| Description |
351, (32) pages : facsimiles, portraits ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Harper Perennial modern classics.
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| Note |
Includes index. |
| Summary |
A complete collection of Sylvia Plath's poetry. |
| Contents |
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 |
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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 |
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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. |
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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. |
| Audience |
NP Lexile. |
| Subject |
American poetry -- Women authors.
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| Genre |
American poetry.
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| Added Author |
Hughes, Ted, 1930-1998.
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| ISBN |
9780061558894 paperback |
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0061558893 paperback |
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9781417825530 (bound) |
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1417825537 (bound) |
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