The Colossus, and other poems

The Colossus and Other Poems is a poetry collection by American poet Sylvia Plath, first published, by William Heinemann, 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 journalist, poet and literary critic for The Observer newspaper, Al Alvarez, called the posthumous re-release of the book, after the success of Ariel, a "major literary event" and wrote of Plath's work:
 * She steers clear of feminine charm, deliciousness, gentility, supersensitivity and the act of being a poetess. She simply writes good poetry. And she does so with a seriousness that demands only that she be judged equally seriously... There is an admirable no-nonsense air about this; the language is bare but vivid and precise, with a concentration that implies a good deal of disturbance with proportionately little fuss.

Seamus Heaney said of The Colossus: "On every page, a poet is serving notice that she has earned her credentials and knows her trade."