NMLP P-037322 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-19

The Colossus

Sylvia Plath · William Heinemann · 1960

UK Heinemann issue (1960) is the true first. The US Knopf edition (1962), titled 'The Colossus and Other Poems', omits about ten poems (including five of the seven parts of 'Poem for a Birthday') and is the first American edition, not the true first.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-037322 for "The Colossus" by Sylvia Plath (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-037322, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).