The collected poems / Sylvia Plath ; edited by Ted Hughes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Plath, Sylvia.

Contributor:

Hughes, Ted, 1930-1998.

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--Women authors--20th century.

American poetry.

American poetry--Women authors.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)

Physical Description:

351 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

First HarperPerennial edition published 1992.

Place of Publication:

New York : HarperPerennial, 1992.

Summary:

This collection contains 224 poems, including a selection of her very earliest work. Also use: Crossing the River (1971), a volume that contains the poet's last works. 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. Annotation. 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.

Contents:

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 Suffering

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

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

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 Voices

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

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[degree]

189. Amnesiac

190. Lyonnesse

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

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

Metarmorphoses 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

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

Touch-and-Go

Temper of Time

Epitaph in Three Parts

Uncollected Juvenilia: A complete list of poems composed before 1956

Poems 1956-1963

Fifty Early Poems.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

0060909005

9780060909000

9780060133696

0060133694

OCLC:

27166388