- Summary
- A complete collection of Sylvia Plath's poetry.
- Uniform Title
- Poems.
- Series
- Harper Perennial Modern Classics .
Harper Perennial modern classics.
- Format
- Book
- Author/Creator
- Plath, Sylvia.
- Published
- New York : HarperPerennial Modern Classics, 2008
- Edition
- First Harper Perennial Modern Classics edition
- Contents
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Poems 1956-1963
Conversation among the ruins
Winter landscape, with rooks
Pursuit
Bucolics
Tale of a tub
Southern sunrise
Channel crossing
Prospect
The Queen's complaint
Ode for Ted
Firesong
Song for a summer's day
Two sisters of Persephone
Vanity Fair
Strumpet song
Tinker Jack and the tidy wives
Faun
Street song
Letter to a purist
Soliloquy of the solipsist
Dialogue between ghost and priest
The GLutton
Monolgue at 3 a.m.
Miss Drake proceeds to supper
Recantation
The Shrike
Alicante lullaby
Dream with clam-diggers
Wreath for a bridal
Epitaph for fire and flower
Fiesta melons
The Goring
The Beggars
Spider
Spinster
Rhyme
Departure
Maudlin
Resolve
Landowners
Ella Mason and her eleven cats
Crystal gazer
November graveyard
Black rook in rainy weather
1959
The Bull of Benylaw
The Eye-mote
Point Shirley
Goatsucker
Watercolor of Grantchester Meadows
A Winter ship
Aftermath
Two views of a cadaver room
Suicide off Egg Rock
The Ravaged face
Metaphors
Electra on Azalea path
The Beekeeper's daughter
The Hermit at Outermost House
Man in black
Old ladies' home
The Net-menders
Magnolia shoals
The Sleepers
Yaddo: the grand manor
Medallion
The Manor garden
Blue moles
Dark wood, dark water
Polly's tree
The Colossus
Private ground
Poem for a birthday
Who
Dark house
Maenad
The Beast
Flute notes from a reedy pond
Witch burning
The Stones
The Burnt-out spa
Mushrooms
1960
You're
The Hanging man
Stillborn
On deck
Sleep in the Mojave Desert
Two campers in Cloud country
Leaving early
Love letter
Magi
Candles
A Life
Waking in winter
1961
Parliament Hill fields
Whitsun
Zoo keeper's wife
Face lift
Morning song
Barren woman
Heavy women
In plaster
Tulips
I am vertical
Insomniac
Widow
Stars over the Dordogne
The Rival
Wuthering Heights
Blackberrying
Finisterre
The Surgeon at 2 a.m.
Last words
The Moon and the yew tree
Mirror
The Babysitters
1962
New year on Dartmoor
Three women: a poem for three voices
Little fugue
An Appearance
Crossing the water
Among the Narcissi
Pheasant
Elm
The Rabbit catcher
Event
Apprehensions
Berck-plage
The Other
Words heard, by accident, over the phone
Poppies in July
Burning the letters
For a fatherless son
A Birthday present
The Detective
The Courage of shutting-up
The Bee meeting
The Arrival of the bee box
Stings
The Swarm
Wintering
A Secret
The Applicant
Daddy
Medusa
The Jailer
Lesbos
Stopped dead
Fever 103°
Amnesiac
Lyonnesse
Cut
By candlelight
The Tour
Ariel
Poppies in October
Nick and the candlestick
Purdah
Lady Lazarus
The Couriers
Getting there
The Night dances
Gulliver
Thalidomide
Letter in November
Death & Co.
Years
The fearful
Mary's song
Winter trees
Brasilia
Childless woman
Eavesdropper
Sheep in fog
The Munich mannequins
Totem
Child
Paralytic
Gigolo
Mystic
Kindness
Words
Contusion
Balloons
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 neocturne
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
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.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Hughes, Ted, 1930-1998.
- Notes
-
Includes index.
Poems 1956-1963 -- Conversation among the ruins -- Winter landscape, with rooks -- Pursuit -- Bucolics -- Tale of a tub -- Southern sunrise -- Channel crossing -- Prospect -- The Queen's complaint -- Ode for Ted -- Firesong -- Song for a summer's day -- Two sisters of Persephone -- Vanity Fair -- Strumpet song -- Tinker Jack and the tidy wives -- Faun -- Street song -- Letter to a purist -- Soliloquy of the solipsist -- Dialogue between ghost and priest -- The GLutton -- Monolgue at 3 a.m. -- Miss Drake proceeds to supper -- Recantation -- The Shrike -- Alicante lullaby -- Dream with clam-diggers -- Wreath for a bridal -- Epitaph for fire and flower -- Fiesta melons -- The Goring -- The Beggars -- Spider -- Spinster -- Rhyme -- Departure -- Maudlin -- Resolve -- Landowners -- Ella Mason and her eleven cats -- Crystal gazer -- November graveyard -- Black rook in rainy weather
1959 -- The Bull of Benylaw -- The Eye-mote -- Point Shirley -- Goatsucker -- Watercolor of Grantchester Meadows -- A Winter ship -- Aftermath -- Two views of a cadaver room -- Suicide off Egg Rock -- The Ravaged face -- Metaphors -- Electra on Azalea path -- The Beekeeper's daughter -- The Hermit at Outermost House -- Man in black -- Old ladies' home -- The Net-menders -- Magnolia shoals -- The Sleepers -- Yaddo: the grand manor -- Medallion -- The Manor garden -- Blue moles -- Dark wood, dark water -- Polly's tree -- The Colossus -- Private ground -- Poem for a birthday -- Who -- Dark house -- Maenad -- The Beast -- Flute notes from a reedy pond -- Witch burning -- The Stones -- The Burnt-out spa -- Mushrooms -- 1960 -- You're -- The Hanging man -- Stillborn -- On deck -- Sleep in the Mojave Desert -- Two campers in Cloud country -- Leaving early -- Love letter -- Magi -- Candles -- A Life -- Waking in winter -- 1961 -- Parliament Hill fields -- Whitsun -- Zoo keeper's wife -- Face lift -- Morning song -- Barren woman -- Heavy women -- In plaster -- Tulips -- I am vertical -- Insomniac -- Widow -- Stars over the Dordogne -- The Rival -- Wuthering Heights -- Blackberrying -- Finisterre -- The Surgeon at 2 a.m. -- Last words -- The Moon and the yew tree -- Mirror -- The Babysitters
1962 -- New year on Dartmoor -- Three women: a poem for three voices -- Little fugue -- An Appearance -- Crossing the water -- Among the Narcissi -- Pheasant -- Elm -- The Rabbit catcher -- Event -- Apprehensions -- Berck-plage -- The Other -- Words heard, by accident, over the phone -- Poppies in July -- Burning the letters -- For a fatherless son -- A Birthday present -- The Detective -- The Courage of shutting-up -- The Bee meeting -- The Arrival of the bee box -- Stings -- The Swarm -- Wintering -- A Secret -- The Applicant -- Daddy -- Medusa -- The Jailer -- Lesbos -- Stopped dead -- Fever 103° -- Amnesiac -- Lyonnesse -- Cut -- By candlelight -- The Tour -- Ariel -- Poppies in October -- Nick and the candlestick -- Purdah -- Lady Lazarus -- The Couriers -- Getting there -- The Night dances -- Gulliver -- Thalidomide -- Letter in November -- Death & Co. -- Years -- The fearful -- Mary's song -- Winter trees -- Brasilia -- Childless woman -- Eavesdropper -- Sheep in fog -- The Munich mannequins -- Totem -- Child -- Paralytic -- Gigolo -- Mystic -- Kindness -- Words -- Contusion -- Balloons -- 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 neocturne -- 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 -- 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.