According to her husband, Plath began writing the novel in 1961, after publishing her first collection of poetry, The Colossus.
poems | Three Hundred Tang Poems | Poems from Prison | Wall poems in Leiden | The Lucy poems | Shadow of the Colossus | Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral | Elephantine Colossus | Dub Colossus | Dark of the Moon: Poems of Fantasy and the Macabre | Colossus: The Forbin Project | Three Stories and Ten Poems | The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems | The Colossus of New York | The Colossus and Other Poems | Songfest: A Cycle of American Poems for Six Singers and Orchestra | Saxophone Colossus | Salt-Water Poems and Ballads | Relatively Speaking: Poems about Family | Poetic Closure: A Study of How Poems End | POEMS Syndrome | POEMS syndrome | Poems on the Underground | Maples in the Mist: Children's Poems from the Tang Dynasty | James 'The Colossus' Thompson | Colossus of Rhodes | Colossus (comics) | Colossus and the Amazon Queen | Colossus |
Jenkinson as caricatured by Ape (Carlo Pellegrini