Sylvia Plath Publications


This is fairly complete, but possibly not totally complete, list of periodical and monograph publications of Sylvia Plath's work. There are likely Plath publications no one has yet found. The types of works included in this list are poems, short stories, articles, essays, letters, and book reviews. There are several works in the list that are not in any previously published Plath bibliography. Publications in books appear at the end of the year in the chronological list below. Visit the periodical thumbnail gallery page to see covers of magazines in which Plath's work appeared.

Information is as complete an accurate as possible; please excuse any errors! The standard format I used is:
"Work title. Periodical name. Date: Page number." Please email me any corrections or additions. Thank you.




1940s

"8 Year old poet". The Boston Herald. August 10, 1941: B-8.

"Funny Faces". The Boston Herald. August 2, 1942: B-10.

"Hike to Lovell River". Weetamoe Megaphone. July 18, 1943: 1.

"Camping". Weetamoe Megaphone. July 18, 1943: 2.

"Troop 5 Valentine Party". Townsman. March 10, 1944: 4.

"Seventh Grade Girls". The Phillipian. November 1944: 16.

"The Spring Parade". The Phillipian. April 1945: 16.

"March". The Phillipian. April 1945: 19.

"The Rain". The Phillipian. June 1945: 20.

"My Garden". The Phillipian. November 1945: 7.

"A Winter Sunset". The Phillipian. February 1946: 6.

"The Snowflake Star". The Phillipian. February 1946: 9.

"Assembly Lineup: January 30" [unattributed]. The Phillipian. February 1946: 12.

"Visiting the Home Rooms: Room 5 - Miss Sullivan" [unattributed]. The Phillipian. April 1946: 7.

"Spring Song". The Phillipian. April 1946: 13.

"The Pond in Spring". The Phillipian. June 1946: 26.

"To Miss Cox". The Phillipian. November 1946: 3.

"October". The Phillipian. November 1946: 4.

"Club Doings". The Phillipian. November 1946: 14.

"A Morning in the Agora". The Phillipian. February 1947: 5.

"Fireside Reveries". The Phillipian. February 1947: 7.

"Book Lovers - Miss Craig". The Phillipian. February 1947: 18.

"Sea Symphony". The Phillipian. April 1947: 5.

"Victory". The Phillipian. April 1947: 6.

"Class Poem". The Phillipian. June 1947: 11.

"May". The Phillipian. June 1947: 26.

"Introducin'". The Bradford. October 30, 1947: 3.

"City Streets" [poem] and "Miss Palmer's Treasures" [Book review]. The Bradford. February 6, 1948: 2, 3.

"The Atomic Threat". The Bradford. April 26, 1948: 1.

[Artwork] and "Fog" [poem]. The Bradford. February 4, 1949: 2, 3.

"Sea Symphony". Student Life. March 1949: 31.

"April: 1949". The Bradford. March 28, 1949: 2.

"High School Highlights". Townsman. September 15, 1949: 3.

"Question". The Bradford. October 27, 1949: 2.

"White Phlox". The Bradford. October 27, 1949: 4.

"When I'm a Paren"t [no byline]. Seventeen. November 1949: 77

1950s

1950


"Bradford Editors Attend Boston Tea Party!!" The Bradford?. circa January-February 1950.

"Youth's Plea for World Peace". The Christian Science Monitor. March 16, 1950: 19.

"Complaint". The Bradford. March 24, 1950: 3.

"Family Reunion". The Bradford. April 29, 1950: 2.

"The Farewell". The Bradford. April 29, 1950: 2.

"And Summer Will Not Come Again". Seventeen. August 1950: 191, 275-6.

"Bitter Strawberries". The Christian Science Monitor. August 11, 1950: 17.

"Rewards of a New England Summer". The Christian Science Monitor. September 12, 1950: 15.

"Ode to a Bitten Plum". Seventeen. November 1950: 104.

"Evolution". Experiment Magazine. December 1950: 8.

1951


[Excerpts from a letter to Olive Higgins Prouty, 29 November 1950.] Smith Alumnae Quarterly. February 1951: 77.

"Den of Lions". Seventeen. May 1951: 127, 144-5.

"In Retrospect: A Plea for Moderation". The Princeton Tiger. May 5, 1951: 14-15.

"As a Baby-Sitter Sees It" [part I]. The Christian Science Monitor. November 6, 1951: 19.

"As a Baby-Sitter Sees It" [part II]. The Christian Science Monitor. November 7, 1951: 21.

"Says Capitalism May Save Asia". Daily Hampshire Gazette. November 16, 1951: 10.

"Can Benefit By the Writing of Satirists". Daily Hampshire Gazette. November 21, 1951: 3.

"Smith Girls to Take Exams in Civil Service". Daily Hampshire Gazette. December 5, 1951: 3.

"'True Health' Lecture Topic At The College". Daily Hampshire Gazette. December 14, 1951: 7.

1952


"Says Music Can Illustrate Cultural Life". Daily Hampshire Gazette. January 17, 1952: 8.

"Universal Faith Has the Answer, Dr. Niebuhr Says". Springfield Union. February 5, 1952: 21.

"'Crisis' Is Topic of Dr. Niebuhr In Northampton". Springfield Union. February 6, 1952: 21.

"Smith Students Have Service of Koffee Klatch". Daily Hampshire Gazette. February 20, 1952: 3.

"Dr. A. Gesell Gives Lecture For Day School PTA". Daily Hampshire Gazette. March 3, 1952: 16.

"'Heresy Hunts' Menace Liberty: Struik Claims". Springfield Union. March 4, 1952: 2.

"Rev. Dr. Roberts Will Be Vespers Speaker". Daily Hampshire Gazette. March 7, 1952: 6.

"Life University Second Program Slated Sunday". Springfield Union. March 7, 1952: 30.

"Misery of Man is Due to His Defects". Daily Hampshire Gazette. March 11, 1952: 5.

"Marxism Seeks to Replace God, Lecturer Says". Springfield Union. March 13, 1952: 30.

"Smith Hears Frost in Muse and Views". Springfield Union. April 10, 1952: 31.

"Frost Presents Poetry Readings". Daily Hampshire Gazette. April 11, 1952: 12.

"Smith College". Daily Hampshire Gazette. April 18, 1952: 5.

"Ogden Nash's Rhyming Knack Makes Up for His Talent Lack". Springfield Union. April 30, 1952: 30.

"Ogden Nash is Speaker". Daily Hampshire Gazette. May 2, 1952: 6.

"Smith Library Displaying 'Fanny Fern Collection'". Daily Hampshire Gazette. May 5, 1952: 8.

"15 Area Girls to Graduate from Smith College on June 9". Daily Hampshire Gazette. May 27, 1952: 9.

"T.V. Or Not T.V." ["Virus TV: (We Don't Have a Set Either)"] and "Be Mine – For Now" ["Valentine: Lines for a Rich Bachelor"]. The Campus Cat, Vol. IV, No. 4. Commencement Issue 1952: 1, 3.

"Sunday at the Mintons'". Mademoiselle. August 1952: 255, 371-8.

"White Phlox". The Christian Science Monitor. August 27, 1952: 12.

[Untitled ("White Phlox")]. The Selma Times Journal. September 2, 1952: 2.

"Riverside Reverie". The Christian Science Monitor. September 9, 1952: 8.

"Sunday at the Mintons'". Smith Review. Fall 1952: 3-9.

"The Perfect Setup". Seventeen. October 1952: 76, 100-4.

"Freshman at Smith Will Meet Local Ministers". Daily Hampshire Gazette. October 1, 1952: 9.

"Freshman to Greet Pastors of Churches". The Springfield Daily News. October 1, 1952: 32

"Smith Events". Daily Hampshire Gazette. October 2, 1952: 15.

"Succoth Service". The Springfield Daily News. October 2, 1952: 32.

"Can Rent Reproductions". Daily Hampshire Gazette. October 2, 1952: 15.

"Faith Groups Open Center For Students". The Springfield Daily News. October 6, 1952: 26.

"Central Spot for Religion Groups at Smith". Daily Hampshire Gazette. October 7, 1952: 16.

"Smith Outing Club Will Bike To Hatfield". The Springfield Daily News. October 15, 1952: 32.

"Lectures Arranged by Hillel Foundation". The Springfield Daily News. October 17, 1952: 32.

"Varied Religions and Cultural Program Planned For Smith College Students". Daily Hampshire Gazette. October 17, 1952: 6.

"First Recital at Smith College is Sunday at 8:30". Daily Hampshire Gazette. October 24, 1952: 15.

"First Recital Sunday". The Springfield Daily News. October 24, 1952: 30.

"Smith College Holds Clinic". Daily Hampshire Gazette. October 24, 1952: 17.

"Sports Clinic at Smith". The Springfield Daily News. October 24, 1952: 30.

"Cheers, Jeers Promised for Smith Game". Daily Hampshire Gazette. October 27, 1952: 8.

"Smith Girls Will Get Chance to Jeer Faculty". The Springfield Daily News. October 27, 1952: 30.

"Week-End Dance". Daily Hampshire Gazette. November 7, 1952: 5.

"Hillel Group Plans First Social Function". The Springfield Daily News. November 7, 1952: 32.

"Smith Provides Writing Clinic". Springfield Sunday Republican. November 9, 1952: 62.

"Mrs. L. Diem of Cologne Visiting Smith". Daily Hampshire Gazette. November 11, 1952: 5.

"More Than 100 Varieties of Chrysanthemums Will Be Seen at Lyman Plant House". Daily Hampshire Gazette. November 11, 1952: 6.

"Chrysanthemums are on Display at Smith". The Springfield Daily News. November 11, 1952: 9.

"Twelfth Night". Seventeen. December 1952: 75.

"Newly Revised Edition of 'Smith Review' Has Articles by Students". Daily Hampshire Gazette. December 12, 1952: 7.

"College Group Will Debate on February 11". Daily Hampshire Gazette. December 12, 1952: 7.

"Student's Prize Story Featured in Review". The Springfield Daily News. December 12, 1952: 32.

"Crossing the Equinox". America Sings: 1952 Anthology of College Poetry. Los Angeles: National Poetry Association, 1952: 14.

1953


"Initiation". Seventeen. January 1953: 64-5, 92-4.

"The Suitcases are Packed Again". Seventeen. March 1953: 91.

"Drive for Hymnals at Smith College". Daily Hampshire Gazette. March 13, 1953: 8.

"Passoved [sic] Will Be Marked Monday at Smith College". Daily Hampshire Gazette. March 21, 1953: 4.

"Smith College Seder". The Springfield Daily News. March 21, 1953: 7.

"Mad Girl's Love Song" and "Two Villanelles" ["To Eva Descending the Stair" and "Doomsday"]. Smith Review. Spring 1953: 13, 22.

"Carnival Nocturne". Seventeen. April 1953: 127.

"Shale that is 400,000,000 Years Old at Smith Lab". Daily Hampshire Gazette. April 14, 1953: 12.

"John Mason Brown Lectures on Writer's Responsibility". Daily Hampshire Gazette. April 15, 1953: 18.

"Laughton holds audience spellbound with readings". Daily Hampshire Gazette. May 6, 1953: 3.

"Smith Christians Group Points to Achievements". Daily Hampshire Gazette. May 14, 1953: 23.

"Smith College Field Events Saturday Afternoon, Night". Daily Hampshire Gazette. May 15, 1953: 1, 12.

"Float Night at College". The Springfield Daily News. May 15, 1953: 9.

"Smith College Play Delights 'Hamp Audience". Springfield Union. May 15, 1953: 31.

"Austrian-born Junior enlists in Women's Marine Corps, 'Can't wait to get there'". Daily Hampshire Gazette. May 16, 1953: 2.

"Many Area Students Are Among the 464 Who Will Get Smith Degrees on June 8". Daily Hampshire Gazette. May 20, 1953: 8.

"Riverside Reverie". The Enquirer and News (Battle Creek, Mich.). June 25, 1953: 3.

"Mlle's Last Word on College", "'53, Elizabeth Bowen and Sylvia", "Poets on Campus", and "Mad Girl's Love Song". Mademoiselle. August 1953: 235, 282, 290-1, 358.

"Mad Girl's Love Song". Boston Evening American. Final Edition. August 26, 1953: 2.

"Mad Girl's Love Song". Boston Evening American. Sports Charts Entries Edition. August 26, 1953: 2.

"Mad Girl's Love Song". Boston Evening American. Sports Entries Results Edition. August 26, 1953: 2.

"Smith Review Revived". Smith Alumnae Quarterly. Fall 1953: 26.

1954


"14 Colleges to Take Part in Poetry Reading Festival". Daily Hampshire Gazette. May 6, 1954: 9.

"Doomsday". Harper's Magazine. May 1954: 29.

"Admonition", "Never try to know more than you should", "Verbal Calisthenics", and "Denouement". Smith Review. Spring 1954: 3, 17, 23.

"In the Mountains" and "Circus in Three Rings". Smith Review. Fall 1954: 2-5, 18.

"The Neilson Professor". Smith Alumnae Quarterly. Fall 1954: 12.

"To Eva Descending the Stair". Harper's Magazine. September 1954: 63.

"Go Get the Goodly Squab". Harper's Magazine. November 1954: 47.

1955


"Dialogue en Route". Smith Review. January 1955: 12-13.

"Many happy returns" [Letter]. Mademoiselle. March 1955: 64.

"Danse Macabre" and "Superman and Paula Brown's New Snowsuit". Smith Review. Spring 1955: 12, 19-21.

"April Aubade" (excerpt). The Christian Science Monitor. April 18, 1955: 2.

"Circus in Three Rings". Atlantic Monthly. August 1955: 68.

"Two Lovers and a Beachcomber by the Real Sea". Mademoiselle. August 1955: 52, 62.

"Temper of Time". Nation. August 6, 1955: 119.

"Lament". New Orleans Poetry Journal. October 1955: 19.

1956


"Epitaph in Three Parts" and "'Three Caryatids Without a Portico' by Hugh Robus. A Study in Sculptural Dimensions". Chequer 9. Winter 1956: 2, 3.

"Leaves from a Cambridge Notebook" [part I]. The Christian Science Monitor. March 5, 1956: 17.

"Leaves from a Cambridge Notebook" [part II]. The Christian Science Monitor. March 6, 1956: 15.

"Prologue to Spring and Second Winter". Sophian. April 10, 1956: 2.

"An American in Paris". Varsity. April 21, 1956: 6, 7.

"Smith College in Retrospect". Varsity. May 12, 1956: 6, 7.

"Cambridge Letter". Isis. May 16, 1956: 9.

"Sylvia Plath Tours the Stores and Forecasts May Week Fashions". Varsity. May 26, 1956: 6, 7.

"Winter Words". Delta. Summer 1956: p 5-6.

"Prologue to Spring". Chequer. Summer 1956: 13.

"B. and K. and the Claridge". Smith Alumnae Quarterly. Fall 1956: 16-17.

"The Day Mr. Prescott Died". Granta. October 20, 1956: 20-3.

"Apotheosis" and "Second Winter". Lyric. Winter 1956: 10-11.

"Epitaph for Fire and Flower", "On the Difficulty of Conjuring up a Dryad", "Miss Drake Proceeds to Supper", and "November Graveyard". Chequer. Winter 1956-7: 3, 4, 6, 10.

"Sketchbook of a Spanish Summer" [part I]. The Christian Science Monitor. November 5, 1956: 15.

"Sketchbook of a Spanish Summer" [part II]. The Christian Science Monitor. November 6, 1956: 19.

"Ella Mason and Her Eleven Cats". Granta. November 10, 1956: 25.

"Second Winter". The Morning Press (Bloomsburg, PA). November 30, 1956: 4.

"Apotheosis". The Morning Press (Bloomsburg, PA). December 1, 1956: 4.

1957


"Wreath for a Bridal", "Dream with Clam-Digger", "Strumpet Song", "Metamorphosis", "Two Sisters of Persephone", and "Epitaph for Fire and Flower". Poetry. January 1957: 231-7.

"Pursuit". Atlantic Monthly. January 1957: 65.

"The Wishing Box". Granta. January 26, 1957: 3-5.

"Resolve", "Two Lovers and a Beachcomber by the Real Sea", and "Dream with Clam-Digger". Granta. March 9, 1957: 15.

"Spinster" and "Vanity Fair". Gemini. Spring 1957: 6-8.

"Mad Girl's Love Song" and "Soliloquy of the Solipsist". Granta. May 4, 1957: 19.

"Black Rook in Rainy Weather". Granta. May 18, 1957: 9.

"Black Rook in Rainy Weather". Antioch Review. June 1957: 232-3.

"On the Plethora of Dryads". New Mexico Quarterly. Autumn 1957: 211-12.

"All the Dead Dears" and a "Review of Stones of Troy by C.A. Trypanis". Gemini. Summer 1957: 53-9, 98-103.

"The Snowman on the Moor", "Sow", "Ella Mason and Her Eleven Cats", and "On the Difficulty of Conjuring up a Dryad". Poetry 90. July 1957: 229-36.

"Recantation" and "Tinker Jack and the Tidy Wives". Accent. Autumn 1957: 247-8.

"All the Dead Dears". Grecourt Review. November 1957: 36-7.

"Hughes Depicts Cambridge Scene" [interview]. Sophian. November 7, 1957: 3-4.

"Aubade" ["April Aubade"] and "Two Lovers and a Beachcomber By the Real Sea". Best Poems of 1955. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1957: 111-12.

1958


"Spinster" and "Black Rook in Rainy Weather". London Magazine. June 1958: 46-8.

"Spinster". Smith Alumnae Quarterly. June 1958: 71.

"Mussel Hunter at Rock Harbor". The New Yorker. August 9, 1958: 22.

"Beach Plum Season on Cape Cod". The Christian Science Monitor. August 14, 1958: 17.

"Night Walk" ["Hardcastle Crags"]. The New Yorker. October 11, 1958: 40.

"Second Winter". Ladies Home Journal. December 1958: 143.

"Cambridge Vistas". Institute of International Education New Bulletin. December 1958: 22-28.

"Spinster". The Guinness Book of Poetry 1956-1957. London: Putnam, 1958: 88.

"Sow". New Poems 1958. London: Michael Joseph, 1958: 77-8.

"Pursuit" and "Epitaph for Fire and Flower". Best Poems of 1957. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1958: 73-6.

"All the Dead Dears", "Black Rook in Rainy Weather", "Miss Drake Proceeds to Supper", and "Epitaph for Fire and Flower". Poetry from Cambridge. London: The Fortune Press, 1958: 41-5.

1959


"The Times and Tidy" and "Four Young Poets" [interview]. Mademoiselle. January 1959: 34-5, 85.

"Frog Autumn". Nation. January 24, 1959: 74.

"The Companionable Ills". Spectator. January 30, 1959: 163.

"Main Street at Midnight" ["Owl"]. Spectator. February 13, 1959: 227.

"Snakecharmer", "Lorelei", and "The Disquieting Muses". London Magazine. March 1959: 33-6.

"Whiteness I Remember". The Christian Science Monitor. March 5, 1959: 12.

"Departure". Nation. March 7, 1959: 212.

"Prologue to Spring". The Christian Science Monitor. March 23, 1959: 8.

"Prologue to Spring". The New York Herald Tribune. March 29, 1959: A4.

"Prologue to Spring". The Warrensburg News (N.Y.). April 2, 1959: 2.

"Prologue to Spring". The Belleville Times (N.J.). April 3, 1959: 5.

"Prologue to Spring". The Lethbridge Herald (Alberta, Canada). April 11, 1959: 4.

"Yadwigha, on a Red Couch, Among Lilies". The Christian Science Monitor. March 26, 1959: 8.

"Lorelei", "Full Fathom Five", and "The Hermit at Outermost House". Audience. Spring 1959: 33-6.

"The Bull of Bendylaw". Horn Book Magazine. April 1959: 148.

"Bathtub Battle Scene" ["Battle-Scene from the Comic Operatic Fantasy 'The Seafarer'"]. The Christian Science Monitor. April 25, 1959: 12.

"Sculptor". Grecourt Review. May 1959: 282.

"Above the Oxbow". The Christian Science Monitor. May 4, 1959: 8.

"Kitchen of the Fig Tree". The Christian Science Monitor. May 5, 1959: 8.

"A Walk to Withens". The Christian Science Monitor. June 6, 1959: 12.

"Poem" ["Night Shift"]. The Observer. June 14, 1959: 22.

"Departure of the Ghost" ["The Ghost's Leavetaking"] and "Point Shirley". Sewanne Review 67. Summer 1959: 446-8.

"Midsummer Mobile". The Christian Science Monitor. July 1, 1959: 8.

"Fiesta Melons". The Christian Science Monitor. July 13, 1959: 8.

"Fiesta Melons". The Decatur Herald. August 14, 1959: 6.

"Song for a Summer's Day". The Christian Science Monitor. August 18, 1959: 8.

"Southern Sunrise". The Christian Science Monitor. August 26, 1959: 8.

"On the Decline of Oracles", "The Death of Myth-Making", and "A Lesson in Vengeance". Poetry. September 1959: 368-71.

"I Want, I Want". Partisan Review. Fall 1959: 558.

"Aftermath", "The Goring", and "Sculptor". Arts in Society. Fall 1959: 66-7.

"In Midas' Country" and "The Thin People". London Magazine. October 1959: 11-13.

"Southern Sunrise". The Selma Times Journal. October 6, 1959: 3.

"Mosaics--An Afternoon of Discovery". The Christian Science Monitor. October 12, 1959: 15.

"Explorations lead to interesting discoveries". The Christian Science Monitor. October 19, 1959: 17.

"Yaddo: The Grand Manor". The Christian Science Monitor. October 21, 1959: 8.

"Magnolia Shoals". The Christian Science Monitor. October 26, 1959: 8.

"Two Views of a Cadaver Room" and "The Hermit at Outermost House". Times Literary Supplement. November 6, 1959: 23, 29.

"A Winter's Tale". The New Yorker. December 12, 1959: 116.

"Dark Wood, Dark Water". The Christian Science Monitor. December 17, 1959: 12.

"Memoirs of a Spinach-Picker". The Christian Science Monitor. December 29, 1959: 8.

1960s

1960


"Dark Wood, Dark Water". The Selma Times Journal. January 19, 1960: 3.

"Two Views of a Cadaver Room". Nation. January 30, 1960: 107.

"Midsummer Mobile". The Selma Times Journal. March 14, 1960: 3.

"Man in Black". The New Yorker. April 9, 1960: 40.

"The Daughters of Blossom Street". London Magazine. May 1960: 34-48.

"The Beggars" and "The Eye-Mote". Chelsea Review. May 1960: 70-1.

"Watercolor for Grantchester Meadow". The New Yorker. May 28, 1960: 30.

"The Sleepers" and "Full Fathom Five". London Magazine. June 1960: 11-13.

"The Manor Garden", "The Beggars", and "Blue Moles". Critical Quarterly 2. Summer 1960: 155-7.

"Metaphors for a Pregnant Woman" ["Metaphors"]. Partisan Review. Summer 1960: 435.

"A Winter Ship". Atlantic Monthly. July 1960: 65.

"Mushrooms". Harpers Magazine. July 1960: 25.

"The Net Menders". The New Yorker. August 20, 1960: 36.

"Ouija", "Electra on Azalea Path", "Suicide Off Egg Rock", and "Moonrise". Hudson Review. Autumn 1960: 413-16.

"The Beekeeper's Daughter" and "The Colossus". Kenyon Review. Autumn 1960: 595-6.

"The Fifteen Dollar Eagle". Sewanee Review. Autumn 1960: 603-18.

"The Manor Garden". Atlantic Monthly. September 1960: 52.

"Flute Notes from a Reedy Pond". Texas Quarterly. Winter 1960: 120.

"Candles". The Listener. November 17, 1960: 877.

"Medallion". Poetry 1960: An Appetiser. Critical Quarterly Poetry Supplement, no. 1. 1960: 20.

"Hardcastle Crags" and "Epitaph for Fire and Flower". Light Blue Dark Blue. London: Macdonald, 1960: 166-7, 222-3.

"Two Views of a Cadaver Room" and "Hardcastle Crags". The Golden Year. New York: The Fine Editions Press, 1960: 219-21.

"The Disquieting Muses". The Guinness Book of Poetry 1958-1959. London: Putnam, 1960: 106-7.

"On the Plethora of Dryads" and "Spinster". Best Poems of 1958. Palo Alto: Pacific Books, 1960: 76-8.

"Prologue to Spring". University and College Poetry Prizes 1955-1959. New York: Academy of American Poets, 1960: 11.

1961


"The Fifty-Ninth Bear". London Magazine. February 1961: 11-20.

"A Winter Ship". Encounter. February 1961: 23.

"Magi". New Statesman. March 31, 1961: 514.

"A Life". The Listener. May 4, 1961: 776.

"Morning Song". Observer. May 21, 1961: 25.

"You're". Harper's Magazine. June 1961: 40.

"Private Ground" and "I am Vertical". Critical Quarterly 3. Summer 1961: 140-1.

"On Deck". The New Yorker. July 22, 1961: 32.

"Words for a Nursery". Atlantic Monthly. August 1961: 66.

"Zoo Keepers Wife", "You're", "Small Hours" ["Barren Woman"], "Parliament Hill Fields", "Whitsun", and "Leaving Early". London Magazine. August 1961: 5-10.

"Witch Burning". Texas Quarterly. Autumn 1961: 84.

"The Perfect Place". My Weekly. October 28, 1961: 3-7, 31.

"General Jodpur's Conversion". New Statesman. November 10, 1961: 696, 698.

"Mojave Desert" ["Sleep in the Mojave Desert"]. The Observer. November 19, 1961: 28.

"Tulips". Poetry at the Mermaid. London: Poetry Book Society, July 1961: 53-54.

"Introduction". American Poetry Now. Critical Quarterly Poetry Supplement, No. 2. 1961: 2.

"Medallion". The Guinness Book of Poetry 1959-1960. London: Putnam, 1961: 99.

"Snakecharmer", "The Disquieting Muses", and "The Thin People". Best Poems of 1959. Palo Alto: Pacific Books, 1961: 76-8.

"Insomniac". Guinness Poetry Award, 1960-1961: Winning Poems. [London]: [A. Guinness, Son & Co.], [1962?].

1962


"The Rival". The Observer. January 21, 1962: 31.

"Sleep in the Mojave Desert". Harper's Magazine. February 1962: 36.

"In Plaster" and "Context". London Magazine. February 1962: 15-17-45-6.

"Stars Over the Dordogne", "Widow", "Face Lift", "Heavy Woman", and "Love Letter". Poetry. March 1962: 346-51.

"Wuthering Heights". New Statesman. March 16, 1962: 390.

"The Colossus". Encounter. April 1962: 56.

"Tulips". The New Yorker. April 7, 1962: 40.

"Pair of Queens". New Statesman. April 27, 1962: 602-3.

"Oblongs". New Statesman. May 18, 1962: 724.

Blurb on The Big River by Elizabeth and Gerald Rose. The Observer. June 17, 1962: 27.

"Private Ground". Harper's Magazine. August 1962: 55.

"Finisterre". The Observer. August 5, 1962: 14.

"Blackberrying". The New Yorker. September 15, 1962: 48.

"The Surgeon at 2 A.M". The Listener. September 20, 1962: 428.

"Crossing the Water". The Observer. September 23, 1962: 25.

"Oregonian Original". New Statesman. November 9, 1962: 660.

"Leaving Early". Harper's Magazine. December 1962: 82.

"Suffering Angel". New Statesman. December 7, 1962: 828-9.

"Event". The Observer. December 16, 1962: 21.

"Parliament Hill Fields". English Poetry Now. Critical Quarterly Poetry Supplement, No. 3. 1962: 10-11.

"Insomniac". Handbook to the Cheltenham Festival of Literature. 1962.

"Insomniac". The Guinness Book of Poetry 1960-1961. London: Putnam, 1962: 33.

"Candles" and "You're". New Poems 1962. London: Hutchinson, 1962: 95-7.

"Frog Autumn" and "Metaphors". Penguin Book of Contemporary Verse, 1918-1960. New rev. ed. Harmondsworth, England: Penguin Books, 1962: 388-90.

"Medallion". The London Bridge Book of Verse, 1900-1960. London: Heinemann, 1962: 88-90.

1963


"Stopped Dead" and "The Applicant". London Magazine. January 1963: 14-16.

"Winter Trees". The Observer. January 13, 1963: 22.

Quotes from Books [Excerpt from The Bell Jar]. Time & Tide. January 17, 1963: ?.

1963 - posthumous


"Edge", "The Fearful", "Kindness", and "Contusion". The Observer. February 17, 1963: 23.

"A Birthday Present". Critical Quarterly 5. Spring 1963: 3-4.

"The Bee Meeting", "Stings", "Cut", "Letter in November", "The Couriers", "Mary's Song", and "Years". London Magazine. April 1963: 24-32.

"The Arrival of the Bee-Box" and "Wintering". Atlantic. April 1963: 70-1.

"America! America!" Punch. April 3, 1963: 482-4.

"Child". New Statesman. May 3, 1963: 683.

"Berck-Plage". London Magazine. June 1963: 26-31.

"For a Fatherless Son". Critical Quarterly 5. Summer 1963: 115.

"Fever 103°", "Purdah", and "Eavesdropper". Poetry. August 1963: 292-8.

"Two Campers in Cloud Country", "The Elm Speaks" ["Elm"], "Mystic", "Amnesiac", "Mirror", "Among the Narcissi", and "The Moon and the Yew Tree". The New Yorker. August 3, 1963: 28-9.

"Ocean 1212-W". The Listener. August 29, 1963: 312-13.

"Daddy", "Lady Lazarus", "Fever 103°", "Ariel", "Poppies in October", "Nick and the Candlestick", "Brasilia", "Mary's Song", and "Lesbos". Review. October 1963: 4-19.

"Death & Co.", "The Swarm", "The Other", "Getting There", "Lady Lazarus", "Little Fugue", "Childless Woman", "The Jailer", "Thalidomide", and "Daddy". Encounter. October 1963: 45-52.

"Poppies in October". The Observer. October 6, 1963: 24.

"The Horse" ["Ariel"]. The Observer. November 3, 1963: 24.

"Face Lift"., "Private Ground"., and "Wuthering Heights".. Best Poems of 1962. Palo Alto: Pacific Books, 1963: 119-22.

"The Moon and the Yew Tree" and "Tulips". New Poems 1963. London: Hutchinson, 1963: 93-5.

"The Surgeon at 2 a.m." and "In Plaster". Penguin Book of Sick Verse. Harmondsworth, England: Penguin Books, 1963: 14-16, 20-2.

"Mushrooms" and "Morning Song". Anthology of Modern Poetry. London: Hutchinson, 1963: 68-70, 91.

"Black Rook in Rainy Weather" and "The Colossus". Modern Poets: An American-British Anthology. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1963: 255-8. "Edge". Sixty-one: A Magazine for the Arts. Leeds: [s.n.], [1963?]: 32.

1964-1969


"The Wishing Box". Granta 75. February 15, 1964: 4-6.

"The Munich Mannequins" and "Totem". New York Review of Books. February 20, 1964: 13.

"The Wishing Box". Atlantic Monthly. October 1964: 86-9.

"Daddy", "Small Hours" and "In Plaster". New Poetry 1964. Critical Quarterly Poetry Supplement, No. 5. 1964: 2-6.

"A Birthday Present", "The Bee Meeting", "The Arrival of the Bee Box", and "Wintering". Best Poems of 1963. Palo Alto: Pacific Books, 1964: 105-13.

"The Rabbit Catcher". The Observer. February 7, 1965: 26.

"November Graveyard". Mademoiselle. November 1965: 134.

"The Bee Meeting" and "Lady Lazarus". American Poetry 1965. Critical Quarterly Poetry Supplement, No. 6. 1965: 2-5.

"Daddy", "Lady Lazarus", "The Moon and the Yew Tree", "The Arrival of the Bee Box", "The Swarm", "Childless Woman", and "Mary's Song". The New Poetry (Second, revised edition). 1966: 61-72.

"An Appearance". Times Literary Supplement. January 20, 1966: 42.

"Lesbos". New York Review of Books. May 12, 1966: 4-5.

"The Death of Myth-Making", "Sow", "Watercolor for Grantchester Meadows", "The Colossus", "Mushrooms", "Sculptor", "In Plaster", "Lesbos", "Words for a Nursery", "Nick and the Candlestick", "Stings", "Fever 103°", "Cut", "The Bee Meeting", "Death & Co.", "Daddy", "Lady Lazarus", and "Words". TriQuarterly. Fall 1966: 11-38.

"You're". New Poems 1966. Critical Quarterly Poetry Supplement, No. 7: 1966: 13.

"Danse Macabre", "Admonition" ["Trio of Love Songs"], "Doomsday", "Dialogue en Route", "Circus in Three Rings", "Mad Girl's Love Song", and "The Eye-Mote". Harvard Advocate. May 1967: 2-4.

"Eccentricity" [Excerpt from "What Made You Stay?"]. The Listener. May 9, 1968: 607.

Two Poems [Excerpt from "Three Women"]. Critical Quarterly. Autumn 1968: 213-214.

"Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams". Atlantic Monthly. September 1968: 54-60.

[Extract from "Three Women: A Radio Play"]. Transatlantic Review. Winter 1968-1969: 51-52.

"Street Song", "Natural History", "Resolve", "Aerialist" and [Facsimile note to Wendy]. Cambridge Review. February 7, 1969: 244-5, 253.

"Complaint of the Crazed Queen" ["The Queen's Complaint"], "Battle-Scene From the Comic Operatic Fantasy The Seafarer", "Dialogue en Route", "Letter to a Purist", and "Dream of the Hearse-Driver" ["The Dream"]. Times Literary Supplement. July 31, 1969: 855.

[Extract from "Three Women: A Radio Play"]. Quarterly Review of Literature. 1969: 197-198.

1970s

"Heavy Woman" and "Mirror". Nova. May 1970: 37.

"The Jailor"". RAT Subterranean News. June 5-19, 1970: 11.

"Two Campers in Cloud Country" and "On Deck". Critical Quarterly. Summer 1970: 149-50.

"Lyonnesse". The Observer. May 10, 1970: 31.

"Gigolo". The New Yorker. November 21, 1970: 54.

"Widow", "Insomniac", "Candles", and "Mirror". Poetry 1971. 1971: 5-9.

"Last Words". New American Review. 1971: 232.

"The Babysitters", "Pheasant", "The Courage of Shutting-Up", "Apprehensions", "For a Fatherless Son", and "By Candlelight". The New Yorker. March 6, 1971: 36-7.

"Stillborn". New Statesman. March 19, 1971: 384.

"What I found out about Buddy Willard" [extract from The Bell Jar]. McCall's. April 1971: 86-87.

"The Tour". Times Literary Supplement. May 28, 1971: 610.

"Candles", "Sleep in the Mojave Desert", "Crossing the Water", "Wuthering Heights", "Insomniac", "Mirror", "In Plaster", "Last Words", and "An Appearance". Critical Quarterly. Summer 1971: 165-72.

"The Courage of Shutting-Up", "For a Fatherless Son", "By Candlelight", and "Gigolo". London Magazine. August-September 1971: 41-46.

[Extract from The Bell Jar]. Cosmopolitan. September 1971: 188-191.

"Crossing the Water", "Lady Lazarus", and "Edge". Intellectual Digest. November 1971: 95.

"Stopped Dead" and "Winter Trees". Mademoiselle. March 1972: 30.

"Three Women: A Poem for Three Voices". Ms. Spring 1972: 85-88.

"The Mother's Union" ["Mothers"]. McCall's. October 1972: 81, 126, 128, 130, 142.

"Metamorphosis". Poetry. October 1972: 25.

"Mirror", "Widow", "Insomniac", "Candles". Critical Quarterly Poetry Supplement, No. 12: 1972: 5-9.

"Morning Song". Redbook. January 1973: 76.

"The Day Mr. Prescott Died". Spare Rib. June 1973: 36-8.

"Ode to a Bitten Plum". Seventeen. January 1974: 136.

"For a Fatherless Son" and "Lady Lazarus". Dialogue 7:1. 1974: 84-85.

"Day of Success". Bananas. 1975: 11-13.

"I Thought That I Could Not Be Hurt", "Burning the Letters", "Waking in Winter". Bananas. Summer 1975: 25.

"Sylvia Plath on her love and marriage" [excerpts from Letters Home. Mademoiselle. July 1975: 82-7, 124, 127.

"Letters from Sylvia". Smith Alumnae Quarterly. February 1976: 3-10.

"The Bed Book". Woman's Day. October 1976: 98-99.

"The Bed Book". Cricket. December 1976: 32-38.

[Extracts from the Cambridge Journals]. Mars. 1977: 19-24.

"The Novelist and the Poet" ["A Comparison"]. The Listener. July 7, 1977: 26.

"Superman and Paula Brown's New Snowsuit". Harper's and Queen. October 1977: 222-228.

"Cambridge Notes". American Poetry Review. May-June 1978: 33-36.

"Among the Bumblebees". Bananas. Autumn 1978: 14-15.

"Nine Letters to Lynne Lawner". Antaeus 28. Winter 1978: 31-51.

"Stings (2)" and "Words heard, by accident, over the phone". Antaeus 30/31. Spring 1978: 41-42.

1980s

"Walking in Winter" ["Waking in Winter"], "Barren Woman", and "Perseus: The Triumph of Wit Over Suffering". New York Times Book Review. August 2, 1981: 7.

"Incommunicado", "Morning in the Hospital Solarium", "Black Pine Tree in Orange Light", and "Rhyme". The American Poetry Review. September-October 1982: 8.

"Moonsong at morning", "Epitaph in Three Parts", "Insolent Storm Strikes at the Skull", "Winter Words", and "Ice Age". Envoy. 1981-1982: 1-5.

"Letter to a Demon". The New York Times. April 18, 1982: E-21.

"Paradise Pond". Grand Street 1. Winter 1982: 63-69.

1990s

"Medusa", "Letter in November", "Tulips", "The Rabbit Catcher", "Death & Co.", and "Edge". The New Yorker. August 23 & 30, 1993: 93, 133, 136-37, 148, 151, 154.

"By Candlelight". The Washington Post. March 15, 1998: Book World 2.

"I lean outward to the sky" [first line]. The Guardian. November 20, 1998: 2.

"Black Rook in Rainy Weather". Field. Fall 1998: 10-11.

2000s

"Sylvia's Story". The Guardian. March 18, 2000: 11-20.

"Lady Lazarus". The Guardian. March 18, 2000: 16.

"Pursuit". The Guardian. March 18, 2000: 19.

"The Sylvia Plath Diaries: He is a genius I his wife...". The Guardian. March 20, 2000: 3-5.

"The Applicant". The Guardian. March 18, 2000: 2.

"The Sylvia Plath Diaries: All about my mother". The Guardian. March 21, 2000: 6-7.

"Sylvia Plath and Dorothea Krook: The pupil / tutor relationship". The London Magazine. August - September 2003: 24-31.

"Ennui". Blackbird. Fall 2006.

"A Comparison". Brick. Winter 2006: 140-141.

"Mirror". Court Green 5. 2008: 184.

"'Dearest Teddy-ponk, you must scold me, beat me, help me'" [Letter excerpts]. The Telegraph. September 23, 2017: 4-8.

"The unseen letters of Sylvia Plath: Before Ted, there was Ed" [Letter excerpts]. The Telegraph. September 24, 2017: 19, 21.

"'I want to kill this bloody girl to whom my misery is just sauce'" [Letter excerpts]. The Daily Mail. August 27, 2018.

"'I still love Ted — the knowledge I am ugly to him now just kills me'" [Letter excerpts]. The Daily Mail. August 28, 2018.

"'Having been so very happy makes this harder than if I'd never known love at all'" [Letter excerpts]. The Daily Mail. August 29, 2018.

"Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom" [short story extract]. The Guardian. December 29, 2018: 33-35.

"Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom" [short story extract]. The Wall Street Journal. December 29, 2018: C3.

"Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom". The Hudson Review. Spring 2019: 13-28.

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