The Colossus and Other Poems is a poetry collection by American poet Sylvia Plath

Sylvia Plath

Sylvia Plath was an American poet, novelist and short story writer. Born in Massachusetts, she studied at Smith College and Newnham College, Cambridge before receiving acclaim as a professional poet and writer...

, named after the poem The Colossus. It was first published in 1960.

Contents

The 44 poems presented here are in the published order

1. The Manor Garden
2. Two Views of a Cadaver Room
3. Night Shift
4. Sow
5. The Eye-mote
6. Hardcastle Crags
7. Faun
8. Departure
9. The Colossus
10. Lorelei
11. Point Shirley
12. The Bull of Bendylaw
13. All the Dead Dears
14. Aftermath
15. The Thin People
16. Suicide Off Egg Rock
17. Mushrooms
18. I Want, I Want
19. Watercolor of Grantchester Meadows
20. The Ghost's Leavetaking
21. A Winter Ship
22. Full Fathom Five
23. Blue Moles
24. Strumpet Song
25. Man in Black
26. Snakecharmer
27. The Hermit at Outermost House
28. The Disquieting Muses
29. Medallion
30. The Companionable Ills
31. Moonrise
32. Spinster
33. Frog Autumn
34. Mussel Hunter at Rock Harbor
35. The Beekeeper's Daughter
36. The Times Are Tidy
37. The Burnt-out Spa
38. Sculptor
39. Flute Notes from a Reedy Pond
40. The Stones

Critical reception

Prominent literary critic, journalist, poet, and former editor of the poetry journal The Observer, A. Alvarez, called the re-release of the book after the success of Ariel a "major literary event".