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Ariel's Gift

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Ariel's Gift
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Erica Wagner
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:240
Dimensions(mm): Height 197,Width 127
Category/GenreBiographies and autobiography
Poetry
Literary studies - from c 1900 -
Literary studies - poetry and poets
ISBN/Barcode 9780571205264
ClassificationsDewey:821.914
Audience
General
Undergraduate
Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational
Edition Main

Publishing Details

Publisher Faber & Faber
Imprint Faber & Faber
Publication Date 9 April 2001
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Ted Hughes's Birthday Letters, published in 1998, was greeted with astonishment and acclaim. In Ariel's Gift, Erica Wagner provides a commentary to the poems, pointing the reader towards the events that shaped them, and, crucially, showing how they draw upon Plath's own work.

Author Biography

Erica Wagner was born in New York in 1967. She has lived in England since 1986 and is now Literary Editor of The Times, where early versions of parts of Ariel's Gift first appeared. Her fiction has been widely anthologized and broadcast, and her collection of short stories, Gravity, is published by Granta Books.