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It has been the cause of much controversy among feminist critics. At the time of Plath's death, she left a nearly completed manuscript entitled ''Ariel and Other Poems''. The version that was published was similar but not identical: some poems were trimmed to reduce what her husband Ted Hughes considered to be redundancy, and additional poems composed in her final weeks were added to the manuscript. Some critics consider this to have been an intrusion upon her intent, while others note that even at that late date Hughes and Plath frequently helped edit each other's work.


CONTENTS (1965 VERSION)


  • were not in Plath's original manuscript, but were added by Hughes. Most of them date from the last few weeks of Plath's life.


# Morning Song
# The Couriers

  • # The Applicant

# Lady Lazarus
# Tulips
# Cut
# Elm
# The Night Dances
# Poppies in October
# Berck-Plage
# Ariel
# Death & Co.
# Lesbos
# Nick and the Candlestick
# Gulliver
# Getting There
# Medusa

  • # A Birthday Present

  • (only in US version)

  • # Letter in November

# The Rival
# Daddy
# You're
# Fever 103°
# The Bee Meeting
# The Arrival of the Bee Box
# Stings
  • (only in US version)

  • # Wintering












ADDITIONAL POEMS IN HER MANUSCRIPT

# The Rabbit Catcher
# Thalidomide
# Barren Woman
# A Secret
# The Jailor
# The Detective
# Magi
# The Other
# Stopped Dead
# The Courage of Shutting-Up
# Purdah
# Amnesiac


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