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SYLVIA PLATH
Scope|Circulating
Books|Critical Sources|Periodicals,
Journals, & Trade Publications|Web Sites
Scope: Sylvia Plath was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1982.
Her poems are very personal in nature and reflect her own personal battle with
depression. Death and suicide are recurrent subjects in her poetry. Her poems
have been described as “remnants of a psyche torn by severely conflicting
forces.” (Magill, Critical Survey of Poetry)
CIRCULATING BOOKS
Books of Sylvia Plath’s works are listed in our on-line catalog under “Plath,
Sylvia,” and under individual titles.
Books written by and about Sylvia Plath have the call number(s)
PS 3556.L27
Some representative books from the circulating collection located upstairs in
the library are:
Annas, Pamela J.
A Disturbance in Mirrors: The Poetry of Sylvia Plath. New York:
Greenwood Press, 1988.
Axelrod, Steven Gould.
Sylvia Plath: The Wound and the Cure of Words. Baltimore:
Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990.
Bassnett, Susan.
Sylvia Plath: An Introduction to the Poetry. New York: Palgrave
Macmillan, 2005.
Butscher, Edward.
Sylvia Plath, Method and Madness. New York: Seabury Press,
1976.
Holbrook, David.
Sylvia Plath: Poetry and Existence. N.J: Athlone Press, 1988.
Macpherson, Pat.
Reflecting on the Bell Jar. New York: Routledge, 1991.
Rose, Jacqueline.
The Haunting of Sylvia Plath. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard
University Press, 1992.
Van Dyne, Susan R.
Revising Life: Sylvia Plath’s Ariel Poems. Chapel Hill:
University of North Carolina Press, 1993.
Wagner, Linda E.
Sylvia Plath, the Critical Heritage. New York: Routledge, 1988.
CRITICAL SOURCES
There are books in the Reference Collection that do not circulate, but pages may
be photocopied. These resources provide a summary or overview of the topic.
The following titles are appropriate to this topic:
PR 502.C85 1992 Critical Survey of Poetry
PS 21.D5 Dictionary of Literary Biography vol. 6 American Novelists Since World
War II second series
PN 771.M3 1991 Major 20th-Century Writers
PERIODICALS, JOURNALS, & TRADE PUBLICATIONS
Click the links for a
list of full text journals available through our
databases in:
WEB SITES
Voice of the Shuttle
http://vos.ucsb.edu
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Updated
02/08/2007
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