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ARIEL, by Sylvia Plath. Suicide ended the promising career of Poet Sylvia Plath in 1963. In these poems written during her last months, she dipped her pen in old wounds and secret bile and scribbled a volume of violent verse that constitutes a major contribution to the poetry of abreaction...
ARIEL by Sylvia Plath. 85 pages. Harper...
...dank day in February 1963, a pretty young mother of two children was found in a London flat with her head in the oven and the gas jets wide open. The dead woman was Sylvia Plath, 30, an American poet whose marriage to Ted Hughes, a British poet, had gone on the rocks not long before. Her published verses, appearing occasionally in American magazines and gathered in a single volume, The Colossus, had displayed accents of refinement, but had not yet achieved authority of tone...
Published last year in Britain, the last poems of Sylvia Plath sold 15,000 copies in ten months, almost as many as a bestselling novel, and inspired a vigorous new group of confessional poets. Published last week in the U.S., Ariel adds a powerful voice to the rising chorus of American bards (Robert Lowell, Ann Sexton, Frederick Seidel) who practice poetry as abreaction...
Also, William W. Parmley, Physics; Warren J. Plath, Linguistics and Applied Mathematics; George S. Reynolds, Social Relations; Ralph T. Rockafellar, Mathematics; Eric Rothstein, English; Charles P. Segal, Classics; Kenneth I. Shine, Biochemical Sciences; Charles P. Sifton, History and Literature; Peter N. Stearns, History; Robert J. Swartz, Philosophy; Rufus F. Walker, Jr., Physics; Julian P. Webb, Physics; David S. Wiesen, Classics; and David C. Williams, Chemistry...