{"product_id":"plath-sylvia-ariel","title":"Plath, Sylvia - Ariel","description":"Ariel remains essential, inspirational reading for every\naspiring poet\n'I rise with my red hair \/ And I eat men like air.'\nIt is sixty years since Ariel was first published. The poems were written in an\nextraordinary burst of creativity just before Sylvia Plath’s death in 1963, and\nthey went on to establish her reputation as one of the most original and gifted\npoets of the twentieth century.\nThe critic Al Alvarez, reviewing the collection in the Observer, wrote: ‘If the\npoems are despairing, vengeful and destructive, they are at the same time tender,\nopen to things, and also unusually clever, sardonic, hardminded . . . They\nare works of great artistic purity and, despite all the nihilism, great generosity\n. . . the book is a major literary event.’\nThe poet Emily Berry offers an introduction that gives readers, old and new,\na way into the poems, and demonstrates Plath’s profound and enduring influence\ndown the generations.","brand":"Faber \u0026 Faber","offers":[{"title":"Hardback Book","offer_id":50224112763158,"sku":"RMX-49499","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0839\/7750\/2998\/files\/dd16e37bec60ac265a5a7dd1b141ca50.jpg?v=1752062910","url":"https:\/\/resident-music-uk.myshopify.com\/products\/plath-sylvia-ariel","provider":"Resident Music UK","version":"1.0","type":"link"}