Bibliography of Works about Sylvia Plath


Sylvia Plath is one of the most written about authors of the 20th century. This bibliography of works about Plath illustrates how much interest there is in her life and works. Although her life is often the subject of much attention, critical analyses of her writing far outnumber her biographies. To date, there has been one authorized biography of Sylvia Plath: Bitter Fame by Anne Stevenson.



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

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

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

Alexander, Paul. Ariel Ascending: Writings About Sylvia Plath. New York: Harper & Row, 1985.

Alexander, Paul. Rough Magic: A Biography of Sylvia Plath. Cambridge, Mass.: Da Capo Press, 1999.

Alexander, Paul. Rough Magic: A Biography of Sylvia Plath. Cambridge, Mass.: Da Capo Press, 2003.

Alvarez, A. The Savage God: A Study of Suicide. New York: Random House, 1972.

Annas, Pamela J. A Disturbance in Mirrors: The Poetry of Sylvia Plath. Contributions in women's studies, no. 89. New York: Greenwood Press, 1988.

Axelrod, Steven Gould. Sylvia Plath: The Wound and the Cure of Words. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990.

Badia, Janet. Sylvia Plath and the Mythology of Women Readers. Amherst: University Of Massachusetts Press, 2011.

Bahmany, Leila Rahimi.Mirrors of Entrapment and Emancipation: Forugh Farrokhzad and Sylvia Plath. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2015

Bassnett, Susan. Sylvia Plath: An Introduction to the Poetry. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.

Bayley, Sally and Tracy Brain (eds.). Representing Sylva Plath. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2011.

Becker, Jillian. Giving Up: The Last Days of Sylvia Plath. London: Ferrington, 2002.

Becker, Jillian. Giving Up: The Last Days of Sylvia Plath. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2003.

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

Birkle, Carmen. 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. München: W. Fink, 1996.

Bloom, Harold. Sylvia Plath. Modern Critical Views. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1989.

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

Bloom, Harold. Sylvia Plath. Bloom's Modern Critical Views. New York: Bloom's Literary Criticism, 2007.

Bloom, Harold. Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 2009.

Blosser, Silvianne. A Poetics on Edge: The Poetry and Prose of Sylvia Plath: A Study of Sylvia Plath's Poetic and Poetological Developments. Bern: Peter Lang, 2001.

Brain, Tracy. The Other Sylvia Plath. Longman Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature. Harlow, England: Longman, 2001.

Brain, Tracy (ed.). Sylvia Plath in Context. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019.

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

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

Britzolakis, Christina. Sylvia Plath and the Theatre of Mourning. Oxford English Monographs. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1999.

Broe, Mary Lynn. Protean Poetic: The Poetry of Sylvia Plath. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1980.

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

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

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

Bryfonski, Dedria. Depression in Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar. Farmington Hills, MI: Greenhaven Press, 2012.

Buckley, W. K. (ed.) Critical Insights: Sylvia Plath. Ipswich, Mass.: Salem Press, 2013.

Bundtzen, Lynda K. Plath's Incarnations: Woman and the Creative Process. Women and culture series. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1983.

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

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

Butler, C. S. Poetry and the Computer: Some Quantitative Aspects of the Style of Sylvia Plath. London: The British Academy, 1981.

Butscher, Edward. Sylvia Plath: Method and Madness. New York: Seabury Press, 1976.

Butscher, Edward. Sylvia Plath: The Woman and the Work. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1977.

Butscher, Edward. Sylvia Plath: Method and Madness. Tucson, Ariz: Schaffner Press, 2003.

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

Christodoulides, Nephie. Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking: Motherhood in Sylvia Plath's Work. Costerus, new ser., v. 152. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2005.

Ciobanu, Elena. Sylvia Plath's Poetry: The Metamorphosis of the Poetic Self. Iasi, Romania: Casa Edtoriala Demiurg, 2009.

Clark, Heather. The Grief of Influence: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010.

Clark, Heather. Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath. London: Jonathan Cape, 2020.

Clark, Heather. Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath. New York: Knopf, 2020.

Conarroe, Joel. 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, 1994.

Connell, Elaine. Sylvia Plath: Killing the Angel in the House. Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire: Pennine Pens, 1993.

Connors, Kathleen, and Sally Bayley. Eye Rhymes: Sylvia Plath's Art of the Visual. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.

Crowley, Kim. Bloom's How to Write About Sylvia Plath. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 2011.

Crowther, Gail and Elizabeth Sigmund. Sylvia Plath in Devon: A Year's Turning. Stroud, England: Fonthill Media, 2014.

Crowther, Gail. The Haunted Reader and Sylvia Plath. Stroud, England: Fonthill Media, 2017.

Crowther, Gail and Peter K. Steinberg. These Ghostly Archives: The Unearthing of Sylvia Plath. Stroud, England: Fonthill Media, 2017.

Crowther, Gail. Three-Martini Afternoons at the Ritz: The Rebellion of Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2021.

Curry, Renée R. White Women Writing White H.D., Elizabeth Bishop, Sylvia Plath, and Whiteness. Contributions in women's studies, no. 175. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press, 2000.

Davison, Peter. The Fading Smile: Poets in Boston, 1955-1960 from Robert Frost to Robert Lowell to Sylvia Plath. New York: Knopf, 1994.

Decker, Sharon D. "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, 1978.

Demjen, Zsofia. Sylvia Plath and the Language of Affective States: Written Discourse and the Experience of Depression. London: Bloomsbury, 2015

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

Draskau, Jennifer. 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, 1991.

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Egeland, Marianne. Claiming Sylvia Plath: The Poet As Exemplary Figure. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2013.

Enniss, Stephen, and Karen V. Kukil. "No Other Appetite" Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes, and the Blood Jet of Poetry. New York: Grolier Club, 2005.

Ferretter, Luke. Sylvia Plath's Fiction: A Critical Study. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2010.

Forbes, Deborah, and Sylvia Plath. The Bell Jar: Sylvia Plath. Sparknotes. New York: Spark Pub, 2002.

Gekoski, R. A. Nabokov's Butterfly & Other Stories of Great Authors and Rare Books. New York: Carroll & Graf, 2004.

Gekoski, R. A. Tolkien's Gown and Other Stories of Great Authors and Rare Books. London: Constable, 2004.

Gentry, Deborah S. The Art of Dying: Suicide in the Works of Kate Chopin and Sylvia Plath. American university studies, vol. 56. New York: P. Lang, 1998.

Gill, Jo. The Cambridge Companion to Sylvia Plath. Cambridge Companions to Literature. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2006.

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

Goodspeed-Chadwick, Julie. Reclaiming Assia Wevill: Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes, and the Literary Imagination. Baton Rouge, LA: LSU Press, 2019.

Goodspeed-Chadwick, Julie and Peter K. Steinberg (eds.) The Collected Writings of Assia Wevill. Baton Rouge, LA: LSU Press, 2021.

Gordon-Bramer, Julia. Fixed Stars Govern a Life: Decoding Sylvia Plath. Nacogdoches, Tex.: Stephen F. Austin State University Press, 2015.

Gosmann, Uta. Poetic Memory: Sylvia Plath, Susan Howe, Ellen Hinsey, Louise Glück. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2011.

Grisafi, Patricia. Breaking Down Plath. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2022.

Haberkamp, Frederike. Sylvia Plath: The Poetics of Beekeeping. Salzburg studies in English literature, 192. Salzburg: Salzburg University, 1997.

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

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

Hamilton, Ian. Keepers of the Flame: Literary Estates and the Rise of Biography from Shakespeare to Plath. Boston: Faber and Faber, 1994.

Hargrove, Nancy Duvall. The Journey Toward Ariel: Sylvia Plath's Poems of 1956-1959. Lund Studies in English, 85. Lund, Sweden: Lund University Press, 1994.

Harrison, DeSales. 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, 2005.

Haslam, Dave. My Second Home: Sylvia Plath in Paris, 1956. Manchester, Eng.: Confingo, 2020.

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

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

Hawthorn, Jeremy. Multiple Personality and the Disintegration of Literary Character from Oliver Goldsmith to Sylvia Plath. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1983.

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

Hayman, Ronald. The Death and Life of Sylvia Plath. Stroud: Sutton, 2003.

Hedberg, Johannes. Poets of Our Time: English Poetry from Yeats to Sylvia Plath. Engelskt kursbibliotek. Stockholm: Almquist & Wiksell, 1970.

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

Helle, Anita Plath. The Unraveling Archive: Essays on Sylvia Plath. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2007.

Helle, Anita, Amanda Golden, and Maeve O'Brien. The Bloomsbury Handbook to Sylvia Plath. New York: Bloomsbury, 2022.

Hemphill, Stephanie. Your Own, Sylvia: A Verse Portrait of Sylvia Plath. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2007.

Holbrook, David. Sylvia Plath: Poetry and Existence. London: Athlone Press, 1976.

Homberger, Eric. A Chronological Checklist of the Periodical Publications of Sylvia Plath. American Arts Pamphlet, no. 1. Exeter: University of Exeter (American Arts Documentation Centre), 1970.

Hughes, Ted, and Christopher Reid. Letters of Ted Hughes. London: Faber and Faber, 2007.

Hughes, Ted, and Christopher Reid. Letters of Ted Hughes. London: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, 2008.

Hughes, Ted, and William Scammell. Winter Pollen: Occasional Prose. New York: Picador USA, 1995.

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Inness, Jeanne. The Bell Jar Notes. Lincoln, Neb: Cliff's Notes, 1984.

Jaidka, Manju. Confession and Beyond: The Poetry of Sylvia Plath. Chandigarh, India: Arun Pub. House, 1992.

Jha, Pashupati. Sylvia Plath: The Fear and Fury of Her Muse. New Delhi: Creative Publishers, 1991.

Joseph, Annamma. Feminism and the Modern American Poetry with Focus on Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton and Adrienne Rich. New Delhi: Prestige, 1996.

Kendall, Tim. Sylvia Plath: A Critical Study. London: Faber and Faber, 2001.

Kirk, Connie Ann. Sylvia Plath: A Biography. Greenwood biographies. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press, 2004.

Kirk, Connie Ann. Sylvia Plath: A Biography. Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 2009.

Kirsch, Adam. 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, 2005.

Koren, Yehuda, and Eilat Negev. A Lover of Unreason: The Life and Tragic Death of Assia Wevill. London: Robson Books, 2006.

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

Koren, Yehuda, and Eilat Negev. Lover of unreason: Assia Wevill, Sylvia Plath's Rival and Ted Hughes's Doomed Love. Cambridge, Mass.: Da Capo Press, 2007.

Kraler-Bergmann, Doris. Sylvia Plath's Lyrical Responses to Works of Art: A Portrait of the Artist(s). Saarbrücken, Germany : VDM Verlag, 2008.

Kroll, Judith. Chapters in a Mythology: The Poetry of Sylvia Plath. New York: Harper & Row, 1976.

Kroll, Judith. Chapters in a Mythology: The Poetry of Sylvia Plath. Stroud: Sutton, 2007.

Kumar, Virendra. Sylvia Plath: The poetry of Self. New Delhi: Radha Publications, 1988.

Kyle, Barry, and Sylvia Plath. Sylvia Plath: A Dramatic Portrait. London: Faber, 1976.

Kyle, Barry, and Sylvia Plath. Sylvia Plath: A Dramatic Portrait. New York: Harper & Row, 1977.

Lane, Gary. Sylvia Plath: New Views on the Poetry. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1979.

Lane, Gary, and Maria Stevens. Sylvia Plath: A Bibliography. The Scarecrow Author Bibliographies, no. 36. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1978.

Lehrer, Sylvia. The Dialectics of Art and Life: A Portrait of Sylvia Plath as Woman and Poet. Salzburg studies in English literature, 71. Salzburg, Austria: Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Universtät Salzburg, 1985.

Levy, Patricia, and Tony Buzan. A Guide to Poems of Sylvia Plath. Teach Yourself Literature Guides. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1999.

Lim, Sandra. 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, 1997.

Lindahl-Raittila, Iris. From Victim of the 'Feminine Mystique' to Heroine of Feminist Deconstruction Auto/Biographical Images of Sylvia Plath 1963-2001. Åbo: Åbo Akademis Förlag, 2002.

Lindberg-Seyersted, Brita. Sylvia Plath: Studies in her Poetry and her Personality. Novus Studies in Literature, 3. Oslo: Novus Press, 2002.

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

Macpherson, Pat. Reflecting on The Bell Jar. London: Routledge, 1991.

Majumdar, Keya. Sylvia Plath: The Complete Poet. New Delhi: Prestige Books, 2002.

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

Markey, Janice. A New Tradition?: The Poetry of Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, and Adrienne Rich, a Study of Feminism and Poetry. Frankfurt am Main: P. Lang, 1985.

Markey, Janice. A Journey into the Red Eye: The Poetry of Sylvia Plath, a Critique. London: Women's Press, 1993.

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

Matovich, Richard M., and Sylvia Plath. A Concordance to The collected poems of Sylvia Plath. Garland Reference Library of the Humanities, vol. 618. New York: Garland Pub, 1986.

McCann, Janet (ed.). Critical Insights: The Bell Jar. Pasadena, Calif.: Salem Press, 2011.

Melander, Ingrid. The Poetry of Sylvia Plath: A Study of Themes. Stockholm: Almquist & Wiksell, 1972.

Meyering, Sheryl L. Sylvia Plath: A Reference Guide, 1973-1988. A Reference Guide to Literature. Boston, Mass: G.K. Hall, 1990.

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

Miller, Ellen. Releasing Philosophy, Thinking Art: A Phenomenological Study of Sylvia Plath's Poetry. Aurora, Colo: Davies Group, Publishers, 2009.

Mitchell, Paul. Sylvia Plath The Poetry of Negativity. [Valè€ncia]: Publicacions de la Universitat de Valè€ncia, 2011.

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

Moses, Kate. Wintering: A Novel of Sylvia Plath. New York: Anchor Books, 2003.

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

Myers, Lucas. Crow Steered Bergs Appeared: A Memoir of Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath. Sewanee, Tenn: Proctor's Hall Press, 2001.

Myers, Lucas. An Essential Self: Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath, A Memoir. Nottingham, England: Five Leaves Publications, 2011.

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Narbeshuber, Lisa. Confessing Cultures: Politics and the Self in the Poetry of Sylvia Plath. Victoria, B.C.: ELS Editions, 2009.

Neumann, Stepanka. Sylvia Plath's Ambivalent Depictions of the Female Identity Poetry. Hamburg: Kovač, 2009.

Newman, Charles. The Art of Sylvia Plath: A Symposium. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1970.

Newman, Charles. The Art of Sylvia Plath: A Symposium. London: Faber and Faber, 1970.

Nicholl, Charles, and Andrew Motion. Interrupted Lives in Literature. London: National Portrait Gallery, 2004.

Norris, Pamela. Words of Love: Passionate Women from Heloise to Sylvia Plath. London: HarperPress, 2006.

Northouse, Cameron, and Thomas P. Walsh. Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton: A Reference Guide. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1974.

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

Orr, Peter. The Poet Speaks: Interviews with Contemporary Poets Conducted by Hilary Morrish, Peter Orr, John Press and Ian Scott-Kilvert. London: Routledge & K. Paul, 1966.

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

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

Peterson-Hilleque, Victoria. How to Analyze the Works of Sylvia Plath: Library Edition. Essential Library, 2012.

Phillips, Robert S. The Confessional Poets. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1973.

Plath, Sylvia. The Growth of a Poet Sylvia Plath. The Master Poets Collection. Thousand Oaks, CA: Monterey Home Video, 1997.

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

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

Plath, Sylvia, Aurelia Schober Plath, Richard J. Larschan, and Elizabeth Wilda. Poets of New England. Episode #109, Electry-Fying, Sylvia Plath and the Myth of the Omnipresent/Absent Father. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2000.

Pomeroy, Marnie. Sylvia Plath. Greenwich Exchange Literary Series. London: Greenwich Exchange, 2006.

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

Ramakrsnan, I. Vi. Crisis and Confession: Studies in the Poetry of Theodore Roethke, Robert Lowell, and Sylvia Plath. Delhi: Chanakya Publications, 1988.

Raymond, Claire. The Posthumous Voice in Women's Writing from Mary Shelley to Sylvia Plath. Aldershot, England: Ashgate, 2006.

Reiff, Raychel Haugrud. Sylvia Plath: The Bell Jar and Poems. New York: Marshall Cavendish Benchmark, 2008.

Richardson, Susan. Virginia Woolf and Sylvia Plath: Two of Me Now: A Poetic Drama. The Bloomsbury heritage series, 25. London: Cecil Woolf, 2000.

Rollyson, Carl. American Isis: The Life and Art of Sylvia Plath. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2013.

Rollyson, Carl. The Last Days of Sylvia Plath. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 2020.

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

Rosenblatt, Jon. Sylvia Plath: The Poetry of Initiation. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1979.

Rowland, Antony. Holocaust Poetry: Awkward Poetics in the Work of Sylvia Plath, Geoffrey Hill, Tony Harrison and Ted Hughes. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2005.

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

Ryan-Bryant, Jennifer D.. Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, and Writing Between Them: Turning the Table. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2022.

Saldívar, Toni. Sylvia Plath: Confessing the Fictive Self. Writing about women, vol. 3. New York: Peter Lang, 1992.

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

Sambrook, Hana, and Sylvia Plath. Sylvia Plath: Selected Works. Longman literature guides. London: Longman, 1990.

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

Schmalfuss, Juliane. Psychological Symbolism in the Works of Virginia Woolf and Sylvia Plath. Marburg: Tectum-Verlag, 2008.

Simpson, Louis Aston Marantz. A Revolution in Taste: Studies of Dylan Thomas, Allen Ginsberg, Sylvia Plath, and Robert Lowell. New York: MacMillan, 1978.

Singh, Mina Surjit. Six Women Poets: A Cross-Cultural Study: Emily Dickinson, Sarojini Naidu, Sylvia Plath, Kamala Das Surayya, Adrienne Rich, Mamta Kalia. New Delhi: Prestige Books, 2003.

Spivack, Kathleen. With Robert Lowell and His Circle: Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, Elizabeth Bishop, Stanley Kunitz & Others. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2012.

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

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

Steiner, Nancy Hunter. A Closer Look at Ariel: A Memory of Sylvia Plath. New York: Harper's Magazine Press: v

Stevenson, Anne. Bitter Fame: A Life of Sylvia Plath. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1989.

Stevenson, Anne. Bitter Fame: A Life of Sylvia Plath. Boston: Houghton Mifflin (Mariner Books), 1998.

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

Swiontkowski, Gale. Imagining Incest: Sexton, Plath, Rich, and Olds on Life with Daddy. Selinsgrove, [Pa.]: Susquehanna University Press, 2003.

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Tabor, Stephen. Sylvia Plath: An Analytical Bibliography. Westport, Conn: Meckler Pub. Corp, 1987.

Thomas, Trevor. Sylvia Plath: Last Encounters. Bedford, England: T. Thomas, 1989.

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

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Living in Print: The Legacy of Sylvia Plath: An Exhibition of Selections from the James R. and Mary M. Patton Collection, Rare Book Collection, Wilson Library, October 1-December 31, 1997. Chapel Hill, N.C.: Academic Affairs Library, University of North Carolina, 1997.

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

Vendler, Helen Hennessy. Voices & Visions: The Poet in America. New York: Random House, 1987.

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

Vendler, Helen Hennessy. Last Looks, Last Books: Stevens, Plath, Lowell, Bishop, Merrill. Princeston: Princeton University Press, 2003.

Voices & Visions. Sylvia Plath. Voices and Visions. New York: Mystic Fire Audio, 1988.

Wagner, Erica. Ariel's Gift: A Commentary on Birthday Letters by Ted Hughes. London: Faber and Faber, 2000.

Wagner, Erica. Ariel's Gift: Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath and the Story of the Birthday Letters. New York: W.W. Norton, 2001.

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

Wagner-Martin, Linda. Sylvia Plath: A Biography. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1987.

Wagner-Martin, Linda. Sylvia Plath: A Biography. London: Chatto & Windus, 1988.

Wagner-Martin, Linda. Sylvia Plath: The Critical Heritage. The Critical Heritage Series. London: Routledge, 1988.

Wagner-Martin, Linda. The Bell jar: A Novel of the Fifties. Twayne's Masterwork Studies, no. 98. New York: Twayne, 1992.

Wagner-Martin, Linda. Sylvia Plath: A Literary Life. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: MacMillan, 1999.

Wagner-Martin, Linda. Sylvia Plath: A Literary Life. Second Edition. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: MacMillan, 2003.

Walder, Dennis. Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath. Arts, a Third Level Course: Twentieth Century Poetry, Unit 29. Milton Keynes: Open University Press, 1976.

Warren, Rebecca. Sylvia Plath Selected Poems. York notes. Harlow: Longman/York Press, 2001.

Wilson, Andrew. Mad Girl's Love Song: Sylvia Plath and Life Before Ted. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2013.

Winder, Elizabeth. Pain, Parties, Work: Sylvia Plath in New York, Summer 1953. New York: HarperCollins, 2013.

Wisker, Gina. Sylvia Plath: A Beginner's Guide. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2001.

Wood, David John. A Critical Study of the Birth Imagery of Sylvia Plath, American Poet, 1932-1963. Lewiston: E. Mellen Press, 1992.

Wootten, William. The Alvarez Generation: Thom Gunn, Geoffrey Hill, Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, and Peter Porter. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2015

Wurst, Gayle. Voice and Vision: The Poetry of Sylvia Plath. Travaux des universités suisses, no 4. Genève: Slatkine, 1999.

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