Ariel (poetry collection)

Poems marked with an * were not in Plath's original manuscript, but were added by Ted Hughes. Most of them date from the last few weeks of Plath's life. ==Contents (Manuscript version / Restored 2004 version)==

Poems marked with an ** were included in Plath's original manuscript, but were removed by Ted Hughes. ==Title==

The collection had different working titles, such as The Rival, A Birthday Present, and Daddy. Plath finally settled upon Ariel, her choice inspired partly by a character's name in Shakespeare's The Tempest as well as the name of her horse that she used to ride in England. ==Reception==

American poetry scholar Marjorie Perloff said in her article "The Two Ariels: The (Re)making of the Sylvia Plath Canon" that "The fact remains that Plath herself had arranged the future Ariel poems 'in a careful sequence,' plotting out every detail including the first and last words of the volume." Another critic remarked that "her poetry would have been valuable no matter what she had written about". ==Awards==

• 1982Pulitzer Prize for Poetry ==References==