sylvia plath

SYLVIA PLATH
THE CRITICAL HERITAGE
Edited by
LINDA WAGNER-MARTIN
London and New York
Contents
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INTRODUCTION
ABBREVIATIONS
NOTE ON THE TEXT
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Meeting Sylvia Plath
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ELINOR KLEIN
JANE BALTZELL KOPP
IRENE V. MORRIS
CHRISTOPHER LEVENSON
ANNE SEXTON
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The Colossus and Other Poems (i960)
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BERNARD BERGONZI, 'The Ransom Note,' Manchester
Guardian, November i960
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7 JOHN WAIN, 'Farewell to the World,' Spectator,
January 1961
8 A. ALVAREZ, 'The Poet and the Poetess,' Observer,
December i960
9 ROY FULLER, review, London Magazine, March 1961
10 A. E. DYSON, review, Critical Quarterly, Summer
1961
11 Unsigned review, Times Literary Supplement, August
1961
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The Colossus and Other Poems (1962)
12 E. LUCAS MYERS, 'The Tranquilized Fifties,' Sewanee
Review, January-March 1962
13 JUDSON JEROME, 'A Poetry Chronicle—Part I,' Antioch Review, Spring 1963
14 RICHARD HOWARD, review, Poetry, March 1963
15 MARK LINENTHAL, 'Sensibility and Reflection from
the Poet's Corner,' San Francisco Sunday Chronicle,
This World, March 1963
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16 NICHOLAS KING, 'Poetry: A Late Summer Roundup,'
New York Herald- Tribune Book Review, August 1962
17 IAN HAMILTON, 'Poetry,' London Magazine, July
1963
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The BellJar (Victoria Lucas, 1963)
18 Unsigned review, 'Under the Skin,' Times Literary
Supplement, January 1963
19 LAURENCE LERNER, 'New Novels,' Listener, January
1963
Ariel (1965)
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'Poetry in Extremis,' Observer, March
1965
Unsigned review, 'Along the Edge,' Times Literary
Supplement, November 1965
M. L. ROSENTHAL, 'Poets of the Dangerous Way,'
Spectator, March 1965
Unsigned review, 'Poems for the Good-Hearted,'
The Times, November 1965
PETER DALE, ' " O Honey Bees Come Build,"' Agenda, Summer 1966
STEPHEN SPENDER, 'Warnings from the Grave,' New
Republic, June 1966
P. N. FURBANK, 'New Poetry, 1 Listener, March 1965,
HUGH KENNER, 'Arts and the Age, On Ariel,'
Triumph, September 1966
JOHN MALCOLM BRINNIN, 'Plath, Jarrell, Kinnell,
Smith,' Partisan Review, Winter 1967
RICHARD TILLINGHAST, 'Worlds of Their Own,'
Southern Review, Spring 1969
PETER DAVISON, 'Inhabited by a Cry: The Last Poetry
of Sylvia Plath,' Atlantic Monthly, August 1966
IRVING FELDMAN, 'The Religion of One,' Book Week,
June 1966
Unsigned review, 'Russian Roulette,' Newsweek,
June 1966
ROBIN SKELTON, review, Massachusetts Review,
Autumn 1965
A. ALVAREZ,
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The Colossus and Other Poems (reissue, 1967, 1968)
34 Unsigned review, 'Chained to the Parish Pump,'
Times Literary Supplement, March 1967
35 M. L. ROSENTHAL, 'Metamorphosis of a Book,'
Spectator, April 1967
37 JAMES TULIP, 'Three Women Poets,' Poetry Australia,
December 1967
The BellJar (Sylvia Plath, reissue, 1966)
37 c. B. cox, 'Editorial,' Critical Quarterly, Autumn
1966
38 STEPHEN WALL, review, Observer, September 1966
The BellJar (Sylvia Plath, New York, 1971)
39 j . D. O'HARA, 'An American Dream Girl,' Washington
Post Book World, April 1971
40 SAUL MALOFF, 'Waiting for the Voice to Crack,'
New Republic, May 1971
41 MASON HARRIS, 'The Bell Jar,1 West Coast Review,
October 1973
42 GEOFFREY WOLFF, 'T/ic Bell Jar,' Newsweek, April
1971
43 MARGARET L. SHOOK, 'Sylvia Plath: The Poet and the
College,' Smith Alumnae Quarterly, April 1972
44 TERESA DE LAURETIS, 'Rebirth in The Bell Jar,'
Women's Studies, 1976
Crossing the Water (1971)
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DOMENICA
PATERNO,
'Poetry,'
Library Journal,
October 1971
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EILEEN M. AIRD,
review, Critical Quarterly, Autumn
1971
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DOUGLAS DUNN,
'Damaged Instruments,' Encounter,
August 1971
48 VICTOR HOWES, 'I am Silver and Exact,' Christian
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Science Monitor, September 1971
BOYERS, 'On Sylvia Plath,' Salmagundi,
Winter 1973
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TERRY EAGLETON, ' N e w Poetry,' Stand,
PETER PORTER, 'Collecting Her Strength,'
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New States-
man, June 1971
52 PAUL WEST, 'Crossing the Water,' Book World (Chicago
Tribune), January 1972
53 VICTOR KRAMER, 'Life-and-Death Dialectics,' Modem
Poetry Studies, 1972
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Winter Trees (1971, 1972)
54 Unsigned review, 'A World in Disintegration,'
Times Literary Supplement, December 1971
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55 LINDA RAY PRATT, ' " T h e Spirit of Blackness is in
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U s . . . , " ' Prairie Schooner, Spring 1973
'Sylvia Plath and the Savage God,'
Spectator, December 1971
JOYCE CAROL OATES, 'Winter Trees,' Library Journal,
November 1972
DAMIAN GRANT, 'Winter Trees,' Critical Quarterly,
Spring 1972
RAYMOND SMITH, 'Late Harvest,' Modem Poetry
Studies, 1972
JAMES FINN COTTER, 'Women Poets: Malign N e g lect?' America, February 1973
INGRID MELANDER, review, Modema Spra'k, 1971
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ROGER SCRUTON,
62 ERIC HOMBERGER,
'The Uncollected Plath,'
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Statesman, September 1972
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63 EILEEN M. AIRD, ' " P o e m for a Birthday" to Three
Women: Development in the Poetry of Sylvia Plath,'
Critical Quarterly, Winter 1979
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Letters Home by Sylvia Plath, Correspondence 1950-1963
(1975)
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ERICA JONG, 'Letters Focus Exquisite Rage of Sylvia
Plath,' Los Angeles Times Book Review, November
1975
65 ANNE TYLER, ' "The Voice Hangs O n , Gay, Tremulous,"' National Observer, January 1976
66 j o BRANS, " T h e Girl W h o Wanted to be G o d , " '
Southwest Review, Summer 1976
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67 MARTHA DUFFY, 'Two Lives,' Time, November 1975
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'Letters Home: Correspondence 1950—
1963,' Ariel, October 1977
69 ROSE KAMEL, ' "Reach Hag Hands and Haul Me In":
Matrophobia in the Letters of Sylvia Plath,' Northwest Review, 1981
CAROL BERE,
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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
71 LORNA SAGE, 'Death and Marriage,' Times Literary
Supplement, October 1977
72 G. s. FRASER, 'Pass to the Centre,' Listener, October
1977
73 MELODY ZAJDEL, 'Apprenticed in a Bible of Dreams:
Sylvia Plath's Short Stories,' Critical Essays on Sylvia
Plath, 1984
The Collected Poems of Sylvia Plath (1981)
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LAURENCE LERNER,
'Sylvia Plath,' Encounter, January
1982
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WILLIAM H. PRITCHARD, 'An Interesting Minor Poet?'
New Republic, December 1981
DAVE SMITH, 'Syliva Plath, the Electric Horse,'
American Poetry Review, January 1982
MICHAEL KIRKHAM, 'Sylvia Plath,' Queen's Quarterly,
Spring 1984
MICHAEL HULSE,
'Formal Bleeding,' Spectator,
November 1981
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MARJORIE PERLOFF, 'Sylvia Plath's Collected Poems,'
Resources for American Literary Study, Autumn 1981
TheJournals of Sylvia Plath, 1950-1962 (1982)
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i n Search of the Shape Within,'
Maclean's Magazine, May 1982
81 LINDA w . WAGNER, 'The Journals of Sylvia Plath,'
Contemporary Literature, Winter 1983
MARNI JACKSON,
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'The Journals of Sylvia Plath,' American Book Review, May-June 1983
83 STEVEN GOULD AXELROD, 'The Second Destruction of
Sylvia Plath,' American Poetry Review, March-April
1985
MIRIAM LEVINE,
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SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
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INDEX
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