Sylvia Plath

by Wagner-Martin,Linda

• ISBN13: 9780415159425
• ISBN10: 0415159423
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-04-03
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Sylvia Plath, 1932-63. American poet and novelist, established her reputation by the courageous and controlled treatment of extreme and painful states of mind. The volume covers the period 1960-1985.

Table of Contents

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS	xiii
INTRODUCTION	1	(24)
ABBREVIATIONS	25	(1)
NOTE ON THE TEXT	26	(1)
Meeting Sylvia Plath
1 ELINOR KLEIN	27	(1)
2 JANE BALTZELL KOPP	28	(1)
3 IRENE V. MORRIS	28	(1)
4 CHRISTOPHER LEVENSON	29	(1)
5 ANNE SEXTON	30	(2)
The Colossus and Other Poems (1960)
6 BERNARD BERGONZI, The Ransom Note,' Manchester Guardian, November 1960	32	(1)
7 JOHN WAIN, 'Farewell to the World,' Spectator, January 1961	33	(1)
8 A. ALVAREZ, 'The Poet and the Poetess,' Observer, December 1960	34	(1)
9 ROY FULLER, review, London Magazine, March 1961	35	(1)
10 A.E. DYSON, review, Critical Quarterly, Summer 1961	36	(5)
11 Unsigned review, Times Literary Supplement, August 1961	41	(1)
The Colossus and Other Poems (1962)
12 E. LUCAS MYERS, 'The Tranquilized Fifties,' Sewanee Review, January—March 1962	42	(2)
13 JUDSON JEROME, 'A Poetry Chronicle—Part I,' Antioch Review, Spring 1963	44	(1)
14 RICHARD HOWARD, review, Poetry, March 1963	45	(2)
15 MARK LINENTHAL, 'Sensibility and Reflection from the Poet's Corner,' San Francisco Sunday Chronicle, This World, March 1963	47	(1)
16 NICHOLAS KING, 'Poetry: A Late Summer Roundup,' New York Herald– Tribune Book Review, August 1962	48	(1)
17 IAN HAMILTON, 'Poetry,' London Magazine, July 1963	48	(4)
The Bell Jar (Victoria Lucas, 1963)
18 Unsigned review, 'Under the Skin,' Times Literary Supplement, January 1963	52	(1)
19 LAURENCE LERNER, 'New Novels,' Listener, January 1963	53	(2)
Ariel (1965)
20 A. ALVAREZ, 'Poetry in Extremis,' Observer, March 1965	55	(3)
21 Unsigned review, 'Along the Edge,' Times Literary Supplement, November 1965	58	(2)
22 M.L. ROSENTHAL, 'Poets of the Dangerous Way,' Spectator, March 1965	60	(2)
23 Unsigned review, 'Poems for the Good-Hearted,' The Times, November 1965	62	(1)
24 PETER DALE, "0 Honey Bees Come Build,"' Agenda, Summer 1966	62	(7)
25 STEPHEN SPENDER, 'Warnings from the Grave,' New Republic, June 1966	69	(4)
26 P.N. FURBANK, 'New Poetry,' Listener, March 1965,	73	(1)
27 HUGH KENNER, 'Arts and the Age, On Ariel,' Triumph, September 1966	74	(4)
28 JOHN MALCOLM BRINNIN, 'Plath, Jarrell, Kinnell, Smith,' Partisan Review, Winter 1967	78	(1)
29 RICHARD TILLINGHAST, 'Worlds of Their Own,' Southern Review, Spring 1969	79	(1)
30 PETER DAVISON, 'Inhabited by a Cry: The Last Poetry of Sylvia Plath,' Atlantic Monthly, August 1966	80	(4)
31 IRVING FELDMAN, The Religion of One,' Book Week, June 1966	84	(4)
32 Unsigned review, 'Russian Roulette,' Newsweek, June 1966	88	(2)
33 ROBIN SKELTON, review, Massachusetts Review, Autumn 1965	90	(2)
The Colossus and Other Poems (reissue, 1967, 1968)
34 Unsigned review, 'Chained to the Parish Pump,' Times Literary Supplement, March 1967	92	(1)
35 M.L. ROSENTHAL, 'Metamorphosis of a Book,' Spectator, April 1967	92	(3)
36 JAMES TULIP, 'Three Women Poets,' Poetry Australia, December 1967	95	(4)
The Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath, reissue, 1966)
37 C.B. COX 'Editorial,' Critical Quarterly, Autumn 1966	99	(1)
38 STEPHEN WALL, review, Observer, September 1966	100	(1)
The Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath, New York, 1971)
39 J.D. O'HARA, 'An American Dream Girl,' Washington Post Book World, April 1971	101	(2)
40 SAUL MALOFF, 'Waiting for the Voice to Crack,' New Republic, May 1971	103	(4)
41 MASON HARRIS, The Bell Jar,' West Coast Review, October 1973	107	(6)
42 GEOFFREY WOLFF, 'The Bell Jar,' Newsweek, April 1971	113	(1)
43 MARGARET L. SHOOK, 'Sylvia Plath: The Poet and the College,' Smith Alumnae Quarterly, April 1972	114	(10)
44 TERESA DE LAURETIS, 'Rebirth in The Bell Jar,' Women's Studies, 1976	124	(11)
Crossing the Water (1971)
45 DOMENICA PATERNO, 'Poetry,' Library Journal, October 1971	135	(1)
46 EILEEN M. AIRD, review, Critical Quarterly, Autumn 1971	136	(3)
47 DOUGLAS DUNN, 'Damaged Instruments,' Encounter, August 1971	139	(3)
48 VICTOR HOWES, 'I am Silver and Exact,' Christian Science Monitor, September 1971	142	(2)
49 ROBERT BOYERS, 'On Sylvia Plath,' Salmagundi, Winter 1973	144	(8)
50 TERRY EAGLETON, 'New Poetry,' Stand, 1971-2	152	(3)
51 PETER PORTER, 'Collecting Her Strength,' New Statesman, June 1971	155	(2)
52 PAUL WEST, 'Crossing the Water,' Book World (Chicago Tribune), January 1972	157	(4)
53 VICTOR KRAMER, 'Life-and-Death Dialectics,' Modern Poetry Studies, 1972	161	(4)
Winter Trees (1971, 1972)
54 Unsigned review, 'A World in Disintegration,' Times Literary Supplement, December 1971	165	(3)
55 LINDA RAY PRATT, "The Spirit of Blackness is in Us...,"' Prairie Schooner, Spring 1973	168	(3)
56 ROGER SCRUTON, 'Sylvia Plath and the Savage God,' Spectator, December 1971	171	(4)
57 JOYCE CAROL OATES, 'Winter Trees,' Library Journal, November 1972	175	(2)
58 DAMIAN GRANT, 'Winter Trees,' Critical Quarterly, Spring 1972	177	(2)
59 RAYMOND SMITH, 'Late Harvest,' Modern Poetry Studies, 1972	179	(3)
60 JAMES FINN COTTER, 'Women Poets: Malign Neglect?' America, February 1973	182	(2)
61 INGRID MELANDER, review, Moderna Sprdk, 1971	184	(3)
62 ERIC HOMBERGER, 'The Uncollected Plath,' New Statesman, September 1972	187	(4)
63 EILEEN M. AIRD, "Poem for a Birthday" to Three Women: Development in the Poetry of Sylvia Plath,' Critical Quarterly, Winter 1979	191	(13)
Letters Home by Sylvia Plath, Correspondence 1950-1963 (1975)
64 ERICA JONG, 'Letters Focus Exquisite Rage of Sylvia Plath,' Los Angeles Times Book Review, November 1975	204	(6)
65 ANNE TYLER, "The Voice Hangs On, Gay, Tremulous,"' National Observer, January 1976	210	(3)
66 JO BRANS, "The Girl Who Wanted to be God,"' Southwest Review, Summer 1976	213	(3)
67 MARTHA DUFFY, 'Two Lives,' Time, November 1975	216	(3)
68 CAROL BERE, 'Letters Home: Correspondence 1950-1963,' Ariel, October 1977	219	(4)
69 ROSE KAMEL, "Reach Hag Hands and Haul Me In": Matrophobia in the Letters of Sylvia Plath,' North-west Review, 1981	223	(11)
Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams: Short Stories, Prose and Diary Excerpts (1977, 1979)
70 DOUGLAS HILL, 'Living and Dying,' Canadian Forum, June 1978	234	(3)
71 LORNA SAGE, 'Death and Marriage,' Times Literary Supplement, October 1977	237	(6)
72 G.S. FRASER, 'Pass to the Centre,' Listener, October 1977	243	(2)
73 MELODY ZAJDEL, 'Apprenticed in a Bible of Dreams: Sylvia Plath's Short Stories,' Critical Essays on Sylvia Plath, 1984	245	(14)
The Collected Poems of Sylvia Plath (1981)
74 LAURENCE LERNER, 'Sylvia Plath,' Encounter, January 1982	259	(3)
75 WILLIAM H. PRITCHARD, 'An Interesting Minor Poet?' New Republic, December 1981	262	(6)
76 DAVE SMITH, 'SOW Plath, the Electric Horse,' American Poetry Review, January 1982	268	(8)
77 MICHAEL KIRKHAM, 'Sylvia Plath,' Queen's Quarterly, Spring 1984	276	(15)
78 MICHAEL HULSE, 'Formal Bleeding,' Spectator, November 1981	291	(2)
79 MARJORIE PERLOFF, 'Sylvia Plath's Collected Poems,' Resources for American Literary Study, Autumn 1981	293	(11)
The Journals of Sylvia Plath, 1950-1962 (1982)
80 MARNI JACKSON, 'In Search of the Shape Within,' Maclean's Magazine, May 1982	304	(2)
81 LINDA W. WAGNER, 'The Journals of Sylvia Plath,' Contemporary Literature, Winter 1983	306	(2)
82 MIRIAM LEVINE, 'The Journals of Sylvia Plath,' American Book Review, May June 1983	308	(5)
83 STEVEN GOULD AXELROD, 'The Second Destruction of Sylvia Plath,' American Poetry Review, March–April 1985	313	(7)
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY	320	(3)
INDEX	323