by Sylvia Plath
‘Daddy’ (12 October 1962) [A]
‘You’re’ (January/February 1960) [A]
‘Fever 103°’ (20 October 1962) [A]
‘The Bee Meeting’ (3 October 1962) [A]
‘The Arrival of the Bee Box’ (4 October 1962) [A]
‘Stings’ (6 October 1962) [A]
‘The Swarm’ (7 October 1962) [A]
‘Wintering’ (8–9 October 1962) [A]
The following poems are listed in the order of the contents of the published volume of Ariel. Those with dates indicate poems that were not originally part of the manuscript Ariel and other poems. These dates refer to the dates of composition as established in The Collected Poems and on the manuscripts at Smith College.
‘Morning Song’
‘The Couriers’
‘Sheep in Fog’ (2 December 1962, 28 January 1963)
‘The Applicant’
‘Lady Lazarus’
‘Tulips’
‘Cut’
‘Elm’
‘The Night Dances’
‘Poppies in October’
‘Berck-Plage’
‘Ariel’
‘Death & Co.’
‘Lesbos’ (not included in original U.K. edition, but included in original U.S. edition)
‘Nick and the Candlestick’
‘Gulliver’
‘Getting There’
‘Medusa’
‘The Moon and the Yew Tree’
‘A Birthday Present’
‘Mary’s Song’ (18–19 November 1962) (not included in original U.K. edition, but included in original U.S. edition)
‘Letter in November’
‘The Rival’
‘Daddy’
‘You’re’
‘Fever 103°’
‘The Bee Meeting’
‘The Arrival of the Bee Box’
‘Stings’
‘The Swarm’ (not included in original U.K. edition, but included in original U.S. edition)
‘Wintering’
‘The Hanging Man’ (27 June 1960)
‘Little Fugue’ (2 April 1962)
‘Years’ (16 November 1962)
‘The Munich Mannequins’ (28 January 1963)
‘Totem’ (28 January 1963)
‘Paralytic’ (29 January 1963)
‘Balloons’ (5 February 1963)
‘Poppies in July’ (20 July 1962)
‘Kindness’ (1 February 1963)
‘Contusion’ (4 February 1963)
‘Edge’ (5 February 1963)
‘Words’ (1 February 1963)
About the Author
Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and studied at Smith College. In 1955 she went to Cambridge University on a Fulbright scholarship, where she met and later married Ted Hughes. She published one collection of poems in her lifetime, The Colossus (1960), and a novel, The Bell Jar (1963). Her Collected Poems, which contains her poetry written from 1956 until her death, was published in 1981 and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry.
Copyright
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Previously unpublished material © the Estate of Sylvia Plath, 2004
Foreword © Frieda Hughes, 2004
Notes and editorial matter © HarperCollins Publishers, 2004
The right of Sylvia Plath to be identified as author of this work has been asserted in accordance with Section 77 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988
The facsimiles found here are reproductions of the originals from the Sylvia Plath Collection, Mortimer Rare Book Room, Smith College.
Grateful acknowledgement to Karen Kukil, Associate Curator, Mortimer Rare Book Room, Smith College.
An extension of this copyright page, and the previous publishing history of the Plath works collected here, appears in the Notes section, beginning on page 195.
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