Winter Trees

First edition (publ. Faber & Faber)

Winter Trees is a 1971 posthumous collection of poetry by Sylvia Plath, published by her husband Ted Hughes. ^{[1] [2]} Along with Crossing the Water it provides the remainder of the poems that Plath had written prior to her death in 1963. ^[3]

Contents

1. Winter Trees
2. Child
3. Brasilia
4. Gigolo
5. Childless Woman
6. Purdah
7. The Courage of Shutting-Up
8. The Other
9. Stopped Dead
10. The Rabbit Catcher
11. Mystic
12. By Candlelight
13. Lyonnesse
14. Thalidomide
15. For A Fatherless Son
16. Lesbos
17. The Swarm
18. Mary's Song
19. Three Women

References

1. Janet Badia (2011). Sylvia Plath and the Mythology of Women Readers. Univ of Massachusetts Press. pp. 189–190. ISBN   978-1-55849-896-9.
2. Connie Ann Kirk (1 January 2004). Sylvia Plath: A Biography. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. xx–xxi. ISBN   978-0-313-33214-2.
3. Jo Gill (11 September 2008). The Cambridge Introduction to Sylvia Plath. Cambridge University Press. p. 12. ISBN   978-1-139-47413-9.

Further reading

• Sylvia Plath (25 November 2010). Winter Trees. Faber & Faber. ISBN   978-0-571-26416-2.