The PDF’s hidden gem. Hughes provides textual notes, variant lines, and context for unpublished drafts. He also includes Plath’s own rejected order for Ariel , plus five poems written in February 1963 (“Edge,” “Balloons”).
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offers a psychoanalytic critique of selected poems, examining the "reverberation of Holocaust" imagery and her portrayal of death. Stylistic Analysis