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In Plath’s manuscript of Ariel and Other Poems, she overcame a failed marriage and reinvented herself as a fearless White Goddess, a Godiva riding her lioness of God at breakneck speed. Like Lady ...
In Nick and the Candlestick, published in her collection, Ariel, Plath writes, "You are the one/ Solid the spaces lean on, envious./ You are the baby in the barn." These are haunting lines that ...
He edited not just “Ariel,” the posthumously published collection that (as Plath had predicted) made her name, but “The Collected Poems,” which won a Pulitzer Prize. According to Clark’s ...
The Mortimer Rare Book Room is the repository for a large collection of Plath material--drafts of the Ariel poems, some journals, letters, artwork, photographs and realia, including Plath's typewriter ...