Ariel Restored

February 25, 1956: Sylvia Plath met Ted Hughes in a London pub while studying at Cambridge on a Fulbright scholarship. Plath's and Hughes' relationship went on to become one of the most famous and tumultuous in literature.

After Sylvia Plath's 1963 suicide, Ted Hughes published her collection of poems entitled Ariel, after substantially and controversially editing the collection. Ariel is now available in its original form, as left by Sylvia Plath before her death and with a forward by her daughter, Frieda Hughes, explaining the reasons for the disparity of the two publications: Ariel: The Restored Edition

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