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Bibliography of works about Sylvia Plath.

Ackerman, Diane, and Enid Mark. 1996. About Sylvia. Wallingford, Pa: ELM Press.

Agarwal, Suman. 2003. Sylvia Plath. New Delhi: Northern Book Centre.

Aird, Eileen M. 1973. Sylvia Plath. New York: Barnes & Noble Books.

Alexander, Paul. 1985. Ariel ascending writings about Sylvia Plath. New York: Harper & Row.

Alexander, Paul. 1991. Rough magic a biography of Sylvia Plath. New York, N.Y., U.S.A.: Viking.

Alvarez, A. 1972. The savage god; a study of suicide. New York: Random House.

Annas, Pamela J. 1988. A disturbance in mirrors the poetry of Sylvia Plath. Contributions in women's studies, no.
      89. New York: Greenwood Press.

Anderson, Robert. 2005. Little fugue. New York: Ballantine Books.

Axelrod, Steven Gould. 1990. Sylvia Plath the wound and the cure of words. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.

Bassnett, Susan. 2005. Sylvia Plath an introduction to the poetry. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

Becker, Jillian. 2002. Giving up the last days of Sylvia Plath. London: Ferrington.

Becker, Jillian. 2003. Giving up the last days of Sylvia Plath. New York: St. Martin's Press.

Biography: Sylvia Plath. 2005. New York: A & E Television Networks.

Birkle, Carmen. 1996. Women's stories of the looking glass autobiographical reflections and self-representations
      in the poetry of Sylvia Plath, Adrienne Rich, and Audre Lorde
. American studies, v. 72. Mu¨nchen: W. Fink.

Bloom, Harold. 1989. Sylvia Plath. Modern critical views. New York: Chelsea House Publishers.

Bloom, Harold. 2001. Sylvia Plath. Broomhall, Pa: Chelsea House.

Bloom, Harold. 2007. Sylvia Plath. Bloom's modern critical views. New York: Bloom's Literary Criticism.

Blosser, Silvianne. 2001. A poetics on edge the poetry and prose of Sylvia Plath : a study of Sylvia Plath's poetic
      and poetological developments
. Bern: Peter Lang.

Brain, Tracy. 2001. The other Sylvia Plath. Longman studies in twentieth-century literature. Harlow, England: Longman.

Brennan, Claire. 1999. The poetry of Sylvia Plath. Duxford: Icon.

Brennan, Claire. 2001. The poetry of Sylvia Plath. Columbia critical guides. New York: Columbia University Press.

Britzolakis, Christina. 1999. Sylvia Plath and the theatre of mourning. Oxford English monographs. Oxford [England]: Clarendon Press.

Broe, Mary Lynn. 1980. Protean poetic the poetry of Sylvia Plath. Columbia: University of Missouri Press.

Bronfen, Elisabeth. 1998. Sylvia Plath. Plymouth, U.K.: Northcote House, in association with the British Council.

Bronfen, Elisabeth. 2004. Sylvia Plath. Tavistock: Northcote House.

Brownlow, John. 2003. Sylvia the shooting script. A Newmarket shooting script series book. New York: Newmarket Press.

Bundtzen, Lynda K. 1983. Plath's incarnations woman and the creative process. Women and culture series. Ann Arbor: University
      of Michigan Press.

Bundtzen, Lynda K. 2001. The other Ariel. Amherst, Mass: University of Massachusetts Press.

Bundtzen, Lynda K. 2005. The other Ariel. Stroud: Sutton.

Butler, C. S. 1981. Poetry and the computer some quantitative aspects of the style of Sylvia Plath. London: The British Academy.

Butscher, Edward. 1976. Sylvia Plath, method and madness. New York: Seabury Press.

Butscher, Edward. 1977. Sylvia Plath the woman and the work. New York: Dodd, Mead.

Butscher, Edward. 2003. Sylvia Plath method and madness. Tucson, Ariz: Schaffner Press.

Chapman, Lynne F., and Sylvia Plath. 1994. Sylvia Plath. Mankato, Minn: Creative Education.

Christodoulides, Nephie. 2005. Out of the cradle endlessly rocking motherhood in Sylvia Plath's work. Costerus, new ser., v. 152.
      Amsterdam: Rodopi.

Conarroe, Joel. 1994. Eight American poets Theodore Roethke, Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell, John Berryman,
      Anne Sexton, Sylvia Plath, Allen Ginsberg, James Merrill : an anthology
. New York: Random House.

Connell, Elaine. 1993. Sylvia Plath killing the angel in the house. Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire: Pennine Pens.

Connors, Kathleen, and Sally Bayley. 2007. Eye rhymes Sylvia Plath's art of the visual. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Curry, Rene´e R. 2000. White women writing white H.D., Elizabeth Bishop, Sylvia Plath, and whiteness.
      Contributions in women's studies, no. 175. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press.

Davison, Peter. 1994. The fading smile poets in Boston, 1955-1960 from Robert Frost to Robert Lowell to Sylvia Plath. New York:
      Knopf.

Decker, Sharon D. 1978. "I have a self to recover" Sylvia Plath's Ariel. Michigan occasional papers in women's
      studies, no. 7. Ann Arbor, Mich: Women's Studies Program, University of Michigan.

Dickie, Margaret. 1979. Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.

Draskau, Jennifer. 1991. The liberation of Sylvia Plath's Ariel psychosemantics and a glass sarcophagus.
      Publications on English themes, v. 15. [Copenhagen]: Dept. of English, University of Copenhagen.

Enniss, Stephen, and Karen V. Kukil. 2005. "No other appetite" Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes, and the blood jet of
      poetry
. New York: Grolier Club.

Forbes, Deborah, and Sylvia Plath. 2002. The bell jar Sylvia Plath. Sparknotes. New York: Spark Pub.

Gekoski, R. A. 2004. Nabokov's butterfly & other stories of great authors and rare books. New York: Carroll & Graf.

Gekoski, R. A. 2004. Tolkien's gown and other stories of great authors and rare books. London: Constable.

Gentry, Deborah S. 1998. The art of dying suicide in the works of Kate Chopin and Sylvia Plath. American
      university studies, vol. 56. New York: P. Lang.

Gill, Jo. 2006. The Cambridge companion to Sylvia Plath. Cambridge companions to literature. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University
      Press.

Gill, Jo. 2008. The Cambridge introduction to Sylvia Plath. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Haberkamp, Frederike. 1997. Sylvia Plath the poetics of beekeeping. Salzburg studies in English literature, 192. Salzburg: Salzburg University.

Hall, Caroline King Barnard. 1978. Sylvia Plath. Boston: Twayne Publishers.

Hall, Caroline King Barnard. 1998. Sylvia Plath, revised. Twayne's United States authors series, TUSAS 702. New York: Twayne
      Publishers.

Hamilton, Ian. 1994. Keepers of the flame literary estates and the rise of biography from Shakespeare to Plath. Boston: Faber and Faber.

Hargrove, Nancy Duvall. 1994. The journey toward Ariel Sylvia Plath's poems of 1956-1959. Lund studies in
      English, 85. Lund, Sweden: Lund University Press.

Harrison, DeSales. 2005. The end of the mind the edge of the intelligible in Hardy, Stevens, Larkin, Plath, and
      Glück
. Literary criticism and cultural theory. New York: Routledge.

Hassett, Marilyn, Julie Harris, Anne Jackson, Barbara Barrie, Robert Klein, Donna Mitchell, Larry Peerce, Andrew
      Bonime, Anthony LaMarca, and Sylvia Plath. 2005. The bell jar. United States: [s.n.].

Hassett, Marilyn, Julie Harris, Anne Jackson, Barbara Barrie, Robert Klein, Donna Mitchell, Marjorie Kellogg, et al.
      2002. The bell jar. [S.l]: New Star Video.

Hawthorn, Jeremy. 1983. Multiple personality and the disintegration of literary character from Oliver Goldsmith
      to Sylvia Plath
. New York: St. Martin's Press.

Hayman, Ronald. 1991. The death and life of Sylvia Plath. Secaucus, NJ: Carol Pub. Group.

Hedberg, Johannes. 1970. Poets of our time English poetry from Yeats to Sylvia Plath. Engelskt kursbibliotek.
      Stockholm: Almquist & Wiksell.

Heje, Johan, and Sylvia Plath. 1980. Key to Sylvia Plath, The bell jar. [Copenhagen]: Munksgaard.

Helle, Anita Plath. 2007. The unraveling archive essays on Sylvia Plath. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

Hemphill, Stephanie. 2007. Your own, Sylvia a verse portrait of Sylvia Plath. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.

Holbrook, David. 1976. Sylvia Plath poetry and existence. London: Athlone Press.

Homberger, Eric. 1970. A chronological checklist of the periodical publications of Sylvia Plath. American arts
      pamphlet, no. 1. Exeter: University of Exeter (American Arts Documentation Centre).

Hughes, Frieda. 2006. Forty-five poems. New York: HarperCollins.

Hughes, Ted, and William Scammell. 1995. Winter pollen occasional prose. New York: Picador USA.

Hughes, Ted. 1998. Birthday letters. London: Faber and Faber.

Hughes, Ted. 1998. Birthday letters. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux.

Inness, Jeanne. 1984. The bell jar notes, including life and background, chronology of Plath, introduction to the
      novel, list of characters, critical commentaries, character analyses, critical essays, essay questions, select
      bibliography, additional readings
. Lincoln, Neb: Cliff's Notes.

Jaidka, Manju. 1992. Confession and beyond the poetry of Sylvia Plath. Chandigarh, India: Arun Pub. House.

Jha, Pashupati. 1991. Sylvia Plath, the fear and fury of her muse. New Delhi: Creative Publishers.

Joseph, Annamma. 1996. Feminism and the modern American poetry with focus on Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton and Adrienne Rich.
      New Delhi: Prestige.

Kendall, Tim. 2001. Sylvia Plath a critical study. London: Faber and Faber.

Kirk, Connie Ann. 2004. Sylvia Plath a biography. Greenwood biographies. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press.

Kirsch, Adam. 2005. The wounded surgeon confession and transformation in six American poets : Robert Lowell,
      Elizabeth Bishop, John Berryman, Randall Jarrell, Delmore Schwartz, and Sylvia Plath
. New York: W.W.
      Norton & Co.

Koren, Yehuda, and Eilat Negev. 2006. A lover of unreason the life and tragic death of Assia Wevill. London: Robson Books.

Koren, Yehuda, and Eilat Negev. 2007. Lover of unreason Assia Wevill, Sylvia Plath's rival and Ted Hughes's doomed love. New York:
     Carroll & Graf Publishers.

Kroll, Judith. 1976. Chapters in a mythology the poetry of Sylvia Plath. New York: Harper & Row.

Kroll, Judith. 2007. Chapters in a mythology the poetry of Sylvia Plath. Stroud: Sutton.

Kumar, Virendra. 1988. Sylvia Plath, the poetry of self. New Delhi: Radha Publications.

Kyle, Barry, and Sylvia Plath. 1976. Sylvia Plath, a dramatic portrait. London: Faber.

Kyle, Barry, and Sylvia Plath. 1977. Sylvia Plath, a dramatic portrait. New York: Harper & Row.

Lane, Gary. 1979. Sylvia Plath new views on the poetry. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.

Lane, Gary, and Maria Stevens. 1978. Sylvia Plath a bibliography. The Scarecrow author bibliographies, no. 36.
      Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press.

Lehrer, Sylvia. 1985. The dialectics of art and life a portrait of Sylvia Plath as woman and poet. Salzburg studies
      in English literature, 71. Salzburg, Austria: Institut fu¨r Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Universta¨t Salzburg.

Levy, Patricia, and Tony Buzan. 1999. A guide to poems of Sylvia Plath. Teach yourself literature guides. London: Hodder & Stoughton.

Lim, Sandra. 1997. Double-consciousness and the protean self in Sylvia Plath's Ariel. Stanford honors essay in
      humanities, no. 41. Stanford, Calif: Humanities Honors Program, Stanford University.

Lindahl-Raittila, Iris. 2002. From victim of the 'feminine mystique' to heroine of feminist deconstruction
      auto/biographical images of Sylvia Plath 1963-2001
. A°bo: A°bo Akademis Fo¨rlag.

Lindberg-Seyersted, Brita. 2002. Sylvia Plath studies in her poetry and her personality. Novus studies
      in literature, 3. Oslo: Novus Press.

Macpherson, Patricia. 1983. The Puzzle of Sylvia Plath. Canterbury: University of Kent.

Macpherson, Pat. 1991. Reflecting on The bell jar. London: Routledge.

Majumdar, Keya. 2002. Sylvia Plath the complete poet. New Delhi: Prestige Books.

Malcolm, Janet. 1994. The silent woman Sylvia Plath & Ted Hughes. New York: A.A. Knopf.

Markey, Janice. 1985. A new tradition? the poetry of Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, and Adrienne Rich, a study of
      feminism and poetry
. Frankfurt am Main: P. Lang.

Markey, Janice. 1993. A journey into the red eye the poetry of Sylvia Plath, a critique. London: Women's Press.

Marsack, Robyn. 1992. Sylvia Plath. Open guides to literature. Buckingham [England]: Open University Press.

Matovich, Richard M., and Sylvia Plath. 1986. A concordance to The collected poems of Sylvia Plath. Garland
      reference library of the humanities, vol. 618. New York: Garland Pub.

Melander, Ingrid. 1972. The poetry of Sylvia Plath; a study of themes. Stockholm: Almquist & Wiksell.

Meyering, Sheryl L. 1990. Sylvia Plath a reference guide, 1973-1988. A Reference guide to literature. Boston, Mass: G.K. Hall.

Middlebrook, Diane Wood. 2003. Her husband Hughes and Plath--a marriage. New York: Viking.

Morrissey, Michael. 1981. She's not the child of Sylvia Plath poems. Christchurch: Sword Press.

Moses, Kate. 2003. Wintering. London: Sceptre.

Moses, Kate. 2003. Wintering a novel of Sylvia Plath. New York: Anchor Books.

Moses, Kate. 2003. Wintering a novel of Sylvia Plath. New York: St. Martin's Press.

Myers, Lucas. 2001. Crow steered bergs appeared a memoir of Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath. Sewanee, Tenn: Proctor's Hall Press.

Newman, Charles. 1970. The art of Sylvia Plath, a symposium. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

Nicholl, Charles, and Andrew Motion. 2004. Interrupted lives in literature. London: National Portrait Gallery.

Norris, Pamela. 2006. Words of love passionate women from Heloise to Sylvia Plath. London: HarperPress.

Northouse, Cameron, and Thomas P. Walsh. 1974. Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton a reference guide. Boston: G.K. Hall.

Novak, Robert D. 1983. Sleeping with Sylvia Plath. Windless orchard chapbook. [S.l.]: Windless Orchard.

Orr, Peter. 1966. The poet speaks interviews with contemporary poets conducted by Hilary Morrish, Peter Orr,
      John Press and Ian Scott-Kilvert
. London: Routledge & K. Paul.

Owen, Alison, John Brownlow, Christine Jeffs, Gwyneth Paltrow, Daniel Craig, Jared Harris, Amira Casar, et al. 2004.
      Sylvia. Universal City, CA: Universal.

Peel, Robin. 2002. Writing back Sylvia Plath and Cold War politics. Madison [NJ]: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press.

Phillips, Robert S. 1973. The confessional poets. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press.

Plath, Sylvia. 1997. The growth of a poet Sylvia Plath. The master poets collection. Thousand Oaks, CA: Monterey Home Video.

Plath, Sylvia, Edie Falco, and Clare Pollard. 2003. "Superman and Paula Brown's new snowsuit" by Sylvia Plath.
      [Princeton, N.J.]: Films for the Humanities & Sciences.

Plath, Sylvia, Aurelia Schober Plath, Richard J. Larschan, and Elizabeth Wilda. 2000. Poets of New England. Episode
      #108, Sylvia Plath and the myth of the monstrous mother
. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Plath, Sylvia, Aurelia Schober Plath, Richard J. Larschan, and Elizabeth Wilda. 2000. Poets of New England.
      Episode #109, Electry-Fying, Sylvia Plath and the myth of the omnipresent/absent father
. Amherst, MA:
      University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Pomeroy, Marnie. 2006. Sylvia Plath. Greenwich Exchange literary series. London: Greenwich Exchange.

Rajani, P. 2000. The poetry of Sylvia Plath. Hyderabad: Orient Longman Ltd.

Ramakrsnan, I. Vi. 1988. Crisis and confession studies in the poetry of Theodore Roethke, Robert Lowell,
      and Sylvia Plath
. Delhi: Chanakya Publications.

Raymond, Claire. 2006. The posthumous voice in women's writing from Mary Shelley to Sylvia Plath. Aldershot, England: Ashgate.

Reiff, Raychel Haugrud. 2008. Sylvia Plath The bell jar and poems. New York: Marshall Cavendish Benchmark.

Richardson, Susan. 2000. Virginia Woolf and Sylvia Plath Two of me now : a poetic drama. The Bloomsbury
      heritage series, 25. London: Cecil Woolf.

Rose, Jacqueline. 1992. The haunting of Sylvia Plath. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press.

Rosenblatt, Jon. 1979. Sylvia Plath the poetry of initiation. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.

Rowland, Antony. 2005. Holocaust poetry awkward poetics in the work of Sylvia Plath, Geoffrey Hill, Tony
      Harrison and Ted Hughes
. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

Rudolf, Anthony, Yves Bonnefoy, Audrey Jones, and Daniel Weissbort. 1995. Theme and version Plath and Ronsard.
      London: Menard Press.

Saldívar, Toni. 1992. Sylvia Plath confessing the fictive self. Writing about women, vol. 3. New York: Peter Lang.

Salop, Lynne. 1978. Suisong. New York: Vantage Press.

Sambrook, Hana, and Sylvia Plath. 1990. Sylvia Plath selected works. Longman literature guides. London: Longman.

Sarma, M. V. S. 2001. Study of Sylvia Plath and her works. Bareilly [India]: Prakash Book Depot.

Simpson, Louis Aston Marantz. 1978. A revolution in taste studies of Dylan Thomas, Allen Ginsberg, Sylvia Plath,
      and Robert Lowell
. New York: MacMillan.

Singh, Mina Surjit. 2003. Six women poets a cross-cultural study : Emily Dickinson, Sarojini Naidu, Sylvia Plath,
      Kamala Das Surayya, Adrienne Rich, Mamta Kalia
. New Delhi: Prestige Books.

Spurr, Barry. 1992. The poetry of Sylvia Plath. Newtown, N.S.W.: B. Spurr.

Steinberg, Peter K. 2004. Sylvia Plath. Philadelphia: Chelsea House Publishers.

Steiner, Nancy Hunter. 1973. A closer look at Ariel: a memory of Sylvia Plath. New York: Harper's Magazine Press.

Stevenson, Anne. 1989. Bitter fame a life of Sylvia Plath. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.

Strangeways, Al. 1998. Sylvia Plath the shaping of shadows. Madison: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press.

Swiontkowski, Gale. 2003. Imagining incest Sexton, Plath, Rich, and Olds on life with daddy. Selinsgrove, [Pa.]:
      Susquehanna University Press.

Tabor, Stephen. 1987. Sylvia Plath an analytical bibliography. Westport, Conn: Meckler Pub. Corp.

Tennant, Emma. 2001. Sylvia and Ted a novel. New York: Henry Holt.

Tennant, Emma. 2001. The ballad of Sylvia and Ted. Edinburgh: Mainstream Pub.

Thomas, Trevor. 1989. Sylvia Plath last encounters. Bedford, England: T. Thomas.

Tytell, John. 1991. Passionate lives D.H. Lawrence, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Henry Miller, Dylan Thomas, Sylvia Plath--in love.
      Secaucus, NJ: Carol Pub. Group.

Van Dyne, Susan R. 1993. Revising life Sylvia Plath's Ariel poems. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.

Van Mierlo, Wim. 2008. A Sylvia Plath / Ted Hughes chronology. New York : Palgrave.

Vendler, Helen Hennessy. 1987. Voices & visions the poet in America. New York: Random House.

Vendler, Helen Hennessy. 2003. Coming of age as a poet Milton, Keats, Eliot, Plath. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press.

Wagner, Erica. 2000. Ariel's gift a commentary on Birthday letters by Ted Hughes. London: Faber and Faber.

Wagner, Erica. 2001. Ariel's gift Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath and the story of the Birthday letters. New York: W.W. Norton.

Wagner-Martin, Linda. 1984. Critical essays on Sylvia Plath. Critical essays on American literature. Boston, Mass:G.K. Hall.

Wagner-Martin, Linda. 1987. Sylvia Plath a biography. New York: Simon and Schuster.

Wagner-Martin, Linda. 1988. Sylvia Plath a biography. London: Chatto & Windus.

Wagner-Martin, Linda. 1988. Sylvia Plath, the critical heritage. The Critical heritage series. London: Routledge.

Wagner-Martin, Linda. 1992. The bell jar, a novel of the fifties. Twayne's masterwork studies, no. 98. New York: Twayne.

Wagner-Martin, Linda. 1999. Sylvia Plath--a literary life. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: MacMillan.

Wagner-Martin, Linda. 2008. Sylvia Plath's poetry. London: Continuum.

Walder, Dennis. 1976. Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath. Arts, a third level course : Twentieth century poetry, unit 29. Milton
      Keynes: Open University Press.

Warren, Rebecca. 2001. Sylvia Plath selected poems. York notes. Harlow: Longman/York Press.

Wisker, Gina. 2001. Sylvia Plath a beginner's guide. London: Hodder & Stoughton.

Wolf, Manfred. 1974. On the death of Sylvia Plath and other poems women's voices from Holland and Flanders.
      San Francisco: Twowindows Press.

Wood, David John. 1992. A critical study of the birth imagery of Sylvia Plath, American poet, 1932-1963. Lewiston: E. Mellen Press.

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