William Basse
Basse's most famous poem is his "enormously popular sixteen-line elegy on Shakespeare":
Ariel (The Tempest)
Sylvia Plath's most famous book of poetry is called "Ariel". It is named so because she considered the poem to be the best in the book. Many readers know that the title of the poem was changed to "The Horse" for the less discerning newspaper readers and think the poem Ariel is simply about her riding a wild horse. Others, however, such as , consider Plath's earlier childhood fascination with "The Tempest's" character Ariel and view the poem as talking about creativity and the dangerous direction her creativity was taking her.