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Born in October 27, 1932 / Died in February 11, 1963 / United States / English

Furtherreading

Other info : Career | Bibliography

BOOKS

  • Aird, E. M., Sylvia Plath, Harper (New York, NY), 1973.
  • Alexander, Paul, Rough Magic: A Biography of Sylvia Plath, Viking (New York, NY), 1991.
  • Alvarez, A., The Savage God: A Study of Suicide, Weidenfeld & Nicolson (London, England), 1971, Random House (New York, NY), 1972.
  • Anderson, Linda, Women and Autobiography in the Twentieth Century, Prentice Hall (Englewood Cliffs, NJ), 1996.
  • Axelrod, Steven Gould, Sylvia Plath: The Wound and the Cure of Words, Johns Hopkins University Press (Baltimore, MD), 1990.
  • Broe, Mary Lynn, Protean Poetic: The Poetry of Sylvia Plath, University of Missouri Press (Columbia, MO), 1980.
  • Chapman, Lynne F., Sylvia Plath (biography), Creative Education (Mankato, MN), 1994.
  • Concise Dictionary of American Literary Biography: The New Consciousness, 1941-1968, Gale (Detroit, MI), 1987.
  • Contemporary Literary Criticism, Gale (Detroit, MI), Volume 1, 1973; Volume 2, 1974; Volume 3, 1975; Volume 5, 1976; Volume 9, 1978; Volume 11, 1979; Volume 14, 1980; Volume 17, 1981; Volume 50, 1988; Volume 51, 1989.
  • Dictionary of Literary Biography, Gale (Detroit, MI), Volume 5: American Poets since World War II, First Series, 1980; Volume 6, American Novelists since World War II, Second Series, 1980; American Novelists since World War II, Fourth Series, 1995.
  • Hargrove, Nancy Duvall, The Journey toward Ariel: Sylvia Plath's Poems of 1956-1959, Lund University Press, 1994.
  • Haberkamp, Frederike, Sylvia Plath: The Poetics of Beekeeping, International Specialised Book Services, 1997.
  • Hall, Caroline King Barnard, Sylvia Plath, Revised, Twayne (Boston, MA), 1998.
  • Hayman, Ronald, The Death and Life of Sylvia Plath, Birch Lane Press (New York, NY), 1991.
  • Hughes, Ted, Birthday Letters, Farrar, Straus (New York, NY), 1998.
  • Kroll, Judith, Chapters in a Mythology: The Poetry of Sylvia Plath, Harper (New York, NY), 1976.
  • Land, Gary, and Maria Stevens, Sylvia Plath: A Biography, Scarecrow (Metuchen, NJ), 1978.
  • Malcolm, Janet, The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath Ted Hughes, Knopf (New York, NY), 1994.
  • Newman, Charles, editor, The Art of Sylvia Plath: A Symposium, Indiana University Press (Bloomington, IN), 1970.
  • Perloff, Marjorie, Poetic License: Essays on Modernist and Postmodernist Lyric, Northwestern University Press (Evanston, IL), 1990.
  • Plath, Sylvia, The Journals of Sylvia Plath, edited by Ted Hughes and Frances McCullough, Ballantine (New York, NY), 1983.
  • Plath, Sylvia, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath, 1950-1962, edited by Karen V. Kukil, Anchor Books (New York, NY), 2000.
  • Rose, Jacqueline,The Haunting of Sylvia Plath, Virago (London, England), 1991.
  • Steiner, N. H., A Closer Look at Ariel: A Memory of Sylvia Plath, Harper's Magazine Press, 1973.
  • Stevenson, Anne, Bitter Fame: The Undiscovered Life of Sylvia Plath, Houghton Mifflin (Boston, MA), 1989.
  • Strangeways, Al,Sylvia Plath: The Shaping of Shadows, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press (East Brunswick, NJ), 1998.
  • Tabor, Stephen,Sylvia Plath: An Analytical Bibliography, Mansell (London, England), 1987.
  • Tennant, Emma, Sylvia and Ted, Holt (New York, NY), 2001.
  • Van Dyke, Susan R., Revising Life: Sylvia Plath's Ariel Poems, University of North Carolina Press (Chapel Hill, NC), 1993.
  • Wagner-Martin, Linda, The Bell Jar: A Novel of the Fifties, Twayne (Boston, MA), 1992.
  • Wagner-Martin, Linda, Sylvia Plath: A Biography, Simon & Schuster (New York, NY), 1987.
  • Wagner-Martin, Linda, Sylvia Plath: The Critical Heritage, Routledge & Kegan Paul (London, England), 1988.
  • Writers on Themselves, British Broadcasting Corporation (London, England), 1964.
PERIODICALS
  • Atlantic, August, 1966.
  • Booklist, October 1, 2000, Donna Seaman, review of The Unabridged Diaries of Sylvia Plath, 1950-1962, p. 313.
  • Critical Quarterly, Volume 7, number 1, 1965.
  • Critical Survey, September, 2000, James Booth, "Competing Pulses: Secular and Sacred in Hughes, Larkin, and Plath," p. 3.
  • Chronicle of Higher Education, June 22, 2001, Carlin Romano, "Martin and Hannah and Sylvia and Ted," p. B21.
  • Contemporary Literature, spring, 2001, Sarah Churchwell, "Secrets and Lies," p. 102.
  • Economist, October 7, 2000, review of The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath, 1950-1962, p. 151.
  • Guardian (Manchester, England), August 18, 2001, Christina Patterson, "Ted on Sylvia, for the Record," p. R3.
  • Los Angeles Times, March 25, 2000, Marjorie Miller, "Sylvia Plath's Uncensored Journals, to Be Published in April, Shed Light on Her Dark Moods and Tumultuous Marriage," p. A2.
  • Ms., September, 1972.
  • National Post, April 1, 2000, Diana Fitzgerald Bryden, "Lady Lazarus," p. 19; November 18, 2000, "Sylvia Plath's Career Tips for Gales," p. W2.
  • New Republic, June 18, 1966; June 6, 1994, p. 34.
  • Newsweek, June 20, 1966; April 17, 2000, David Gates, "Back to the Ted and Sylvia Show: How Can We Miss Them When They Won't Go Away?," p. 68.
  • New Yorker, August 23, 1993, p. 84.
  • New York Times, October 9, 1979; November 9, 2000, Martin Arnold, "Sylvia Plath, Forever an Icon," p. E3.
  • New York Times Book Review, November 22, 1981, Denis Donoghue, "You Could Say She Had a Calling for Death," p. 1; August 27, 1989, Robert Pinsky, review of Bitter Fame: A Life of Sylvia Plath, p. 11; November 5, 2000, Joyce Carol Oates, "Raising Lady Lazarus," p. 10.
  • Observer, June 1, 1986; February 18, 1996; March 19, 2000, Kate Kellaway, "The Poet Who Died So Well," p. 21.
  • Partisan Review, winter, 1967.
  • Poetry, March, 1963, January, 1967.
  • Publishers Weekly, May 20, 1996, p. 258.
  • Reporter, October 7, 1965.
  • Time, June 10, 1966.
  • Times Literary Supplement, May 5, 2000, Tim Kendall, review of The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath, 1950-1962,p. 12.
  • Tri-Quarterly, fall, 1966.
  • Women's Review of Books, December, 2000, Catharine R. Stimpson, "Soul in Torment," p. 20.
OTHER
  • World Socialist Web site, http://www.wsws.org/ (May, 1998), Margaret Rees, "Memories of Sylvia Plath."