Collected Poems
Published on 12. March 2015
352 pages
978-0-571-26417-9 (ISBN)
Description
This comprehensive volume contains all Sylvia Plath's mature poetry written from 1956 up to her death in 1963. The poems are drawn from the only collection Plath published while alive, The Colossus, as well as from posthumous collections Ariel, Crossing the Water and Winter Trees.
The text is preceded by an introduction by Ted Hughes and followed by notes and comments on individual poems. There is also an appendix containing fifty poems from Sylvia Plath's juvenilia.
This collection was awarded the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for poetry.
'For me, the most important literary event of 1981 has been the publication, eighteen years after her death, of Sylvia Plath's Collected Poems, confirming her as one of the most powerful and lavishly gifted poets of our time.' A. Alvarez in the Observer
The text is preceded by an introduction by Ted Hughes and followed by notes and comments on individual poems. There is also an appendix containing fifty poems from Sylvia Plath's juvenilia.
This collection was awarded the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for poetry.
'For me, the most important literary event of 1981 has been the publication, eighteen years after her death, of Sylvia Plath's Collected Poems, confirming her as one of the most powerful and lavishly gifted poets of our time.' A. Alvarez in the Observer
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Main
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English
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London
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
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1,08 MB
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978-0-571-26417-9 (9780571264179)
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Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and studied at Smith College. In 1955 she went to Cambridge University on a Fulbright scholarship, where she met and later married Ted Hughes. She published one collection of poems in her lifetime, The Colossus (1960), and a novel, The Bell Jar (1963). Her Collected Poems, which contains her poetry written from 1956 until her death, was published in 1981 and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry.
Content
- Intro
- Cover
- Landing Page
- Title Page
- Contents
- Introduction
- Poems 1956-1963
- 1956
- 1 Conversation Among the Ruins
- 2 Winter Landscape, with Rooks
- 3 Pursuit
- 4 Bucolics
- 5 Tale of a Tub
- 6 Southern Sunrise
- 7 Channel Crossing
- 8 Prospect
- 9 The Queen's Complaint
- 10 Ode for Ted
- 11 Firesong
- 12 Song for a Summer's Day
- 13 Two Sisters of Persephone
- 14 Vanity Fair
- 15 Strumpet Song
- 16 Tinker Jack and the Tidy Wives
- 17 Faun
- 18 Street Song
- 19 Letter to a Purist
- 20 Soliloquy of the Solipsist
- 21 Dialogue Between Ghost and Priest
- 22 The Glutton
- 23 Monologue at 3 a.m.
- 24 Miss Drake Proceeds to Supper
- 25 Recantation
- 26 The Shrike
- 27 Alicante Lullaby
- 28 Dream with Clam-Diggers
- 29 Wreath for a Bridal
- 30 Epitaph for Fire and Flower
- 31 Fiesta Melons
- 32 The Goring
- 33 The Beggars
- 34 Spider
- 35 Spinster
- 36 Rhyme
- 37 Departure
- 38 Maudlin
- 39 Resolve
- 40 Landowners
- 41 Ella Mason and Her Eleven Cats
- 42 Crystal Gazer
- 43 November Graveyard
- 44 Black Rook in Rainy Weather
- 1957
- 45 The Snowman on the Moor
- 46 Mayflower
- 47 Sow
- 48 The Everlasting Monday
- 49 Hardcastle Crags
- 50 The Thin People
- 51 On the Difficulty of Conjuring Up a Dryad
- 52 On the Plethora of Dryads
- 53 The Other Two
- 54 The Lady and the Earthenware Head
- 55 All the Dead Dears
- 56 Natural History
- 57 Two Views of Withens
- 58 The Great Carbuncle
- 59 Words for a Nursery
- 60 The Disquieting Muses
- 61 Night Shift
- 62 Ouija
- 63 On the Decline of Oracles
- 64 Snakecharmer
- 65 A Lesson in Vengeance
- 1958
- 66 Virgin in a Tree
- 67 Perseus: The Triumph of Wit Over Sufferin
- 68 Battle-Scene from the Comic Operatic Fantasy The Seafarer
- 69 Yadwigha, on a Red Couch, Among Lilies
- 70 A Winter's Tale
- 71 Above the Oxbow
- 72 Memoirs of a Spinach-Picker
- 73 The Ghost's Leavetaking
- 74 Sculptor
- 75 Full Fathom Five
- 76 Lorelei
- 77 Mussel Hunter at Rock Harbor
- 78 Moonrise
- 79 Frog Autumn
- 80 In Midas' Country
- 81 Incommunicado
- 82 Child's Park Stones
- 83 Owl
- 84 Whiteness I Remember
- 85 Fable of the Rhododendron Stealers
- 86 The Death of Myth-Making
- 87 Green Rock, Winthrop Bay
- 88 The Companionable Ills
- 89 I Want, I Want
- 90 Poems, Potatoes
- 91 The Times Are Tidy
- 1959
- 92 The Bull of Bendylaw
- 93 The Eye-mote
- 94 Point Shirley
- 95 Goatsucker
- 96 Watercolor of Grantchester Meadows
- 97 A Winter Ship
- 98 Aftermath
- 99 Two Views of a Cadaver Room
- (1)
- (2)
- 100 Suicide off Egg Rock
- 101 The Ravaged Face
- 102 Metaphors
- 103 Electra on Azalea Path
- 104 The Beekeeper's Daughter
- 105 The Hermit at Outermost House
- 106 Man in Black
- 107 Old Ladies' Home
- 108 The Net-Menders
- 109 Magnolia Shoals
- 110 The Sleepers
- 111 Yaddo: The Grand Manor
- 112 Medallion
- 113 The Manor Garden
- 114 Blue Moles
- (1)
- (2)
- 115 Dark Wood, Dark Water
- 116 Polly's Tree
- 117 The Colossus
- 118 Private Ground
- 119 Poem for a Birthday
- 1. Who
- 2. Dark House
- 3. Maenad
- 4. The Beast
- 5. Flute Notes from a Reedy Pond
- 6. Witch Burning
- 7. The Stones
- 120 The Burnt-out Spa
- 121 Mushrooms
- 1960
- 122 You're
- 123 The Hanging Man
- 124 Stillborn
- 125 On Deck
- 126 Sleep in the Mojave Desert
- 127 Two Campers in Cloud Country
- 128 Leaving Early
- 129 Love Letter
- 130 Magi
- 131 Candles
- 132 A Life
- 133 Waking in Winter
- 1961
- 134 Parliament Hill Fields
- 135 Whitsun
- 136 Zoo Keeper's Wife
- 137 Face Lift
- 138 Morning Song
- 139 Barren Woman
- 140 Heavy Women
- 141 In Plaster
- 142 Tulips
- 143 I Am Vertical
- 144 Insomniac
- 145 Widow
- 146 Stars Over the Dordogne
- 147 The Rival
- 148 Wuthering Heights
- 149 Blackberrying
- 150 Finisterre
- 151 The Surgeon at 2 a.m.
- 152 Last Words
- 153 The Moon and the Yew Tree
- 154 Mirror
- 155 The Babysitters
- 1962
- 156 New Year on Dartmoor
- 157 Three Women: A Poem for Three Voice
- 158 Little Fugue
- 159 An Appearance
- 160 Crossing the Water
- 161 Among the Narcissi
- 162 Pheasant
- 163 Elm
- 164 The Rabbit Catcher
- 165 Event
- 166 Apprehensions
- 167 Berck-Plage
- (1)
- (2)
- (3)
- (4)
- (5)
- (6)
- (7)
- 168 The Other
- 169 Words heard, by accident, over the phone
- 170 Poppies in July
- 171 Burning the Letters
- 172 For a Fatherless Son
- 173 A Birthday Present
- 174 The Detective
- 175 The Courage of Shutting-Up
- 176 The Bee Meeting
- 177 The Arrival of the Bee Box
- 178 Stings
- 179 The Swarm
- 180 Wintering
- 181 A Secret
- 182 The Applicant
- 183 Daddy
- 184 Medusa
- 185 The Jailer
- 186 Lesbos
- 187 Stopped Dead
- 188 Fever 103°
- 189 Lyonnesse
- 190 Amnesiac
- 191 Cut
- 192 By Candlelight
- 193 The Tour
- 194 Ariel
- 195 Poppies in October
- 196 Nick and the Candlestick
- 197 Purdah
- 198 Lady Lazarus
- 199 The Couriers
- 200 Getting There
- 201 The Night Dances
- 202 Gulliver
- 203 Thalidomide
- 204 Letter in November
- 205 Death & Co.
- 206 Years
- 207 The Fearful
- 208 Mary's Song
- 209 Winter Trees
- 210 Brasilia
- 211 Childless Woman
- 212 Eavesdropper
- 1963
- 213 Sheep in Fog
- 214 The Munich Mannequins
- 215 Totem
- 216 Child
- 217 Paralytic
- 218 Gigolo
- 219 Mystic
- 220 Kindness
- 221 Words
- 222 Contusion
- 223 Balloons
- 224 Edge
- Notes on Poems 1956-1963
- 1956
- 1957
- 1958
- 1959
- 1960
- 1961
- 1962
- 1963
- The 'Ariel' Poems
- Translation
- A Concordance with Published Volumes
- Juvenilia
- A Selection of Fifty Early Poems
- Bitter Strawberries
- Family Reunion
- Female Author
- April 18
- Gold mouths cry
- Dirge for a Joker
- To Eva Descending the Stair
- Cinderella
- Jilted
- Sonnet: To Eva
- Bluebeard
- Aquatic Nocturne
- Notes to a Neophyte
- Metamorphoses of the Moon
- Dialogue En Route
- To a Jilted Lover
- The Dream
- Sonnet: To Time
- The Trial of Man
- April Aubade
- Go get the goodly squab
- Trio of Love Songs
- (1)
- (2)
- (3)
- Lament
- Doomsday
- Moonsong at Morning
- Doom of Exiles
- The Dispossessed
- Admonitions
- Never try to trick me with a kiss
- The Dead
- Danse macabre
- Circus in Three Rings
- Prologue to Spring
- Song for a Revolutionary Love
- Sonnet to Satan
- A Sorcerer Bids Farewell to Seem
- Midsummer Mobile
- On Looking into the Eyes of a Demon Lover
- Insolent storm strikes at the skull
- Denouement
- Two Lovers and a Beachcomber by the Real Sea
- Black Pine Tree in an Orange Light
- Terminal
- Love Is a Parallax
- Aerialist
- Morning in the Hospital Solarium
- The Princess and the Goblins
- (1)
- (2)
- (3)
- Touch-and-Go
- Temper of Time
- Epitaph in Three Parts
- (1)
- (2)
- (3)
- Uncollected Juvenilia: A complete list of poems composed before 1956
- Index of Titles and First Lines
- Poems 1956-1963
- Fifty Early Poems
- About the Author
- About the Editor
- By the Same Author
- Copyright
