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... of mood, even if they didn't "tell a story" as a lot of the other selections did.
My favorite poet is Sylvia Plath, and Ariel one of my all-time favorite books, but as I've gotten older, my tastes have...not changed, but maybe EXPANDED somewhat. Plath was clinically depressed and ultimately ... ... one or two right now, but so far in 2008 I've read:
1 How Proust Can Change Your Life — Alain de Botton
2 Ariel — Sylvia Plath
3 Sexing the Cherry — Jeanette Winterson
4 Summer — Edith Wharton
5 The Lonely Life — Bette Davis
6 Tallulah!— Joel Lobenthal (HeathMochaFrost in Site talk : Favorite Poems (Apr 10, 2008, 8:27am) "Lady Lazarus" by Sylvia Plath, from the book Ariel. I discovered it when I was about 14, beginning a life-long interest in Plath and her work. ... Dover
by Daljit Nagra
A Book of Mediterranean Food
by Elizabeth David
The Prince
by Machiavelli
Ariel
by Sylvia Plath
10 January 2008
(bookdepository.co.uk)
An Alphabet for Gourmets
The Gastronomical Me
Consider the Oyster
Serve it forth
all ... ... the last ten years the most prominent was Birthday Letters by Ted Hughes, who had been married to Sylvia Plath (Ariel). Not a best selller, but 632 in LT own it (1,886 in Worldcat), so far from obscure. ... sure whether I would consider it a great work of literature, but it was/is? certainly an influential work.
I also read Ariel when I was in college and was very impressed -- I was in a "tragic people with problems are interesting" phase. I have no idea what I would think of it now, but ... ... Angela Davis
Anywhere but Here, by Mona Simpson
Archetypal Patterns in Women's Fiction, by Annis Pratt
Ariel, by Sylvia Plath
"An Autobiography," by Janet Frame
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, by Gertrude Stein
The Awakening, by Kate Chopin I'll step in as a tentative Plath defender. Ariel is, in my opinion, a pretty powerful collection. It has this fire to it that gets to me. I don't find them the most accessible poems, but they can get under your skin.
I'm also fond of the Bell Jar as a piece of fiction, and read that ...
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