Possessing one of the most commanding voices in twentieth-century poetry, Plath published only one volume of verse and a single novel.
The poems in Sylvia Plath's Ariel, including many of her best-known such as Lady Lazarus, Daddy and Fever 103 degrees, were all written between the publication, in 1960, of Plath's first book, The Colossus, and her death in 1963.