted poets of the twentieth century.'If the poems are despairing, vengeful and destructive, they are at the same time tender, open to things, and also unusually clever, sardonic, hardminded. . . They are works of great artistic purity and, despite all the nihilism, great generosity. . . the book is a major literary event.' A. Alvarez, Observer

The poems in Sylvia Plath's Ariel, including many of her best-known such as 'Lady Lazarus', 'Daddy', 'Edge' and 'Paralytic', were all written between the publication in 1960 of Plath's first book, The Colossus, and her death in 1963. 'If the poems are despairing, vengeful and destructive, they are at the same time tender, open to things, and also unusually clever, sardonic, hardminded . . . They are works of great artistic purity and, despite all the nihilism, great generosity . . . the book is a major literary event.' A. Alvarez in the Observer This beautifully designed edition forms part of a series of ten titles celebrating Faber's publishing over the decades.

An acclaimed anthology of vivid and emotionally shattering poems, written during the last months of Plath's short life, is accompanied by a brief author profile and an incisive foreword by Robert Lowell. Reprint.

Ariel, first published in 1965, contains many of Sylvia Plath's best-known poems, written in an extraordinary burst of creativity just before her death in 1963. Including poems such as 'Lady Lazarus', 'Edge', 'Daddy' and 'Paralytic', it was the first of four collections to be published by Faber & Faber. Ariel is the volume on which Sylvia Plath's reputation as one of the most original, daring and gifted poets of the twentieth century rests.'Since she died my mother has been dissected, analysed, reinterpreted, reinvented, fictionalized, and in some cases completely fabricated. It comes down to this: her own words describe her best, her ever-changing moods defining the way she viewed her world and the manner in which she pinned down her subjects with a merciless eye.' Frieda Hughes

It is sixty years since Ariel was first published. This heritage edition restores Berthold Wolpe's iconic jacket and reproduces the original distinctive typesetting to celebrate the enduring importance of a collection that contains many of Sylvia Plath's best-known poems.Written in an extraordinary burst of creativity just before her death in 1963, the poems are as expressive of joy as they are of desolation. The remarkable combination of artistry and intensity that was recognised on this volume's first publication established Plath as one of the most original and gifted poets of the twentieth century.'If the poems are despairing, vengeful and destructive, they are at the same time tender,open to things, and also unusually clever, sardonic, hardminded . . . They are works of great artistic purity and, despite all the nihilism, great generosity . . . the book is a major literary event.' A Alvarez, Observer

"What I fear most, I think, is the death of the imagination. . . . If I sit still and don't do anything, the world goes on beating like a slack drum, without meaning. We must be moving, working, making dreams to run toward; The poverty of life without dreams is too horrible to imagine." -- Sylvia Plath, "Cambridge Notes" (From Notebooks, February 1956)Renowned for her poetry, Sylvia Plath was also a brilliant writer of prose. This collection of short stories, essays, and diary excerpts highlights her fierce concentration on craft, the vitality of her intelligence, and the yearnings of her imagination. Featuring an introduction by Plath's husband, the late British poet Ted Hughes, these writings also reflect themes and images she would fully realize in her poetry. Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams truly showcases the talent and genius of Sylvia Plath.

The poems in Sylvia Plath's Ariel, including many of her best-known such as 'Lady Lazarus', 'Daddy', 'Edge' and 'Paralytic', were all written between the publication in 1960 of Plath's first book, The Colossus, and her death in 1963.'If the poems are despairing, vengeful and destructive, they are at the same time tender, open to things, and also unusually clever, sardonic, hardminded . . . They are works of great artistic purity and, despite all the nihilism, great generosity . . . the book is a major literary event.' A. Alvarez in the Observer

Nudgers and shoversIn spite of ourselves. Our kind multiplies:We shall by morning Inherit the earth . . . Delve deep into the undergrowth and explore the underfoot world of mushrooms through the breathtaking words of Pulitzer Prize winner, Sylvia Plath. Discover their many colours and hues, their ability to break through any terrain and their determination to not be ignored. In her eyes, it is a world rooted in nature, resilience and womanhood. With stunning illustrations from artist Aitch, this is a sumptuous book to be adored and treasured. The perfect gift for lovers of poetry, nature and those who find beauty in the overlooked.

Tehdessään itsemurhan helmikuun 11. päivänä 1963 Sylvia Plath jätti kirjoituspöydälleen mustan jousisidotun kansion, jossa oli neljäkymmentä runoa sisältävä käsikirjoitus: Ariel ja muita runoja.Näihin runoihin perustuu Plathin maine yhtenä 1900-luvun omaperäisimmistä, rohkeimmista ja lahjakkaimmista runoilijoista. Käsikirjoitus julkaistiin kaksi vuotta myöhemmin Plathin lesken Ted Hughesin toimittamana laitoksena. Hughes järjesteli alkuperäistä käsikirjoitusta uudelleen, poisti siitä joitakin runoja ja lisäsi toisia tilalle. Vuonna 1983 julkaistu Kirsti Simonsuuren suomennos pohjautui tähän laitokseen. Anni Sumarin uusi suomennos seuraa tarkasti Plathin alkuperäistä käsikirjoitusta, joka julkaistiin ensimmäisen kerran Isossa-Britanniassa faksimilelaitoksena vuonna 2004. Kokoelma esittelee Plathin tunnetuimman teoksen siten kuin Plath itse jätti sen julkaistavaksi. Se sisältää neljä aiemmin suomentamatonta runoa ja 13 Hughesin toimittamasta laitoksesta poisjätettyä runoa. Plathin ja Hughesin tyttären Frieda Plathin jälkisanat valottavat kulttiteoksen syntyhistoriaa, vastaanottoa ja myöhempää vaikutusta.

Kun Esther Greenwood voittaa kirjoituskilpailun ja saa harjoittelupaikan newyorkilaisessa muotilehdessä, hän uskoo vihdoin toteuttavansa unelmansa ja tulevansa kirjailijaksi. Cocktail-kutsujen ja käsikirjoituskasojen keskellä Estherin elämä alkaa kuitenkin riistäytyä käsistä. Hän syöksyy vakavaan masennukseen. Itsemurhayritys vie Estherin psykiatrisen sairaalan suljetulle osastolle. Lasikello on ravisteleva ja pisteliään ironinen kertomus nuoren naisen elämästä ja kunnianhimosta yhteiskunnassa, joka kieltäytyy ottamasta naisia vakavasti. Samalla se on intiimi kuvaus ihmismielen särkymisestä ja murskaavasta ulkopuolisuudesta. Kaijamari Sivillin uusi suomennos tekee kunniaa Plathin ajattomalle mestariteokselle.

Una nueva edici n de la novela ic nica de Sylvia Plath, con traducci n in dita de Eugenia V zquez Nacarino y pr logo de Aixa de la Cruz, que da una nueva lectura en pleno reflujo de la m s reciente oleada feminista. Respir profundamente y escuch el antiguo estribillo de mi coraz n. Yo soy, yo soy, yo soy . Esta es la historia de una chica que tiene todo lo que una joven puede desear en el Nueva York de los a os cincuenta: una carrera prometedora, un pretendiente que estudia medicina y toda una vida por delante. Esther Greenwood ha ganado una beca para trabajar en una revista de moda en la gran ciudad y siente que por fin podr realizar su sue o de ser escritora. Pero entre c cteles, noches de fiesta y pilas de manuscritos descubre una sociedad que repudia las aspiraciones de las mujeres y su vida empieza a desmoronarse. Esther -alter ego de la autora- se encierra en s misma, como si estuviera atrapada en una campana de cristal: respirando continuamente el mismo aire viciado y sin posibilidad de escapar. M s de cincuenta a os despu s de su publicaci n original, La campana de cristal se ha convertido en un cl sico moderno, y las palabras de Plath, con la nueva traducci n de Eugenia V zquez Nacarino, conservan todo su impacto. Esta obra ic nica, como dice Aixa de la Cruz en el pr logo, viaja al presente como una corriente el ctrica y nos interpela de t a t , sin mediaciones . ENGLISH DESCRIPTION A new edition of Sylvia Plath's iconic novel, with an unpublished translation by Eugenia V zquez Nacarino and a foreword by Aixa de la Cruz, offering a new interpretation in the midst of the latest feminist wave. "A coming-of-age masterpiece." --Boston Globe "It is this perfectly wrought prose and the freshness of Plath's voice in The Bell Jar that make this book enduring in its appeal." --USA Today The Bell Jar is Sylvia Plath's masterwork―an acclaimed and timeless work of psychological fiction about a young woman falling into the grip of mental illness and societal pressures. The story chronicles the breakdown of Esther Greenwood, a bright, beautiful, enormously talented college student facing a profound identity crisis while coming of age in 1950s America, as she navigates the pressures of society along with her own ambitions. While at a prestigious, competitively won position at a New York City magazine one summer, Esther finds herself struggling with the looming expectations of marriage, motherhood, and giving up on her dreams to achieve them. She becomes increasingly disillusioned and her mental health deteriorates, ultimately leading her to undergo harsh treatment and therapy. "Funny, intense, enormously human" (Cosmopolitan), The Bell Jar is a poignant exploration into the darkest and most harrowing corners of the human psyche and remains an extraordinary accomplishment from one of the country's most luminous talents.

The complete edition of Sylvia Plath's prose including much unpublished and previously uncollected material, edited by Peter K. Steinberg. The Collected Prose stands alongside the Journals (2000) and the two volume Letters (2017 and 2018) to support a more complete understanding of Sylvia Plath's ambition and achievement as a writer. Expanding on the selection published as Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams (1977), this volume draws together all of Sylvia Plath's shorter prose, much of which is previously uncollected and unpublished. The volume embraces her experiments with the short story and pieces of non-fiction from the 1940s through to her more polished compositions of the fifties and early sixties, including fragments of fiction as well as her journalism and book reviews. Themes and associations become apparent as the volume offers new, intertextual ways of reading across Plath's oeuvre, colouring and shading our understanding and appreciation of her extraordinary talent. 'To see so much of [Plath's] surviving fiction and journalism, so many of her essays and reviews, finally published under one cover is to be surprised all over again by the breadth of her vision, ambition and talent . . . A major literary event and an invaluable scholarly resource.' Heather Clark, TLS From reviews of The Letters of Sylvia Plath, Volume I: 1940-1956 and Volume II: 1956-1963: 'Sylvia Plath was not only a great poet, she also forged some of the best prose of the twentieth century. . . she wrote letters of extraordinary wit and vivacity. Their publication is a major literary event.' The Times 'These letters are by turns poignant, revelatory, banal, hilarious and self-absorbed, documenting as they do the changing moods, ambitions and intellectual and creative development of one of the twentieth century's most celebrated poets.' Evening Standard 'Such was the impact of [Plath's] exploration of both inner and outer landscapes in staggeringly intense, brutal and lyrical language that her loss to the literary world has been mourned ever since.' Financial Times

Sylvia Plath's first Collected Poems was published in 1981. This new volume draws on decades of research and almost doubles the content of that previous edition. The book is in two parts. It begins with the poems Plath composed in the last ten years of her life and on which her reputation is founded, and follows with those poems written in childhood and through her student years. In both sections the editors date, correct and arrange each poem chronologically, drawing on manuscripts, typescripts and related material. Critical notes help document Plath's extraordinary evolution as a poet, from her childhood compositions through to the blossoming of early ambition and into the molten core that was to shape the poems of her last few years and secure her place in literary history.

Una nueva edici n de la novela ic nica de Sylvia Plath, con traducci n in dita de Eugenia V zquez Nacarino y pr logo de Aixa de la Cruz, que da una nueva lectura en pleno reflujo de la m s reciente oleada feminista.«Respir profundamente y escuch el antiguo estribillo de mi coraz n. Yo soy, yo soy, yo soy .Esta es la historia de una chica que tiene todo lo que una joven puede desear en el Nueva York de los a os cincuenta: una carrera prometedora, un pretendiente que estudia medicina y toda una vida por delante. Esther Greenwood ha ganado una beca para trabajar en una revista de moda en la gran ciudad y siente que por fin podr realizar su sue o de ser escritora. Pero entre c cteles, noches de fiesta y pilas de manuscritos descubre una sociedad que repudia las aspiraciones de las mujeres y su vida empieza a desmoronarse. Esther -alter ego de la autora- se encierra en s misma, como si estuviera atrapada en una campana de cristal: respirando continuamente el mismo aire viciado y sin posibilidad de escapar. M s de cincuenta a os despu s de su publicaci n original, La campana de cristal se ha convertido en un cl sico moderno, y las palabras de Plath, con la nueva traducci n de Eugenia V zquez Nacarino, conservan todo su impacto. Esta obra ic nica, como dice Aixa de la Cruz en el pr logo, «viaja al presente como una corriente el ctrica y nos interpela de t a t , sin mediaciones . ENGLISH DESCRIPTION One of The Atlantic's Great American Novels"A coming-of-age masterpiece." --Boston Globe"It is this perfectly wrought prose and the freshness of Plath's voice in The Bell Jar that make this book enduring in its appeal." --USA TodaySylvia Plath's masterwork--an acclaimed and enduring novel about a young woman falling into the grip of mental illness and societal pressures Esther Greenwood is brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, and successful, but slowly going under--maybe for the last time. In her acclaimed and enduring masterwork, Sylvia Plath brilliantly draws the reader into Esther's breakdown with such intensity that her insanity becomes palpably real, even rational--as accessible an experience as going to the movies. A deep penetration into the darkest and most harrowing corners of the human psyche, The Bell Jar is an extraordinary accomplishment and a haunting American classic.

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