Ariel's Gift
(Paperback, Main)
Publishing Details
Ariel's Gift
By (Author) Erica Wagner
Faber & Faber
Faber & Faber
1st July 2005
Main
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Literary studies: poetry and poets
Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000
Poetry
821.914
Physical Properties
Paperback
240
Width 127mm, Height 197mm, Spine 15mm
200g
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 Bio
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.
