ROY FULLER'S COPY OF ARIEL
Ariel
Faber, 1965.
First edition. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles in the original printed dustwrapper. Ownership inscription of Roy Fuller to front free endpaper. One sheet of handwritten notes on the poems by Fuller loosely laid in, alongside the Poetry Book Society Bulletin featuring Ariel as the 'Spring Choice'. A fine copy in a very good dustwrapper, some toning and light wear to spine.
One of the most significant collections of post war poetry, written in the last months of the author's life and edited by Plath's husband, Ted Hughes. In the loosely inserted Poetry Book Society Bulletin review, Hughes describes Ariel as "not much like any other poetry. It is her. Everything she did was just like this, and this is just like her - but permanent. (T.H.)".
In a letter to her mother of March 1960 Plath reports meeting Roy Fuller, Elizabeth Jennings and Christine Brooke-Rose at a London Magazine party, noting "I must get them all in my diary". The following year Fuller wrote a positive review of The Colossus for The London Magazine.
PROVENANCE: From the library of English Poet Roy Fuller (1912-1991), with his ownership inscription to front free endpaper.
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