Sylvia Plath

Sylvia Plath Criticism

• Plath, Sylvia (Vol. 11)
  • Introduction
  • Dying Is an Art
  • On Sylvia Plath
  • On Sylvia Plath
  • Facing the Worst: A View from Minerva's Buckler
  • Death and Marriage
  • Sylvia Plath's Prose
  • Poet's Prose
• Plath, Sylvia (Vol. 5)
• Plath, Sylvia (Vol. 2)
• Plath, Sylvia (Vol. 111)
  • Introduction
  • Principal Works
  • Criticism
    • 'God's Lioness'—Sylvia Plath, Her Prose and Poetry
    • Sylvia Plath's 'Cut'
    • 'Viciousness in the Kitchen': Sylvia Plath's Domestic Poetry
    • Sylvia Plath and Confessional Poetry: A Reconsideration
    • Plath's 'Ariel': 'Auspicious Gales'
    • 'Poem for a Birthday' to 'Three Women': Development in the Poetry of Sylvia Plath
    • The Self in the World: The Social Context of Sylvia Plath's Late Poems
    • Plath's The Bell Jar as Female Bildungsroman
    • Sylvia Plath's Psychic Landscapes
    • The Monster in Plath's 'Mirror'
    • On Sylvia Plath
    • 'The Boot in the Face': The Problem of the Holocaust in the Poetry of Sylvia Plath
  • Further Reading
• Plath, Sylvia (Vol. 1)
• Plath, Sylvia (Vol. 3)
• Sylvia Plath and the Nature of Biography
  • Introduction
  • Representative Works Discussed Below
  • The Nature Of Biography
    • Biography in Disguise: Sylvia Plath's Journals
    • Provisional Posterities: Sylvia Plath and Philip Larkin
    • The Biographer and the Murderer
    • Whose Life Is It Anyway?: Why One Prefers a Biographer of One's Own
    • Oppressed by Narrative
    • The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes
  • Reviews Of The Silent Woman
    • Plath and the Perils of Biography
    • The Importance of Being Biased
    • Taking Sides in Polemics Over Plath
    • Plath, Hughes and Malcolm: A Metaphysical Ménage à Trois
    • The Flash of the Knife
  • Further Reading
• Plath, Sylvia (Vol. 14)
  • Introduction
  • Sylvia Plath: 'Love, Love, My Season'
  • Out of the Quarrel: On Sylvia Plath
  • Sylvia Plath, Romantic …
• Plath, Sylvia (Vol. 17)
  • Introduction
  • Poetic Knowledge: 'The Colossus and Other Poems'
  • Farewell to the World
  • More Brass than Enduring
  • Robert Taubman
  • Francis Hope
  • Inhabited by a Cry: The Last Poetry of Sylvia Plath
  • An All-American Muse
  • Robert Lowell
  • That Rare, Random Descent: The Poetry and Pathos of Sylvia Plath
  • Sylvia Plath's Last Poems
  • 'Fact' As Style: The Americanization of Sylvia
  • Sylvia Plath and the New Decadence
  • Sylvia Plath: A New Feminist Approach
  • 'Double, Double': Perception in the Poetry of Sylvia Plath
  • 'The Bell Jar': An American Girlhood
  • 'The Bell Jar'
  • Life & Letters: 'The Bell Jar'
  • Collecting Her Strength
  • The Sylvia Plath Cult
  • Helen Vendler
  • The Temptation of Giant Despair
  • Sylvia Plath's Women
  • Sylvia Plath
  • Attitudes Counterfeiting Life: The Irony of Artifice in Sylvia Plath's 'The Bell Jar'
  • The Poet as Cult Goddess
  • Judith Kroll
  • 'A Fine, White Flying Myth': Confessions of a Plath Addict
  • Caroline King Barnard
  • William Dowie
  • Sylvia Plath: The Drama of Initiation
  • Sincerity Kills
  • Sylvia Plath's 'Sivvy' Poems: A Portrait of the Poet as Daughter
  • The Beekeeper's Apprentice
• Plath, Sylvia (Poetry Criticism)
  • Introduction
  • Principal Works
  • Criticism
    • The Colossus: ‘In Sign Language of a Lost Other World.’
    • Sylvia Plath and the Poetry of Confession
    • Death and Rebirth in Sylvia Plath's ‘Berck-Plage.’
    • Occultism as Source and Symptom in Sylvia Plath's ‘Dialogue Over a Ouija Board.’
    • ‘Daddy, I Have had to Kill You:’ Plath, Rage, and the Modern Elegy
    • Reading the Poetry of Sylvia Plath
    • ‘This Holocaust I Walk In:’ Consuming Violence in Sylvia Plath's Poetry
    • Dramatizations of ‘Visionary Events’ in Sylvia Plath's Poetry
    • The Doxies of Daughterhood: Plath, Cixous, and The Father
    • ‘Bad’ Language Can Be Good: Slang and Other Expressions of Extreme Informality in Sylvia Plath's Poetry
    • Poetic Arson and Sylvia Plath's ‘Burning the Letters.’
    • Perfection and Reproduction: Mutually Exclusive Expectations for Women in Sylvia Plath's ‘Edge.’
  • Further Reading