Sylvia Plath

  • Sylvia Plath: An Introduction to the Poetry
    By Susan Bassnett

    Now thoroughly revised and expanded in the light of recent research, the second edition of this essential text contains new chapters and more close reading of the poetry.

  • Sylvia Plath: The Poetry of Initiation
    By Jon Rosenblatt

    Plath imagines that the Colossus, which once dominated the harbor at Rhodes, is her father's dead body, now lying broken in pieces on a hillside. The father's “ancient” power and size have been destroyed through time.

  • Sylvia Plath: An Introduction to the Poetry
    By Susan Bassnett

    Lois Ames, 'Notes Toward a Biography' in Charles Newman (ed.), The Art of Sylvia Plath: A Symposium (London, Faber & Faber, 1970), pp. 155–174. 4. Ibid., p. 162. 5. Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar (London, Faber & Faber, 1966), p. 250.

  • Sylvia Plath: Poetry and Existence
    By David Holbrook

    The latter, analysed recently in Phillip Rieff's Fellow Teachers, with its Roman antecedents, is a form of egoistical nihilism that could mean the end of civilization itself. To abjure discrimination is no service to the artist herself, ...

  • Sylvia Plath: An Introduction to the Poetry
    By Susan Bassnett

    In her book Chapters in a Mythology: The Poetry of Sylvia Plath, Judith Kroll talks about the moon as a central symbol in Plath's poetry. She points out that there are more than a hundred direct references to the moon in the poems and ...

  • Sylvia Plath: An Introduction to the Poetry
    By Susan Bassnett

    Now thoroughly revised and expanded in the light of recent research, the second edition of this essential text contains new chapters and more close reading of the poetry.

  • Sylvia Plath
    By Susan Bassnett

    Sylvia Plath

  • Sylvia Plath: A Biography
    By Linda Wagner-Martin

    By examining the works and life of Sylvia Plath, Linda Wagner-Martin achieves to make the story of her growth into a consummate artist both dramatic and convincing.

  • Sylvia Plath: A Literary Life, Second Edition
    By Linda Wagner-Martin

    In this updated edition there will be discussion of the aftermath of Plath's death including the publication of her Collected Poems edited by Ted Hughes which won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1982.

  • Sylvia Plath
    By Linda Wagner-Martin

    Sylvia Plath

  • Sylvia Plath: eine Biographie
    By Linda Wagner-Martin

    Sylvia Plath: eine Biographie

  • Sylvia Plath
    By Linda Wagner-Martin

    Sylvia Plath

  • Sylvia Plath: Poems
    By Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath

    In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past.

  • Sylvia Plath: Poems
    By Hughes, Ted, Sylvia Plath

    Part of a set of six beautiful, collectable hardcover gift editions.

  • Sylvia Plath: A Literary Life
    By Linda Wagner-Martin

    Her close analysis of Plath's reading and her apprenticeship writing both in fiction and poetry sheds considerable light into Plath's work in the late 1960s. The book concludes with a section assessing Sylvia Plath's current standing.

  • Sylvia Plath
    By Elisabeth Bronfen

    Challenged by the editor of the magazine Jay Cee to explain in what way she feels she is more accomplished than all the other girls who 'flood into New York every June thinking they'll be editors' (BJ 35), she begins to fear that she is ...

  • Sylvia Plath: The Poetry of Negativity
    By Paul Mitchell

    (1976 118-119) In consequence, Kroll concludes that Plath's entire poetic oeuvre constitutes a 'unified body of work' and that 'the early poems logically and consistently progress toward the final formulation of the myth and its ...

  • Sylvia Plath: A Critical Study
    By Tim Kendall

    Taking a roughly chronological structure, he traces the unique nature of Plath's poetic gift, finding - with reference to Letters Home, The Bell Jar, The Journals and the stories and autobiographical reminiscences - an essential unity in ...

  • Sylvia Plath: Drawings
    By Sylvia Plath, Frieda Hughes

    Throughout her life, Sylvia Plath cited art as her deepest source of inspiration. This collection sheds light on these key years in her life, capturing her exquisite observations of the world around her.

  • Sylvia Plath: A Biography
    By Connie Ann Kirk

    Using unabridged journals and the Ted Hughes archives, presents the life and accomplishments of the famous poet and novelist who wrote "The Bell Jar."