Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) - Bibliography - Articles and Dissertations

On The Bell Jar

• Bonds, Diane S.: The Separative Self in Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar
  
  • "Women's Studies", Vol. 18, No. 1, May, 1990, pp. 49-64.
    
• De Lauretis, Teresa: Rebirth in THE BELL JAR
  
  • Women's Studies 3 (1975)173-183.
    
• Ellmann, Mary: The Bell Jar: An American Girlhood
  
  • in "The Art of Sylvia Plath", ed. Charles Newman (Bloomington, IN: Indiana Univ. Press, 1970, pp.221-226)
    
• Hoogland, Renee C.: (Sub)Textual Configurations: Sexual Ambivalences in Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar
  keywords: Plath, S. - Feminism - Poets - Poetry - Homosexuality Sexuality - Adolescence
  
  • in Journal of Narrative and Life History (3.2-3 (1993), pp. 179-196)
    
• Hughes, Ted: On Sylvia Plath
  
  • in Raritan: A Quarterly Review (Fall 1994, vol. 14, no.2, pp. 1-10)
    
• Lameyer, Gordon: The Double in Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar
  
  • in Sylvia Plath: The Woman and the Work, ed. Edward Butscher (New York: Dood, Mead, 1977, 143-165)
    (Lameyer was at one time Sylvia's boyfriend. He later became a literary scholar)
• Maloff, Saul: Waiting for the Voice to Crack; The Bell Jar, by Sylvia Plath
  a review
  
  • in The New Republic (May 8, 1971, pp. 33-35)
    
  
  

On Plath's Poetry and Prose

• Aird, Eileen: 'Poem for a Birthday' to 'Three Women': Development in the Poetry of Sylvia Plath
  
  • "Critical Quarterly", Vol. 21, No. 4, 1979, pp. 63-72.
    
• Alvarez, A.: A Poet and Her Myths
  
  • New York Review of Books, 28 September 1989
    
• Annas, Pamela J.: The Self in the World: The Social Context of Sylvia Plath's Late Poems
  
  • "Critical Quarterly", Vol. 21, No. 4, 1979, pp. 63-72.
    
• Barnard, Caroline King: God's lioness : the poetry of Sylvia Plath
  
  • Brown University, Ph.D. 1973
    
• Berman, Jeffrey: Sylvia Plath and the Art of Dying: Sylvia Plath (1932-1963)
  
  • University of Hartford Studies in Literature 10 (1978): 137-155.
    
• Boyers, Robert: Sylvia Plath: The Trepanned Veteran
  
  • Centennial Review 13 (1969): 138-153.
    
• Broe, Mary Lynn: Recovering the Complex Self: Sylvia Plath's Beeline
  
  • Centennial Review 24 (Winter 1980): 1-24.
    
• Claire, William F.: That Rare, Random Descent: The Poetry and Pathos of Sylvia Plath
  
  • Antioch Review 26 (Winter 1966): 522-560.
    
• Cleverdon, Douglas: On Three Women
  
  • in Newman, The Art of Sylvia Plath, Indiana Univ. Press, 1970
    
• Davison, Peter: Inhabited by a Cry: The Last Poetry of Sylvia Plath
  
  • Atlantic (August 1966): 76-77.
    
• Dickie, Margaret:Sylvia Plath on Motherhood
  
  • in The Midwest Quarterly, XV (Autumn 1973, pp. 70-90)
    
• Dickie, Margaret:Sylvia Plath's Women
  
  • in Concerning Poetry, VII (Spring 1974, pp. 45-56)
    
• Dickie, Margaret:Sylvia Plath's 'Tulips'
  
  • in Paunch, 42-43 (December 1975, 90-96)
    
• Dickie, Margaret:Sylvia Plath and Confessional Poetry: A Reconsideration
  
  • in The Iowa Review, VIII (Winter 1977, 104-115)
    
• Dobbs, Jeannine: 'Viciousness in the Kitchen': Sylvia Plath's Domestic Poetry
  
  • Modern Language Studies 7, Vol. 7, No. 2, 1977, pp. 11-25.
    
• Ferrier, Carole: The Beekeeper's apprentice
  
  • in Lane, Sylvia Plath: New Viws on the Poetry, (1979)
    
• Folsom, Jack: Death and Rebirth in Sylvia Plath's Berck-Plage
  
  • in Journal of Modern Literature, XVII:4 (1991), pp. 521-535
    
• The Monster in Plath's 'Mirror'
  
  • "Papers on Language and Literature", Vol. 108, No. 5, October, 1993, pp. 152-69.
    
• Gilbert, Sandra: In Yeats' House: The Death and Resurrection of Sylvia Plath
  
  • in Linda Wagner's Critical Essays, pp. 204-222. (see above)
    
• Gordon, Jan B.: 'Who is Sylvia?' The Art of Sylvia Plath
  
  • Modern Poetry Studies 1 (1970):pp. 6-34.
    
• Hardy, Barbara: The Poetry of Sylvia Plath
  
  • Women Reading Women's Writing, ed.Sue Roe
    (Brighton, Eng.: Harvester; 1987, pp. 207-225)
    
• Heaney, Seamus: The indefatigable hoof-taps
  
  • The Times Literary Supplement, February 1988, pp. 5-11.
    
• Hughes, Ted: Notes on the Chronological Order of Sylvia Plath's Poems
  
  • in Newman, The Art of Sylvia Plath, Indiana Univ. Press, 1970
    
• Kloss, Robert J.: Further Reflections on Plath's Mirror
  
  • University of Hartford Studies in Literature 14 (1982): pp. 11-22.
    
• Lehrer, Sylvia: The Dialectics of Art and Life: A Portrait of Sylvia Plath as Woman and Poet
  
  • Salzburg (Austria): Univ. Salzburg, Inst. f. Anglistik & Amerikanistik 1985
    
• Lester, D. and R. Terry: Emotional Self-Repair and Poetry
  keywords: Poetry - Death - Reader-Response - Plath, S. - Sexton, A. - Suicide - Catharsis Poets
  
  • in Omega--Journal of Death and Dying (28.1 (1994), pp. 79-84)
    
• Lim, Sandra: Double-consciousness and the protean self in Sylvia Plath's Ariel
  Stanford University essay in humanities ; no. 41
  
  • Stanford, Calif. : Humanities Honors Program, Stanford University, 1997, 118 p.
    
• Lindberg-Seyersted, Britta (Univ. of Oslo): Sylvia Plath's Psychic Landscapes
  
  • in English Studies, 1990, 6, pp. 509-522
    
• Markey, Janice:A new tradition? : the poetry of Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, and Adrienne Rich, a study of feminism and poetry
  keywords: American Poetry - Plath,S. - Sexton,A - Rich, A. - Feminism in literature - Women authors - History and criticism
  Series: European University Studies. Series XIV, Anglo-Saxon language and literature, 0721-3387 ; vol. 133 Europäische Hochschulschriften. Reihe XIV, Angelsächsische Sprache und Literatur ; Bd. 133
  
  • Frankfurt am Main ; New York : P. Lang, c1985, 239 p.
    
• Martin, Wendy: God's Lioness--Sylvia Plath, Her Prose and Poetry
  
  • Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal 1 (1973):191-198.
    
• Meissner, William: The Rise of the Angel: Life Through Death in the Poetry of Sylvia Plath
  
  • Massachusetts Studies in English 3 (Fall 1971): 34-39.
    
• Melander, Ingrid: The poetry of Sylvia Plath; a study of themes
  series: Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis. Gothenburg studies in English, 25
  
  • Stockholm, Almquist & Wiksell [1972], 119 p.
    
  • Distributed in the U.S.A. by Humanities Press, New York
    
• Minagucchi, Kiseko: Plath and Welty as Mutual Mirror
  keywords: Welty, E. Mirroring Suicide Mason,B.A. Plath, S. Biographical approach Southern literature Women writers
  
  • in Bulletin of the Association of Private Junior Colleges in Tokyo (1993)
    
• Minagucchi, Kiseko: The Dis/Uniting of Female Southern Writers
  keywords: Plath, S. - Mason, B. A. - Hill, R. - Identity - Woolf, Virginia - Southern literature - Women writers
  
  • in Bulletin of Teikyo Women's Junior College (1994)
    
• Oates, Joyce Carol: The Death Throes of Romanticism: The Poems of Sylvia Plath
  
  • Southern Review 9 (July 1973): 501-522.
    find the online article at this Joyce Carol Oates page
    
• Orr, Peter: An interview with Sylvia Plath, 30th October, 1962
  
  • from: The Poet Speaks - Interviews with Contemporary Poets, Routledge and Kegan Paul, London, 1966
    read the transcript of this interview
    
• Payne, Susanne S.: Sylvia Plath's Ariel poems: the persona's search for control and security
  
  • MA Thesis, Mississippi State University 1991, 65 p.
    
• Perloff, Marjorie: Angst and Animism in the Poetry of Sylvia Plath
  
  • in Wagner, Critical Essays on Sylvia Plath (1984)
    
• Sanazaro, Leonard: The Transfiguring Self: Sylvia Plath, a Reconsideration
  
  • Centennial Review 27 (Winter 1983): 62-74.
    
• Serlin, Ilene: The Anne Sexton Complex
  keywords: Sexton, A. - Woolf, V. - Plath, S. - Women writers - Suicide - Creativity
  
  • in Humanistic Psychologist (21.3 (1993), pp. 325-340)
    
• Stevenson, Anne: Sylvia Plath, Elizabeth Bishop and the Romantic Topography of the Mind
  
  • in Poetry Review (1989 Summer v79(2) pp. 10-14)
    
• Talbot, Mary Patricia: The poetry of Sylvia Plath : a critical revision
  
  • Brown University, Ph.D. 1988
    
• van Dyne, Susan: More Terrible Than She Ever Was: The Manuscripts of Sylvia Plath's Bee Poems
  
  • in Sylvia Plath: Stings, Northampton: Smith College and the Estate of Sylvia Plath
    
  • reprinted in Wagner,Critical Essays on Sylvia Plath (1984)
    
• van Dyne, Susan: Fuelling The Phoenix Fire: The Manuscripts of Sylvia Plath's 'Lady Lazarus'
  
  • Massachusetts Review, 24, Winter 1983
    

Comparison with other Writers

• Cam, Heather: 'Daddy': Sylvia Plath's Debt to Anne Sexton
  
  • American Literature 59.3 (Oct. 1987): 429-432.
    
• Lester, D. and R. Terry: Emotional Self-Repair and Poetry
  keywords: Poetry - Death - Reader-response - Plath,S. - Sexton,A. - Suicide - Catharsis - Poets
  
  • in Omega--Journal of Death and Dying (28.1 (1994), pp. 79-84)
    
• Markey, Janice:A new tradition? : the poetry of Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, and Adrienne Rich, a study of feminism and poetry
  keywords: American Poetry - Plath,S. - Sexton,A - Rich, A. - Feminism in literature - Women authors - History and criticism
  Series: European University Studies. Series XIV, Anglo-Saxon language and literature, 0721-3387 ; vol. 133 Europäische Hochschulschriften. Reihe XIV, Angelsächsische Sprache und Literatur ; Bd. 133
  
  • Frankfurt am Main ; New York : P. Lang, c1985, 239 p.
    
• Minagucchi, Kiseko: The Dis/Uniting of Female Southern Writers
  keywords: Plath, S. - Mason,B.A. - Hill, R. - Identity - Woolf, Virginia - Southern literature - Women writers
  
  • in Bulletin of Teikyo Women's Junior College (1994)
    
• Serlin, Ilene: The Anne Sexton Complex
  keywords: Sexton,A. - Woolf,V. - Plath,S. - Women writers - Suicide - Creativity
  
  • in Humanistic Psychologist (21.3 (1993), pp. 325-340)
    
• Stevenson, Anne: Sylvia Plath, Elizabeth Bishop and the Romantic Topography of the Mind
  
  • in Poetry Review (1989 Summer v79(2) pp. 10-14)
    
  
  

Please note that this list has not been updated substancially since 2000 as I no longer have the time and resources. Many articles can now be found through library search catalogues and other online resources. See also my list of articles that are available online Last Modified: 19 Feb 2004 Anja Beckmann