Sylvia Plath on the Web

General pages
Poetry collections
Online articles
Related websites
Non-English Sylvia Plath Pages

General pages

• Sylvia Plath Forum
  hosted by Elaine Connell, author of Sylvia Plath: Killing the Angel in the House
  This site is highly recommended! Use the search feature to find out what has been discussed before.
  
• A Celebration of Sylvia Plath
  by Peter Steinberg. This page features one of the biggest collections of photo material related to Sylvia Plath, including many covers of her books, photographs of the places where she has lived or which were of importance to her. Peter has also written an online biography of Sylvia Plath, and he has a page on The Bell Jar as well as a big collection of poems online.
  
• Modern American Poetry: Sylvia Plath biographical and critical articles (on Ariel, Daddy, Tulips, Lady Lazarus, the Bee poems and other poems), "A Multimedia Companion to Anthology of Modern American Poetry"
  a very good resource with excerpts of biographies and criticism on the most popular poems.
• A very good and well-rounded introductory article on Plath written by literary scholar Steven Axelrod can be found at The Literary Encyclopedia.

Poetry collections

• an alphabetical list of 230 Plath poems
  
• chronological order of the same 230 poems, also includes Juvenilia
  
• AUDIO: Lady Lazarus - listen to Plath reading this poem (BBC website)

Related Links

• transcript of an interview with Sylvia Plath conducted by Peter Orr on 30th October 1962.
  
• EXHIBITION: Plath Symposium, website for the "Eye Rhymes: Visual Art & Manuscripts of Sylvia Plath" Exhibition and the "Sylvia Plath 70th Year Commemoration and Literary Symposium" held at Indiana University this fall
• Ego, Blood and Spirit, The Excruciating Birth of the Autonomous Ego in the poetry of Sylvia Plath and other writers. A (chaotically organised) page by Jack Freed
  Plath devotees may be interested in his Western esoteric approach to her poetry. Initiation knowledge sheds much light on some of the more mysterious aspects of her poetry and her poetrys' juxtaposition with the ideas of the Austrian Rudolf Steiner provides a window into which we may glimpse the future evolution of human consciousness.
• Plath natal horoscope
• Ted Hughes a brilliant site dedicated to Ted Hughes which is maintained by Claas Kazzer
  
• New York University page with annotations of Plath's poetry

Non-English Sylvia Plath Pages

• A German bibliography (local page) - this page lists all books with translations into German (the links to Lyrik Online no longer work because of copyright problems).
  
• A French Sylvia Plath Homepage (Club des Poetes) with a short biography and an article plus a poem in French (Celibataire)
  
• brief Portuguese page on Plath by Arlindo Correia
  
• Italian biography of Plath
  
• very nice Italian site on Plath, with bio, photos, info and some poems in Italian
  
• See an article in Spanish Sylvia Plath: Más allá de los mitos by Lisa Liibbe Lara on Sylvia Plath. (local page)
  
• Bibliography of translations (local page - please let me know about translations into your language!)
  
  
  

Last Modified: 2 May 2007 Anja Beckmann