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The Poetry of Sylvia Plathan occasional bibliography

Editions of the works

Plath, SylviaAriel

Faber and Faber, 1965

811.5 PLA

The bed book, illustrated by Quentin Blake


821 PLA Classroom Resources

The collected poems, edited by Ted Hughes

Harper and Row, n.d.

Crossing the water

Faber and Faber, 1971811.5 PLA

Sylvia Plath: poems


(Poet to poet)

Sylvia Plath reads

HarperAudio, 2000

(Audiocassette)

Sylvia Plath's selected poems, chosen by Ted Hughes


811.5 PLA

The voice of the poet: Sylvia Plath, edited by J.D. McClatchy

Random House, n.d.

(Audiocassette)

Winter trees


Monographs: Biographical

Alexander, PaulRough magic: a biography of Sylvia Plath

Da Capo, 1999

Brain, Tracy

The other Sylvia Plath

Longman, 2001

(Longman studies in twentieth-century literature)

Connell, Elaine

Sylvia Plath: killing the angel in the house

Pennine Pens, 1998

Egeland, MarianneSylvia Plath

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Gyldendal, 1998

Hayman, Ronald

The death and life of Sylvia Plath

Carol, n.d.

Hawthorn, JeremyMultiple personality and the disintegration of literary character: from Oliver Goldsmith to Sylvia Plath

E. Arnold, 1983

823.50927 HAW

Karl, Frederick R. (ed.)

Biography and source studies, vol.2

AMS Press, 1997

Lehrer, Sylvia

The dialectics of art and life: a portrait of Sylvia Plath as women and poet

Edwin Mellen, 1985

(Salzburg studies: Poetic drama and poetic theory, 71)

Plath, Sylvia

The bell jar


813.5 PLA

Plath, Sylvia

The journals of Sylvia Plath 1950-1962, edited by Karen V. Kukil


818.5 PLA

Plath, Sylvia

Letters home: correspondence 1950-1963, selected and with a commentary by Aurelia Schober PlathFaber and Faber, 1975

811.5 PLA

Stevenson, Anne

Bitter fame: a life of Sylvia Plath

Penguin, 1989

811.5 PLA STE

Tytell, John

Passionate lives: D.H. Lawrence, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Henry Miller, Dylan Thomas, Sylvia Plath - in

love

St. Martin's Press, 1995

Wagner-Martin, Linda

Sylvia Plath: a literary life

Macmillan, 1999

(literary lives)

Wisker, Gina

Sylvia Plath

Headway, 2001

Monographs: CriticalAlexander, Paul

Ariel ascending: writings about Sylvia Plath

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Harper and Row, 1985

Annas, Pamela J.

A disturbance in mirrors: the poetry of Sylvia Plath

Greenwood, 1988

(Contributions in women's studies, no.89)

Axelrod, Steven Gould

Sylvia Plath: the wound and the cure of words

Johns Hopkins University, 1990

Bassnett, Susan

Sylvia Plath

Macmillan, 1987

811.5 PLA BAS

Bennett, Paula

My life a loaded gun: Dickinson, Plath, Rich, and female creativity

University of Illinois Press, 1986

811.0099287 BEN

Bloom, Harold

Sylvia Plath

Chelsea House, 2001

(Bloom's major poets)

Blosser, Silvianne

A poetics on edge: the poetry and prose of Sylvia Plath

Peter Lang, 2000

Brenner, Claire

The poetry of Sylvia PlathIcon, 2000

(Readers' guides)

Britzolakis, Christina

Sylvia Plath and the theatre of mourning

Oxford U. P., 1999

(Oxford English monographs)

Broe, Mary Lynn

Protean poetic: the poetry of Sylvia Plath

University of Missouri P., n.d.

Bronfen, ElisabethSylvia Plath

Northcote, 1999

(Writers and their work)

811.5 PLA BRO

Brundtzen, Lynda K.

The other Ariel

University of Massachusetts P., 2001

Butscher, Edward

Sylvia Plath: the woman and the work

Owen, 1979

811.5 PLA BUT

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Curry, Renee R.

White women writing white: H.D., Elizabeth Bishop, Syvia Plath, and whiteness

Greenwood Press, 1999

(Contributions in women's studies, no.175)

Gentry, Deborah S.

The art of dying: suicide in the works of Kate Chopin, Edith Wharton, and Sylvia Plath

Peter Lang, 1994

(American university studies, vol.56)

Hall, Caroline King Barnard

Sylvia Plath

Twayne, 1978

811.5 PLA

Hargrove, Nancy Duvall

The journey toward Ariel: Sylvia Plath's poems of 1956-1959Lund U.P., 1994

(Lund studies in English, 85)

Holbrook, David

Sylvia Plath: poetry and existence

Athlone Press, 1988

811.5 PLA HOL

Jaidka, Manju

Confession and beyond: the poetry of Sylvia Plath

Arun, 1992

Jha, Pashupati

Sylvia Plath: the fear and fury of her muse

Creative Publishers, 1993

Kendall, Tim

Sylvia Plath: a critical study


Levy, Patricia and Buzan, Tony

A guide to the poems of Sylvia Plath

Hodder and Stoughton, 1999

(Teach yourself literature guides)

Markey, Janice

A journey into the red eye: the poetry of Sylvia Plath: a critique

Women's Press, 1995

811.5 PLA MAR

Markey, Janice

A new tradition? The poetry of Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, and Adrienne Rich

Peter Lang, 1988

Marsack, Robyn

Sylvia Plath

Open University Press, 1992

811.5 PLA BRI

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Rajani, P.

The poetry of Sylvia Plath

Orient Longman, 2000

Ramakrishnan, E. V.

Crisis and confession: studies in the poetry of Theodore Roethke, Robert Lowell, and Sylvia Plath

Chanakya, 1988

Rose, Jacqueline

The haunting of Sylvia Plath

Virago, 1991

811.5 PLA ROS

Saldivar, Toni

Sylvia Plath: confessing the fictive self

Peter Lang, 1991

(Writing about women, vol.3)

Selected poems of Sylvia Plath

Longman, 2001(York notes advanced)

Simpson, Louis

Studies of Dylan Thomas, Allen Ginsberg, Sylvia Plath, and Robert Lowell

Macmillan, 1979

811.509 SIM

Tabor, Stephen

Sylvia Plath: an analytical bibliography

Greenwood Press, 1987

Van Dyne, Susan R.Revising life: Sylvia Plath's Ariel poems

University of North Carolina Press, n.d.

Wagner, Linda W. (ed.)

Sylvia Plath: the critical heritage

Routledge, 1988

811.5 PLA WAG

Wood, David John

A critical study of the birth imagery of Sylvia Plath, American poet 1932-1963

Mellen, 1992

Monographs: BackgroundBerman, Jeffrey

Surviving literary suicide

University of Massachusetts, 1999

Bertram, Vicki

Kicking daffodils: twentieth-century women poets

Edinburgh U.P., 1997

Brown, Dennis

The poetry of post modernity: Anglo/American encodings

St. Martin's Press, 1994

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Davison, Peter and Ford, harry

The fading smile: poets in Boston, 1955-1960 from Robert Frost to Robert Lowell to Sylvia Plath

Knopf, n.d.

DiYanni, Robert

Modern American poets: their voices and visionsMcGraw-Hill, 2nd ed. 1994

Donnell, Alison

Representing lives: women and auto/biography

Macmillan, 2000

Gagne, Laurie Brands

The uses of darkness: women's underworld journeys, ancient and modern

University of Notre Dame, 2000

Gilbert, Sandra M. and Gubar, Susan

Letters from the front

Uale U.P., 1994(No man's land: the place of the women writer in the twentieth century, vol.3)

Gluck, Louise

Proofs and theories: essays on poetry

Carcanet, 1999

(Lives and letters)

Gurr, Elizabeth

19th and 20th century women poets

Oxford U.P., 1997

(Oxford student texts)

Hamilton, Ian

Keepers of the flame: the making and unmaking of literary reputations from John Donne to Sylvia

Plath

Paragon House, 1993

Hamilton, Ian

The Oxford companion to 20th-century poetry

Oxford U.P., 1996

821.9109 HAM

Kerridge, Richard

Writing the environment: ecocriticism and literature

Zed, 1998809.93355 KER

Payne, Karen

Between ourselves: letters between mothers and daughters 1750-1982

Virago, 1994

Ramazani, Jahan

Poetry of mourning: the modern elegy from Hardy to Heaney

University of Chicago Press, 1994

Roberts, Neil

Narrative and voice in postwar poetry

Longman, 1999821.91 ROB

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Sinfield, Alan

Literature, politics, and culture in postwar Britain

Athlone Press, new ed. 1997

820.9358 SIN

Thwaite, Anthony

Poetry today: a critical guide to British poetry, 1960-1995

Longman, 2nd ed. 1996

821.9109 THW

Wagner, Erica

Ariel's gift: a commentary on Birthday Letters by Ted Hughes


821.91 HUG WAG

Journal articles: BiographicalBanerjee, Jacqueline

Grief and the modern writer

IN English, vol.43, no.175,Spring 1994, pp.17-36

805 ENG Reference Well

Bonds, Diane S.

The separative self in Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar

IN Women's Studies, vol.18, 1990, pp49-64

Cooper, Pamela

'A body story with a vengeance': anatomy and struggle in the Bell Jar and The Handmaid's Tale

IN Women's Studies, vol.26, no.1, 1997, pp89-123

Firestone, L. and Catlett, J.

The treatment of Sylvia Plath

IN Death Studies, vol.22, no.7, 1998, pp667-692

Foster, A.V.M. and Edmonds, M. E.

The roots of Ariel: Sylvia Plath and her father's foot

IN Diabetic Medicine, vol.12, no.7, 1995, p580

Gerish, B.

'This is not death, it is something safer': a psychodynamic approach to Sylvia Plath


Horn, K.

'The girl who wanted to be God': the addictions of Sylvia Plath

IN Journal of Evolutionary Psychology, vol.21, no.3/4, 2000, pp131-141

Lester, D.

Theories of suicidal behavior applied to Sylvia Plath


Runco, M.A.

Suicide and creativity: the case of Sylvia Plath


Shulman, E.

Vulnerability factors in Sylvia Plath's suicide

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Van Pelt, T.

Symptomatic perfectionism: ideal ego and ego ideal in the journals of Sylvia Plath

IN Literature and Psychology, vol.43, no.1/2, 1997, pp47-64

Journal articles: CriticalBrain, T.

'Your puddle-jumping daughter': Sylvia Plath's midatlanticism

IN English, vol.47, no.187, Spring 1998, pp17-39


Easthope, Antony

Reading the poetry of Sylvia Plath.

IN English, vol.43, no.177,Autumn 1994, pp.223-35


Fraser, L.L.

Technologies of reproduction: the maternity ward in Sylvia Plath's Three women and Ingmar

Bergman's Brink of life


Frost, L.

'Every woman adores a fascist: feminist visions of fascism from 'Three Guineas' to 'Fear of Flying'


Gubar, S.

Prosopopoeia and holocaust poetry in English: Sylvia Plath and her contemporaries

IN Yale Journal of Criticism, vol.14, no.1, 2001, pp191-216

Haberkamp, F.

Sylvia Plath: the poetics of bee-keeping

IN Salzburg Studies in English Literature, Poetic Drama and Poetic theory, vol.192, 1997, ppALL

Kendall, T.

From the bottom of the pool: Sylvia Plath's last poems

IN English, vol.49, no.193, Spring 2000, pp23-38


Kendall, T.

Sylvia Plath's 'piranha religion'

IN Essays in Criticism, vol.49, no.1, January 1999, pp44-61805 ESS Reference Well

Lant, K.M.

The big strip tease: female bodies and male power in the poetry of Sylvia Plath

IN Contemporary Literature, vol.34, no.4, 1993, p620

Leenaars, A.A. and Wenkstern, S.

Sylvia Plath: a protocol analysis of her last poems


Lody, A.

Under the surgeon's knife: identity and incision in Sylvia Plath's poetry

IN English Review, vol.10, no.3, February 2000, pp17-19

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Marcus, P.L.

'I used to pray to recover you': W.B. Yeats and the development of Sylvia Plath

IN Colby Quarterly, vol.34, no.4, 1998, pp315-327

Mihaila, R.

Technologies of self in the poetry of Sylvia Plath

IN European Contributions to American Studies, vol.44, 2000, pp326-332

Padel, R.

She was much more than a wronged woman: she was a verbal acrobat

IN Independent, 20th January 1998, p.17

Richards, Sandra

Is there humour in Sylvia Plath?

IN English Review, vol.4, no.4, April 1994, pp.28-31

Roman, C.

Cold war 1950: Elizabeth Bishop and Sylvia PlathIN WPI Studies, vol.18, 1999, pp247-258

Smith, Nigel

Sylvia Plath's 'daddy'

IN English Review, vol.1, September 1990, pp16-17

Strangeways, A.

'The boot in the face': the problem of the holocaust in the poetry of Sylvia Plath

IN Contemporary Literature, vol.37, no.3, 1996, pp370-390

Sugars, C.

Sylvia Plath as fantasy space; or, The return of the living dead

IN Literature and Psychology, vol.45, no.3, 1999, pp1-28

Thomas, M.

Close reading

IN English Review, vol.10, no.2, November 1999, pp34-37

Tovey, J.

Viciousness in the kitchen: domesticity in Sylvia Plath's poems

IN English Review, vol.11, no.4, April 2001, pp20-21

Tripp, Anna

Sylvia Plath's 'Words'

IN English Review, vol.5, no.3, February 1995, pp.20-2

Tripp, Anna

Saying 'I': Sylvia Plath as tragic author or feminist text?

Women: A Cultural Review, vol.5, no.3, Winter 1994, pp.253-63

Underhill, E.

Images, structure and symbolism in Sylvia Plath's poetry

IN English Review, vol.8, no.3, February 1998, pp36-38

Whittington-Egan, R.

The life after death of Sylvia Plath

IN Contemporary Review, vol.272, no.1588, May 1998, pp238-243

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Journal articles: BackgroundEllis, David

Biography and gossip

IN Cambridge Quarterly, vol.24, no.4, 1995, pp304-314

805 CAM Reference Well

Kaufman, J.C.

The Sylvia Plath effect: mental illness in eminent creative writers

IN Journal of Creative Behavior, vol.35, no.1, 2001, pp37-50

Compiled by Gillian Leach, August 2001

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