The Collected Poems

by Plath, Sylvia

• ISBN13: 9780060909000
• ISBN10: 0060909005
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1981-11-25
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publications

Summary

Containing everything that celebrated poet Sylvia Plath wrote after 1956, this is one of the most comprehensive collections of her work. Edited, annotated, and with an introduction by Ted Hughes.

Table of Contents

Introduction	13	(21)
Poems 1956---1963
1956
Conversation Among the Ruins	21	(1)
Winter Landscape, with Rooks	21	(1)
Pursuit	22	(1)
Bucolics	23	(1)
Tale of a Tub	24	(2)
Southern Sunrise	26	(1)
Channel Crossing	26	(2)
Prospect	28	(1)
The Queen's Complaint	28	(1)
Ode for Ted	29	(1)
Firesong	30	(1)
Song for a Summer's Day	30	(1)
Two Sisters of Persephone	31	(1)
Vanity Fair	32	(1)
Strumpet Song	33	(1)
Tinker Jack and the Tidy Wives	34	(1)
Faun	35	(1)
Street Song	35	(1)
Letter to a Purist	36	(1)
Soliloquy of the Solipsist	37	(1)
Dialogue Between Ghost and Priest	38	(2)
The Glutton	40	(1)
Monologue at 3 a.m.	40	(1)
Miss Drake Proceeds to Supper	41	(1)
Recantation	41	(1)
The Shrike	42	(1)
Alicante Lullaby	43	(1)
Dream with Clam-Diggers	43	(1)
Wreath for a Bridal	44	(1)
Epitaph for Fire and Flower	45	(1)
Fiesta Melons	46	(1)
The Goring	47	(1)
The Beggars	47	(1)
Spider	48	(1)
Spinster	49	(1)
Rhyme	50	(1)
Departure	51	(1)
Maudlin	51	(1)
Resolve	52	(1)
Landowners	53	(1)
Ella Mason and Her Eleven Cats	53	(1)
Crystal Gazer	54	(2)
November Graveyard	56	(1)
Black Rook in Rainy Weather	56	(2)
1957
The Snowman on the Moor	58	(2)
Mayflower	60	(1)
Sow	60	(2)
The Everlasting Monday	62	(1)
Hardcastle Crags	62	(2)
The Thin People	64	(1)
On the Difficulty of Conjuring Up a Dryad	65	(2)
On the Plethora of Dryads	67	(1)
The Other Two	68	(1)
The Lady and the Earthenware Head	69	(1)
All the Dead Dears	70	(1)
Natural History	71	(1)
Two Views of Withens	71	(1)
The Great Carbuncle	72	(1)
Words for a Nursery	73	(1)
The Disquieting Muses	74	(2)
Night Shift	76	(1)
Ouija	77	(1)
On the Decline of Oracles	78	(1)
Snakecharmer	79	(1)
A Lesson in Vengeance	80	(1)
1958
Virgin in a Tree	81	(1)
Perseus: The Triumph of Wit Over Suffering	82	(2)
Battle-Scene from the Comic Operatic Fantasy The Seafarer	84	(1)
Yadwigha, on a Red Couch, Among Lilies	85	(1)
A Winter's Tale	86	(1)
Above the Oxbow	87	(2)
Memoirs of a Spinach-Picker	89	(1)
The Ghost's Leavetaking	90	(1)
Sculptor	91	(1)
Full Fathom Five	92	(2)
Lorelei	94	(1)
Mussel Hunter at Rock Harbor	95	(3)
Moonrise	98	(1)
Frog Autumn	99	(1)
In Midas' Country	99	(1)
Incommunicado	100	(1)
Child's Park Stones	100	(1)
Owl	101	(1)
Whiteness I Remember	102	(1)
Fable of the Rhododendron Stealers	103	(1)
The Death of Myth-Making	104	(1)
Green Rock, Winthrop Bay	104	(1)
The Companionable Ills	105	(1)
I Want, I Want	106	(1)
Poems, Potatoes	106	(1)
The Times Are Tidy	107	(1)
1959
The Bull of Bendylaw	108	(1)
The Eye-mote	109	(1)
Point Shirley	110	(1)
Goatsucker	111	(1)
Watercolor of Grantchester Meadows	111	(1)
A Winter Ship	112	(1)
Aftermath	113	(1)
Two Views of a Cadaver Room	114	(1)
Suicide off Egg Rock	115	(1)
The Ravaged Face	115	(1)
Metaphors	116	(1)
Electra on Azalea Path	116	(2)
The Beekeeper's Daughter	118	(1)
The Hermit at Outermost House	118	(1)
Man in Black	119	(1)
Old Ladies' Home	120	(1)
The Net-Menders	121	(1)
Magnolia Shoals	121	(1)
The Sleepers	122	(1)
Yaddo: The Grand Manor	123	(1)
Medallion	124	(1)
The Manor Garden	125	(1)
Blue Moles	126	(1)
Dark Wood, Dark Water	127	(1)
Polly's Tree	128	(1)
The Colossus	129	(1)
Private Ground	130	(7)
Poem for a Birthday
Who	131	(1)
Dark House	132	(1)
Maenad	133	(1)
The Beast	134	(1)
Flute Notes from a Reedy Pond	134	(1)
Witch Burning	135	(1)
The Stones	136	(1)
The Burnt-out Spa	137	(2)
Mushrooms	139	(2)
1960
You're	141	(1)
The Hanging Man	141	(1)
Stillborn	142	(1)
On Deck	142	(1)
Sleep in the Mojave Desert	143	(1)
Two Campers in Cloud Country	144	(1)
Leaving Early	145	(2)
Love Letter	147	(1)
Magi	148	(1)
Candles	148	(1)
A Life	149	(2)
Waking in Winter	151	(1)
1961
Parliament Hill Fields	152	(1)
Whitsun	153	(1)
Zoo Keeper's Wife	154	(1)
Face Lift	155	(1)
Morning Song	156	(1)
Barren Woman	157	(1)
Heavy Women	158	(1)
In Plaster	158	(2)
Tulips	160	(2)
I Am Vertical	162	(1)
Insomniac	163	(1)
Widow	164	(1)
Stars Over the Dordogne	165	(1)
The Rival	166	(1)
Wuthering Heights	167	(1)
Blackberrying	168	(1)
Finisterre	169	(1)
The Surgeon at 2 a.m.	170	(2)
Last Words	172	(1)
The Moon and the Yew Tree	172	(1)
Mirror	173	(1)
The Babysitters	174	(2)
1962
New Year on Dartmoor	176	(1)
Three Women: A Poem for Three Voices	176	(11)
Little Fugue	187	(2)
An Appearance	189	(1)
Crossing the Water	190	(1)
Among the Narcissi	190	(1)
Pheasant	191	(1)
Elm	192	(1)
The Rabbit Catcher	193	(1)
Event	194	(1)
Apprehensions	195	(1)
Berck-Plage	196	(5)
The Other	201	(1)
Words heard, by accident, over the phone	202	(1)
Poppies in July	203	(1)
Burning the Letters	204	(1)
For a Fatherless Son	205	(1)
A Birthday Present	206	(2)
The Detective	208	(1)
The Courage of Shutting-Up	209	(2)
The Bee Meeting	211	(1)
The Arrival of the Bee Box	212	(2)
Stings	214	(1)
The Swarm	215	(2)
Wintering	217	(2)
A Secret	219	(2)
The Applicant	221	(1)
Daddy	222	(2)
Medusa	224	(2)
The Jailer	226	(1)
Lesbos	227	(3)
Stopped Dead	230	(1)
Fever 103°	231	(1)
Amnesiac	232	(1)
Lyonnesse	233	(2)
Cut	235	(1)
By Candlelight	236	(1)
The Tour	237	(2)
Ariel	239	(1)
Poppies in October	240	(1)
Nick and the Candlestick	240	(2)
Purdah	242	(2)
Lady Lazarus	244	(3)
The Couriers	247	(1)
Getting There	247	(2)
The Night Dances	249	(2)
Gulliver	251	(1)
Thalidomide	252	(1)
Letter in November	253	(1)
Death & Co.	254	(1)
Years	255	(1)
The Fearful	256	(1)
Mary's Song	257	(1)
Winter Trees	257	(1)
Brasilia	258	(1)
Childless Woman	259	(1)
Eavesdropper	260	(2)
1963
Sheep in Fog	262	(1)
The Munich Mannequins	262	(2)
Totem	264	(1)
Child	265	(1)
Paralytic	266	(1)
Gigolo	267	(1)
Mystic	268	(1)
Kindness	269	(1)
Words	270	(1)
Contusion	271	(1)
Balloons	271	(1)
Edge	272	(77)
Notes on Poems 1956--1963	275	(24)
The `Ariel' Poems	295	(1)
Translation	296	(1)
A Concordance with Published Volumes	296	(3)
Juvenilia
A Selection of Fifty Early Poems
Bitter Strawberries	299	(1)
Family Reunion	300	(1)
Female Author	301	(1)
April 18	301	(1)
Gold mouths cry	302	(1)
Dirge for a Joker	302	(1)
To Eva Descending the Stair	303	(1)
Cinderella	303	(1)
Jilted	304	(1)
Sonnet: To Eva	304	(1)
Bluebeard	305	(1)
Aquatic Nocturne	305	(1)
Notes to a Neophyte	306	(1)
Metamorphoses of the Moon	307	(1)
Dialogue En Route	308	(1)
To a Jilted Lover	309	(1)
The Dream	310	(1)
Sonnet: To Time	311	(1)
The Trial of Man	312	(1)
April Aubade	312	(1)
Go get the goodly squab	313	(1)
Trio of Love Songs	313	(2)
Lament	315	(1)
Doomsday	316	(1)
Moonsong at Morning	316	(2)
Doom of Exiles	318	(1)
The Dispossessed	318	(1)
Admonitions	319	(1)
Never try to trick me with a kiss	319	(1)
The Dead	320	(1)
Danse macabre	320	(1)
Circus in Three Rings	321	(1)
Prologue to Spring	322	(1)
Song for a Revolutionary Love	322	(1)
Sonnet to Satan	323	(1)
A Sorcerer Bids Farewell to Seem	324	(1)
Midsummer Mobile	324	(1)
On Looking into the Eyes of a Demon Lover	325	(1)
Insolent storm strikes at the skull	325	(1)
Denouement	326	(1)
Two Lovers and a Beachcomber by the Real Sea	327	(1)
Black Pine Tree in an Orange Light	328	(1)
Terminal	328	(1)
Love Is a Parallax	329	(2)
Aerialist	331	(1)
Morning in the Hospital Solarium	332	(1)
The Princess and the Goblins	333	(2)
Touch-and-Go	335	(1)
Temper of Time	336	(1)
Epitaph in Three Parts	337	(2)
Uncollected Juvenilia: A complete list of poems composed before 1956	339	(4)
Index of Titles and First Lines
Poems 1956-1963	343	(6)
Fifty Early Poems	349