Ariel by Sylvia Plath #joyce the Glaswegian postie turned singer

the Glaswegian postie turned singer of sea shanties

some things are the same everywhere

this common garden bird can often be overlooked

and who took on Freud as a patient during his London exile – refused to yield to the seductions of the new Freudianism

and sorrows and joys passed from generation to generation

Ariel by Sylvia Plath #joyce the Glaswegian postie turned singer'The world is blood hot and personal': in her moving and illuminating introduction, the poet Emily Berry remembers her own teenage encounters with Ariel and offers a personal way into this definitive collection. She shows us how Plath can crystallize our most volatile emotions, transforming them into images so potent and precise that they resonate with us all. Plath has been an inspiration to successive generations; her influence, enduring and