"Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., in 1962"--Title page verso

Manor garden -- Two views of a cadaver room -- Night shift -- Sow -- Eye-mote -- Hardcastle crags -- Faun -- Departure -- Colossus -- Lorelei -- Point Shirley -- Bull of Bendylaw -- All the dead dears -- Aftermath -- Thin people -- Suicide off egg rock -- Mushrooms -- I want, I want -- Watercolor of Grantchester Meadows -- Ghost's leavetaking -- Winter ship -- Full fathom five -- Blue moles -- Strumpet song -- Man in black -- Snakecharmer -- Hermit at outermost house -- Disquieting muses -- Medallion -- Companionable ills -- Moonrise -- Spinster -- Frog autumn -- Mussel hunter at Rock Harbor -- Beekeeper's daughter -- Times are tidy -- Burnt-out spa -- Sculptor -- Flute notes from a reedy pond -- Stones

From the Publisher: With this startling, exhilarating book of poems, which was first published in 1960, Sylvia Plath burst into literature with spectacular force. In such classics as "The Beekeeper's Daughter," "The Disquieting Muses," "I Want, I Want," and "Full Fathom Five," she writes about sows and skeletons, fathers and suicides, about the noisy imperatives of life and the chilly hunger for death. Graceful in their craftsmanship, wonderfully original in their imagery, and presenting layer after layer of meaning, the forty poems in The Colossus are early artifacts of genius that still possess the power to move, delight, and shock