Sylvia Plath: A Biography (31 page)

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Sylvia
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Uroff, M. D. “Sylvia Plath and Confessional Poetry: A Reconsideration,”
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….
Sylvia
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. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press, 1979.

Van Dyne, Susan R. “Double Monologues: Voices in American Women’s Poetry,”
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…. “Fueling the Phoenix Fire: The Manuscripts of Sylvia Plath’s ‘Lady Lazarus,’”
Massachusetts
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Waggoner, Hyatt H.
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…. “Modern American Literature: The Poetics of the Individual Voice,”
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…. “Plath on Napoleon,”
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…. “Plath’s
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…. “Plath’s
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…. “Sylvia Plath’s Specialness in Her Short Stories,” Journal
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BIOGRAPHY OF SYLVIA PLATH, RELEVANT PUBLICATIONS

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

Ames, Lois, “Notes Toward a Biography” in
The
Art
of
Sylvia
Plath
,
A
Symposium
, ed. Charles Newman (reprinted from
Tri
-
Quarterly
). Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Press, 1970, 155-73. Hereafter Newman.

…. “Sylvia Plath: A Biographical Note,”
The
Bell
Jar
. New York: Harper & Row, 1971, 203-16.

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

Campbell, Wendy. “Remembering Sylvia” in Newman, 182-86.

Christiaen, Chris. “Poet on College Time,”
Mademoiselle
, 41 (Aug. 1955), 49, 52, 62.

Davison, Peter.
Half
Remembered
,
A
Personal
History
. New York: Harper & Row, 1973.

Gaebler, Max D. “Sylvia Plath Remembered” (Mar. 14, 1983), in Smith Archive.

Gardner, Philip. “ ‘The Bland Granta’: Sylvia Plath at Cambridge,”
Dalhousie
Review
, 60 (Autumn 1980), 496-507.

Hamilton, Ian.
Robert
Lowell
,
A
Biography
. New York: Random House, 1982.

Hughes, Ted. “Foreword,”
The
Journals
of
Sylvia
Plath
,
1950
-
62
, ed. Frances McCullough and Ted Hughes. New York: Dial Press, 1982.

…. “Introduction,”
The
Collected
Poems
of
Sylvia
Plath
, ed. Ted Hughes. New York: Harper & Row, 1981.

…. “Introduction,”
Johnny Panic
and
the
Bible
of
Dreams
,
Short
Stories
,
Prose
,
and
Diary
Excerpts
. New York: Harper & Row, 1979.

…. “Note,” introducing 10 poems by Plath,
Encounter
, 21 (Oct. 1963), 45.

…. “Notes on the Chronological Order of Sylvia Plath’s Poems,” in Newman, 187-95.

…. “Sylvia Plath,”
Poetry
Book
Society
Bulletin
, 44 (Feb. 1965).

…. “Sylvia Plath and Her Journals,” in
Ariel
Ascending
,
Writings
About
Sylvia
Plath
, ed. Paul Alexander. New. York: Harper & Row, 1984. 152-64.

…. “Sylvia Plath’s
Crossing
the
Water
: Some Reflections,”
Critical
Quarterly
, 13 (Summer 1971), 165-72.

…. “
Winter
Trees
,”
Poetry
Book
Society
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, 70 (Autumn 1971).

Kazin, Alfred.
New
York
Jew
. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1978.

Klein, Elinor. “A Friend Recalls Sylvia Plath,”
Glamour
(Nov. 1966), 168-84.

Kopp, Jane Baltzell. “ ‘Gone, Very Gone Youth’: Sylvia Plath at Cambridge,” in
Sylvia
Plath
:
The
Woman
and
the
Work
, ed. Edward Butscher. New York.

Dodd, Mead, 1977, 61-80. Hereafter Butscher.

Krook, Dorothea. “Recollections of Sylvia Plath,” in Butscher, 49-60.

Lameyer, Gordon. “Letters from Sylvia,”
Smith
Alumnae
Quarterly
, 67 (Feb. 1976), 3-10.

…. “Sylvia at Smith,” in Butscher, 32-41.

…. “Who Was Sylvia? A Memoir of Sylvia Plath,” unpublished.

Middlebrook, Diane. “Housewife into Poet: The Apprenticeship of Anne Sexton,”
New
England
Quarterly
(Dec. 1983), 483-503.

Morris, Irene V. “Sylvia Plath at Newnham—a Tutorial Recollection,”
Newnham
College
Roll
:
Letter
, 1975, 45-47.

Plath, Aurelia Schober.
Letters
Home
by
Sylvia
Plath
,
Correspondence
1950
-
1963
. New York: Harper & Row, 1975. (Introduction and continuity; also different versions of each in Lilly Library Plath collection, unpublished.)

…. “Authors’ Series Talk,” Mar. 16, 1976, Wellesley College Club (in Smith Plath Archive).

…. and Robert Robinson. “Sylvia Plath’s
Letters
Home
: Some Reflections by Her Mother,”
The
Listener
, 95 (Apr. 22, 1976), 515-16.

Robins, Corinne. “Four Young Poets,”
Mademoiselle
, 48 (Jan. 1959), 34-35, 85.

Roche, Clarissa, “Sylvia Plath: Vignettes from England” in Butscher, 81-96.

Rosenstein, Harriet. “Reconsidering Sylvia Plath,”
Ms
., 1 (Sept. 1972), 45-51, 96-99.

Sachar, Neva Nelson. “What’s Going On/People,”
Mademoiselle
(Mar. 1979), 112, 114.

Sexton, Anne. “The Barfly Ought To Sing” in Newman, 174-81.

Shook, Margaret. “Sylvia Plath: The Poet and the College,”
Smith
Alumnae
Quarterly
, 63 (Apr. 1972), 4-9.

Sigmund, Elizabeth. “Sylvia in Devon: 1962” in Butscher, 100-07.

Spivack, Kathleen. “Lear in Boston: Robert Lowell as Teacher and Friend,”
Ironwood
(Spring 1985), 76-92.

…. “Poets and Friends,”
Boston
Globe
Magazine
, Aug. 9, 1981, 10-12, 35-42.

…. “Robert Lowell: A Memoir,”
The
Antioch
Review
, 43 (Spring 1985), 183-93.

….
Robert
Lowell
and
the
Teaching
of
Poetry
,
Boston
/
Cambridge
,
1959
-
77
, unpublished manuscript.

Steiner, Nancy Hunter. A
Closer
Look
at
Ariel
:
A
Memory
of
Sylvia
Plath
, introduction by George Stade. New York: Harper’s Magazine Press, 1973.

Stoianoff, Ellen A. “Sylvia Plath: Three Poems and a Remembrance,”
Mademoiselle
, 73 (Sept. 1971), 160-61.