Ariel S Gift Ted Hughes Sylvia Plath And The Story Of Birthday Letters

Author : Erica Wagner
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2002-04-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780393292671

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Ariel's Gift: Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, and the Story of Birthday Letters by Erica Wagner Pdf

"This erudite critical study...breathes new life into Plath scholarship."—Publishers Weekly, starred review When Ted Hughes's Birthday Letters was published in 1998, it was greeted with astonishment and acclaim, immediately landing on the bestseller list. Few suspected that Hughes had been at work for a quarter of a century on this cycle of poems addressed to his first wife, Sylvia Plath. In Ariel's Gift, Erica Wagner explores the destructive relationship between these two poets through their lives and their writings. She provides a commentary to the poems in Birthday Letters, showing the events that shaped them and, crucially, showing how they draw upon Plath's own work. "Both narratively engaging and scholastically comprehensive."—Thomas Lynch, Los Angeles Times "Wagner has set the poems of Hughes's Birthday Letters in the context of his marriage to Plath with great delicacy."—Times Literary Supplement

Author : Erica Wagner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Marriage in literature
ISBN : OCLC:913959836

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Ariel's Gift by Erica Wagner Pdf

Author : Erica Wagner
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-08
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780571329427

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Ariel's Gift by Erica Wagner Pdf

Erica Wagner provides a comprehensive guide to the poems that must constitute one of the most extraordinary and powerful volumes published in the last century. When Ted Hughes's Birthday Letters was published in 1998, it was greeted with astonishment and acclaim. Few suspected that Ted Hughes had been at work, for a quarter of a century, on a cycle of poems addressed almost entirely to his first wife, the American poet Sylvia Plath. In Ariel's Gift, Erica Wagner offers a commentary on the poems, pointing the reader towards the events that shaped them, and, crucially, showing how they draw upon Plath's own work.

Author : Erica Wagner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : English poetry
ISBN : 0571200850

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Ariel's Gift by Erica Wagner Pdf

'Erica Wagner has set the poems of Ted Hughes's Birthday Letters in the context of his marriage to Sylvia Plath with great delicacy . . . Her book is informed not only by Plath's journals and letters, but, more significantly, moonlit throughout by Plath's poetry.' Times Literary Supplement 'A commentary on Birthday Letters, gravely unfurling the biographical journey for which these most openly personal of poems are signposts, amplifying and interpreting.' The Scotsman

Author : Ted Hughes
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2009-12-03
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780571258888

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Birthday Letters by Ted Hughes Pdf

Ted Hughes's Birthday Letters are addressed, with just two exceptions, to Sylvia Plath, the American poet to whom he was married. They were written over a period of more than twenty-five years, the first a few years after her suicide in 1963, and represent Ted Hughes's only account of his relationship with Plath and of the psychological drama that led both to the writing of her greatest poems and to her death. The book became an instant bestseller on its publication in 1998 and won the Forward Prize for Poetry in the same year. 'To read [ Birthday Letters] is to experience the psychic equivalent of "the bends". It takes you down to levels of pressure where the undertruths of sadness and endurance leave you gasping.' Seamus Heaney 'Even if it were possible to set aside its biographical value . . . its linguistic, technical and imaginative feats would guarantee its future. Hughes is one of the most important poets of the century and this is his greatest book.' Andrew Motion

Author : Sylvia Plath
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2005-10-25
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780060732608

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Ariel: The Restored Edition by Sylvia Plath Pdf

Sylvia Plath's famous collection, as she intended it. When Sylvia Plath died, she not only left behind a prolific life but also her unpublished literary masterpiece, Ariel. When her husband, Ted Hughes, first brought this collection to life, it garnered worldwide acclaim, though it wasn't the draft Sylvia had wanted her readers to see. This facsimile edition restores, for the first time, Plath's original manuscript -- including handwritten notes -- and her own selection and arrangement of poems. This edition also includes in facsimile the complete working drafts of her poem "Ariel," which provide a rare glimpse into the creative process of a beloved writer. This publication introduces a truer version of Plath's works, and will no doubt alter her legacy forever. This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.

Author : Sylvia Plath
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 936 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-04
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780571339228

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Letters of Sylvia Plath Volume II by Sylvia Plath Pdf

Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) was one of the writers that defined the course of twentieth-century poetry. Her vivid, daring and complex poetry continues to captivate new generations of readers and writers. In the Letters, we discover the art of Plath's correspondence. Most has never before been published, and it is here presented unabridged, without revision, so that she speaks directly in her own words. Refreshingly candid and offering intimate details of her personal life, Plath is playful, too, entertaining a wide range of addressees, including family, friends and professional contacts, with inimitable wit and verve. The letters document Plath's extraordinary literary development: the genesis of many poems, short and long fiction, and journalism. Her endeavour to publish in a variety of genres had mixed receptions, but she was never dissuaded. Through acceptance of her work, and rejection, Plath strove to stay true to her creative vision. Well-read and curious, she simultaneously offers a fascinating commentary on contemporary culture. Leading Plath scholar Peter K. Steinberg and Karen V. Kukil, editor of The Journals of Sylvia Plath 1950-1962, provide comprehensive footnotes and an extensive index informed by their meticulous research. Alongside a selection of photographs and Plath's own drawings, they masterfully contextualise what the pages disclose. This selection of later correspondence witnesses Plath and Hughes becoming major, influential contemporary writers, as it happened. Experiences recorded include first books and other publications; teaching; committing to writing full-time; travels; making professional acquaintances; settling in England; building a family; and buying a house. Throughout, Plath's voice is completely, uniquely her own.

Author : Anita Helle,Amanda Golden,Maeve O'Brien
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350119239

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The Bloomsbury Handbook to Sylvia Plath by Anita Helle,Amanda Golden,Maeve O'Brien Pdf

With chapters written by more than 25 leading and emerging international scholars, The Bloomsbury Handbook to Sylvia Plath provides the most comprehensive collection of contemporary scholarship on Plath's work. Including new scholarly perspectives from feminist and gender studies, critical race studies, medical humanities and disability studies, this collection explores: · Plath's literary contexts – from the Classics and the long poem to W.B Yeats, Edith Sitwell, Ruth Sillitoe, Carol Ann Duffy, and Ted Hughes · New insights from Plath's previously unpublished letters and writings · Plath's broadcasting work for the BBC Providing new approaches to her life and work, this book is an indispensable volume for scholars of Sylvia Plath.

Author : Sylvia Plath
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 1424 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-17
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780062740441

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The Letters of Sylvia Plath Volume 1 by Sylvia Plath Pdf

A major literary event: the first volume in the definitive, complete collection of the letters of Sylvia Plath—most never before seen. One of the most beloved poets of the modern age, Sylvia Plath continues to inspire and fascinate the literary world. While her renown as one of the twentieth century’s most influential poets is beyond dispute, Plath was also one of its most captivating correspondents. The Letters of Sylvia Plath is the breathtaking compendium of this prolific writer’s correspondence with more than 120 people, including family, friends, contemporaries, and colleagues. The Letters of Sylvia Plath includes her correspondence from her years at Smith, her summer editorial internship in New York City, her time at Cambridge, her experiences touring Europe, and the early days of her marriage to Ted Hughes in 1956. Most of the letters are previously unseen, including sixteen letters written by Plath to Hughes when they were apart after their honeymoon. This magnificent compendium also includes twenty-seven of Plath’s own elegant line drawings taken from the letters she sent to her friends and family, as well as twenty-two previously unpublished photographs. This remarkable, collected edition of Plath’s letters is a work of immense scholarship and care, presenting a comprehensive and historically accurate text of the known and extant letters that she wrote. Intimate and revealing, this masterful compilation offers fans and scholars generous and unprecedented insight into the life of one of our most significant poets.

Author : Sylvia Plath
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 767 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307429506

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The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath Pdf

The complete, uncensored journals of Sylvia Plath—essential reading for anyone who has been moved and fascinated by the poet's life and work. "A genuine literary event.... Plath's journals contain marvels of discovery." —The New York Times Book Review Sylvia Plath's journals were originally published in 1982 in a heavily abridged version authorized by Plath's husband, Ted Hughes. This new edition is an exact and complete transcription of the diaries Plath kept during the last twelve years of her life. Sixty percent of the book is material that has never before been made public, more fully revealing the intensity of the poet's personal and literary struggles, and providing fresh insight into both her frequent desperation and the bravery with which she faced down her demons.

Author : Jennifer D Ryan-Bryant
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2024-03-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1793614172

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Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, and Writing Between Them by Jennifer D Ryan-Bryant Pdf

Turning the Table offers a new resource to Hughes and Plath scholars studying the poets' archival materials and compositional processes. The book traces the theory of the ars poetica that each poet advanced while exploring the dialogues that emerged between Plath's Ariel and Hughes's Crow and Birthday Letters collections.

Author : Claire Raymond
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351883665

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The Posthumous Voice in Women's Writing from Mary Shelley to Sylvia Plath by Claire Raymond Pdf

This provocative book posits a new theory of women's writing characterized by what Claire Raymond calls 'the posthumous voice.'This suggestive term evokes the way that women's writing both forefronts and hides the author's implied body within and behind the written work. Tracing the use of the disembodied posthumous voice in fiction and poetry by Mary Shelley, Emily Brontë, Emily Dickinson, and Sylvia Plath, Raymond's study sounds out the ways that the trope of the posthumous voice succeeds in negotiating the difficult cultural space between the concept of woman's body and the production of canonical literature. Arguing that the nineteenth-century cult of mourning opens to women's writing the possibility of a post-Romantic 'self-elegy,' Raymond explores how the woman writer's appropriation and alteration of elegiac conventions signifies and revises her disrupted relationship to audience. Theorizing the posthumous voice as a gesture by which the woman writer claims, and in some cases gains, canonicity, Raymond contends that the elegy posed as if written by a dead woman for herself both describes and subverts the woman writer's secondary status in the English canon. For the woman writer, the self-elegy permits access to a topos central to canonical literature, with the implementation of the trope of the posthumous voice marking a crucial site of woman's interaction with the English canon.

Author : Al Alvarez
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Suicide
ISBN : 9780747559054

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The Savage God by Al Alvarez Pdf

'To write about suicide . to transform the subject into something beautiful - this is the foreboding task that Alvarez set for himself . he has succeeded.' The New York Times

Author : Tracy Brain
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317881605

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The Other Sylvia Plath by Tracy Brain Pdf

Despite being widely studied on both undergraduate and postgraduate courses the writing of Sylvia Plath has been relatively neglected in relation to the attention given to her life and what drove her to suicide. Tracy Brain aims to remedy this by introducing completely new approaches to Plath's writing, taking the studies away from the familiar concentration to reveal that Plath as a writer was concerned with a much wider range of important cultural and political topics. Unlike most of the existing literary criticism it shifts the focus away from biographical readings and encompasses the full range of Plath's poetry, prose, journals and letters using a variety of critical methods.

Author : M. Wormald,N. Roberts,Terry Gifford
Publisher : Springer
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137276582

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Ted Hughes: From Cambridge to Collected by M. Wormald,N. Roberts,Terry Gifford Pdf

Including a previously unpublished poem by Ted Hughes, as well as new essays from Seamus Heaney and Simon Armitage, Ted Hughes: From Cambridge to Collected offers fresh readings and newly available archival research, challenging established views about Hughes's speaking voice, study at Cambridge and the influence of other poets on Hughes's work.