Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) was an American author and poet. Plath is primarily known for her poetry, but earned her greatest reputation for her semi-autobiographical novel The Bell Jar, published pseudonymously weeks before her death.
 Plath (1961) | |
| Books↙ | 4 |
|---|---|
| Novels↙ | 1 |
| Plays↙ | 1 |
| Journals↙ | 2 |
| Letters↙ | 1 |
| Periodicals edited↙ | 1 |
| References and footnotes | |
Poems edit
Plath published dozens of poems, including:
Children's books and novel edit
Plath published only one book in her lifetime—the novel The Bell Jar—but several collected editions of her poetry, short stories, letters, and children's books were published posthumously.
- The Bell Jar (1963), under the pseudonym "Victoria Lucas"
- The Bed Book (children's book – 1976)
- The It-Doesn't-Matter-Suit (children's book – 1996)
- Collected Children's Stories (children's book – 2001)
- Mrs. Cherry's Kitchen (children's book – 2001)
Letters and journal edit
Several of Plath's letters and her personal journal were published after her death. Most of her manuscripts are held in the Cambridge and Indiana University libraries.
- Letters Home: Correspondence 1950–1963 (1975)
- The Journals of Sylvia Plath (1982)
- The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath, edited by Karen V. Kukil (2000)
Collected editions edit
There are several limited-edition collections of Plath's work. Significant compilations include:
- The Colossus and Other Poems (TC) (1960 – American and British editions are different)
- Ariel (A) (1965 – American and British editions are different)
- Uncollected Poems (UC) (1965)
- Fiesta Melons (FM) (1971)
- Crossing the Water (CtW) (1971 – American and British editions are different)
- Winter Trees (WT) (1972 – American and British editions are different)
- Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams (JP) (short stories, 1977)
- The Collected Poems (TCP) (1981)
- Selected Poems (SP) (1985)
- Plath: Poems (PP) (1998)
Others edit
- The Magic Mirror (1989), Plath's Smith College senior thesis
- Three Women: A Monologue for Three Voices (1968) play
- Drawings
- Interviews
- The Poet Speaks edited by Peter Orr, published by Barnes and Noble in New York City (1966), pp.167–172
- Editing – American Poetry Now: A Selection of the Best Poems by Modern American Writers, appended to Critical Quarterly Poetry Supplement, number 2 in 1961
- Sylvia Plath Reads, Harper Audio 2000[1]
Plath Reads Plath – 1975, Released as a gramophone record by Credo Records and on Compact Disc by Harper Audio in 2000
- The Art of Sylvia Plath 1970:
- Dialogue en Route c. 1951
- Miss Drake Proceeds to Supper 1956
- On the Plethora of Dryads 1956
- Epitaph for Fire and Flower 1956
- Battle-Scene from the Comic Operatic Fantasy The Seafarer 1957
- Words for a Nursery 1957
- Mushrooms 1959
- In Plaster 1961
- An Appearance 1962
- Lesbos 1962
- Purdah 1962
- Mystic 1963
- Excerpt from a radio play Three Women 1962
- OCEAN 1212-W 1962
- Thalidomide
- Pen drawings by Sylvia Plath
Full list of publications edit
| Title | Date | Collected | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| "Mad Girl's Love Song" | August 1953 | Poem published in the women's magazine Mademoiselle | |
| "Above the Oxbow" | May 4, 1959 | Poem published in The Christian Science Monitor | |
| "Admonition" | April 1959 | CG | Poem published in Smith Review, Spring 1959 |
| "Aerialist" | February 7, 1969 | Poem published in Cambridge Review | |
| "Aftermath" | October 1959 | TC | Poem published in Arts in Society, Fall 1959 |
| "Alicante Lullaby" | 1971 | Poem published in Crystal Gazer | |
| "All the Dead Dears" | November 1957 | TC | Poem published in Grecourt Review |
| "Amnesiac" | August 3, 1963 | WT (US) | Poem published in The New Yorker |
| "Among the Narcissi" | August 3, 1963 | CtW (UK), WT (US) | Poem published in The New Yorker |
| "Apotheosis" | January 1956 | Poem published in The Lyric, Winter 1956 | |
| "An Appearance" | 1965 | UP, AoSP, CtW (UK), WT (US) | Poem published in Times Literary Supplement, January 20, 1966 |
| "The Applicant" | January 1963 | A | Poem published in London Magazine |
| "Apprehensions" | March 6, 1971 | CtW (UK), WT (US) | Poem published in The New Yorker |
| Ariel | 1965 | Published by Faber and Faber in London and Harper and Row in New York City in 1966 | |
| "The Arrival of the Bee Box" | March 6, 1971 | CtW (UK), WT (US) | Poem published in The New Yorker |
| The Bed Book | 1976 | Children's book published by Faber and Faber in London with illustrations by Quentin Blake and New York City by Harper and Row with illustrations by Emily Arnold McCully | |
| The Bell Jar | 1963 | Published by William Heineman, Ltd. in London under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas, Faber and Faber in London in 1966, and Harper and Row in New York City in 1971, with a biographical note by Lois Ames and eight drawings by Plath | |
| Child | 1971 | Published by Rougemont Press as a limited edition of 300 copies | |
| The Collected Poems of Sylvia Plath | 1981 | Published by Harper and Row in New York City in 1971, edited by Ted Hughes | |
| The Colossus and Other Poems | 1960 | Published by William Heineman, Ltd. in London, Alfred A. Knopf in New York City in 1962, and Faber and Faber in 1976 | |
| Crossing the Water | 1971 | Published by Faber and Faber in London and Harper and Row in New York City | |
| Crystal Gazer and Other Poems | 1971 | Published by Rainbow Press in London as a limited edition of 400 copies | |
| "A Day in June" | 1952 | JP (UK) | Published as a book by Embers Handpress in 1981 as a limited edition of 160 |
| Fiesta Melons | 1971 | Published by Rougemont Press as a limited edition of 150 copies, with an introduction by Ted Hughes and 11 drawings by Plath | |
| "The Green Rock" | 1949 | JP (UK) | Published as a book by Embers Handpress in 1982 as a limited edition of 160 |
| Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams | 1977 | Published by Faber and Faber in London | |
| The Journals of Sylvia Plath | 1982 | Published by Dial Press in New York City, edited by Frances McCullough | |
| Letters Home by Sylvia Plath, Correspondence 1950–1962 | 1975 | Published by Harper and Row in New York City, edited by Aurelia Schober Plath | |
| Lyonesse | 1971 | Published by Rainbow Press in London as a limited edition of 400 copies | |
| "Million Dollar Month" | 1950 | Poem written in the early 1950s, published as a book by The Sceptre Press as a limited edition of 150 copies | |
| Plath Reads Plath | 1975 | Released as a gramophone record by Credo Records | |
| Pursuit | 1973 | Published by Rainbow Press in London as a limited edition of 100 copies | |
| "Stings" | April 1963 | A | Poem published in London Magazine, later printed in Tri-Quarterly in Fall 1966, and published in Naked Poetry in 1969. Revised and published in Pursuit in 1973. Published as a book with facsimile manuscript by The Pioneer Valley Printing Company as a limited edition of 150 copies in 1982. |
| The Stones of Troy by C. A. Trypanis | August 1957 | Book review published in Gemini, Summer 1957 | |
| Sylvia Plath Reads | 2000 | Released as a Compact Disc by Harper Audio | |
| Three Women: A Monologue for Three Voices | June 1957 | WT | Published by Turret Books in London as a limited edition of 180 copies, first broadcast on BBC Third Programme on August 19, 1962 |
| The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath, 1950–1962 | 2000 | Published by Random House in New York City, edited by Karen V. Kukil | |
| Uncollected Poems | 1965 | Published by Turret Books in London as a limited edition of 150 copies | |
| A Winter Ship | 1960 | AWS, TC | Poem published in The Atlantic Monthly, July 1960 and Encounter, February 1961 |
| A Winter Ship | 1960 | Published by Tragara Press as a limited edition | |
| Winter Trees | 1971 | Published by Faber and Faber in London and Harper and Row in New York City in 1972, contents between the two editions differ | |
| Wreath for a Bridal | 1970 | Published by The Sceptre Press as a limited edition of 100 copies |
References edit
- Lane, Gary; Maria, Stevens (1978), Sylvia Plath: A Bibliography, The Scarecrow Author Bibliographies, vol. 36, Metuchen, New Jersey, United States: Scarecrow Press, ISBN 0-8108-1117-0
- Wagner-Martin, Linda (2004-10-03), Sylvia Plath: A Literary Life, Literary Lives (second ed.), Palgrave Macmillan, ISBN 1-4039-1653-5
- Barnard, Caroline King (1978), Sylvia Plath, Twayne's United States Authors, MacMillan Publishing Company, pp. 121–128, ISBN 0-8057-7219-7
- Brain, Tracy (2001), The Other Sylvia Plath, Longman Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature, Singapore: Longman Publishing Group, pp. 118–120, ISBN 0-582-32730-X
- Plath, Sylvia (2007-04-05), Ariel: The Restored Edition, Faber and Faber, ISBN 978-0-571-23609-1