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  The Bell Jar

  by Sylvia Plath

  Esther Greenwood is brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented and successful, but slowly going under — maybe for the last time. In her acclaimed and enduring masterwork, Sylvia Plath brilliantly draws the reader into Esther's breakdown with such intensity that her insanity becomes palpably real, even rational — as accessible an experience as going to the movies. A deep penetration into the darkest and most... (more)
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  Ariel

  by Sylvia Plath

  Upon the publication of her posthumous volume of poetry, "Ariel", in the mid-1960s, Sylvia Plath became a household name. Readers may be surprised to learn that the draft of "Ariel" left behind by Sylvia Plath when she died in 1963 is different from the volume of poetry eventually published to worldwide acclaim. This facsimile edition restores, for the first time, the selection and arrangement of the poems as... (more)
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  Collected Poems

  by Sylvia Plath

  Containing everything that celebrated poet Sylvia Plath wrote after 1956, this is one of the most comprehensive collections of her work. Edited, annotated, and with an introduction by Ted Hughes.
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  Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams

  Short Stories, Prose, and Diary Excerpts

  by Sylvia Plath

  "What I fear most, I think, is the death of the imagination.... If I sit still and don't do anything, the world goes on beating like a slack drum, without meaning. We must be moving, working, making dreams to run toward; the poverty of life without dreams is too horrible to imagine."-- Sylvia Plath, from Notebooks, February 1956 Renowned for her poetry, Sylvia Plath was also a brilliant writer of prose. This... (more)
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  Your Own, Sylvia

  A Verse Portrait of Sylvia Plath

  by Stephanie Hemphill

  On a bleak February day in 1963 a young American poet died by her own hand, and passed into a myth that has since imprinted itself on the hearts and minds of millions. She was and is Sylvia Plath and Your Own , Sylvia is a portrait of her life, told in poems. With photos and an extensive list of facts and sources to round out the reading experience, Your Own, Sylvia is a great curriculum companion to Plath's... (more)
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  Journals of Sylvia Plath, 1950-1962

  by Sylvia Plath

  First U.S. Publication A major literary event--the complete, uncensored journals of Sylvia Plath, published in their entirety for the first time. Sylvia Plath's journals were originally published in 1982 in a heavily abridged version authorized by Plath's husband, Ted Hughes. This new edition is an exact and complete transcription of the diaries Plath kept during the last twelve years of her life. Sixty percent... (more)
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  Her Husband

  Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath--A Marriage

  by Diane Wood Middlebrook

  Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath were husband and wife; they were also two of the most remarkable poets of the twentieth century. In this stunning new account of their marriage, Diane Middlebrook draws on a trove of newly available papers to craft a beautifully written portrait of Hughes as a man, as a poet, and as a husband haunted—and nourished—his entire life by his relationship to Sylvia Plath. ... (more)
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  Letters Home: Correspondence, 1950-1963

  by Sylvia Plath

  Sylvia Plath's correspondence, addressed chiefly to her mother, from her time at Smith College in the early 1950s up to her suicide in London in February 1963. In addition to her capacity for domestic and writerly happiness, these letters also hint at her potential for deep despair.
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  The Bell Jar

  by Sylvia/ McCullough, Frances (FRW) Plath

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  Poetry Speaks

  Hear Great Poets Read Their Work from Tennyson to Plath

  by Elise Paschen

  Poetry Speaks features the work of the most influential writers in modern poetry—written and performed—from 1892 to 1997. This book combines their most significant poems in print with the authors themselves reading their poetry on audio CD. Poets range from Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Walt Whitman, T.S. Eliot and Dorothy Parker to Langston Hughes, Allen Ginsberg, Sylvia Plath and Gwendolyn Brooks. The power... (more)
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  Rough Magic

  A Biography of Sylvia Plath

  by Paul Alexander, Alexander Paul

  Since her infamous suicide at age thirty, Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) has been celebrated for her impeccable and ruthless poetry, which excels at describing the most extreme reaches of human consciousness and passions. The bestselling autobiographical novel The Bell Jar illuminated her life for millions of fans, followed by The Colossus, Ariel , and the Pulitzer-Prize winning Collected Poems . Based on... (more)
• A Journey into the Red Eye: The Poetry of Sylvia Plath-A CritiqueJanice Markey

  

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  A Journey into the Red Eye: The Poetry of Sylvia Plath-A Critique

  by Janice Markey

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  Sylvia Plath

  by Susan Bassnett

  Using a postfeminist, poststructuralist approach, the author offers a new study of Sylvia Plath's life and work that rejects the standard myths of Plath as Doomed Poet and Deprived Woman. Bassnet demonstrates that the many voices and contradictions in Plath's poetry and life negate attempts by critics to achieve a definitive reading of her work.
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  Wintering

  A Novel of Sylvia Plath

  by Kate Moses

  This engrossing début novel depicts Sylvia Plath’s feverish artistic process in the bitter aftermath of her failed marriage to Ted Hughes—the few excruciating yet astoundingly productive weeks in which she wrote Ariel , her defining last collection of poems. In December 1962, shortly before her suicide, Plath moved with her two children to London from the Hughes’s home in Devon.... (more)
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  Sylvia Plath (Open Guides to Literature)

  by Robyn Marsack

  Sylvia Plath's energetic imagination is the focus of this guide. It seeks to place her work in the context of her life and times, without losing sight of the words on the page, the encounter of reader and text. Plath's poetry is usually labelled "confessional": does the label do justice to it? Through close discussion of key poems, Robyn Marsack explores Plath's use of autobiography and myth, of women's experience... (more)
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  Walking Naked

  by Alyssa Brugman

  There are those who are popular. There are those who are outcasts. And there are those who must choose between the two. Megan Tuw has always been popular. As a leader of her high school’s most cliquish group, she’s among the anointed girls who think nothing of ridiculing those who don’t fit in. That includes Perdita Wiguiggan—a classmate Megan and her friends openly refer to as the Freak. But Megan doesn’t know... (more)
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  Winter Trees

  by Sylvia Plath

  The poems in this collection were all written in the last nine months of Sylvia Plath's life, and form part of a group from which the Ariel poems were chosen. Her radio play 'Three Women', also included here, was written slightly earlier, in the transitional period of The Colossus and Ariel.'A book that anyone seriously interested in poetry now must have . . . Sylvia Plath's immense gift is evident throughout.'... (more)
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  Sylvia Plath: A Critical Study

  by Tim Kendall

  A fresh and unique look at the work of one of America's most compelling and enigmatic poets Sylvia Plath was one of the most gifted and innovative poets of the twentieth century, yet serious study of her work has often been hampered by a fierce preoccupation with her life and death. In this new analysis, Tim Kendall seeks to redress the balance in his detailed and dispassionate examination of her poetry.... (more)
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  Selected Poems of Sylvia Plath (York Notes Advanced S.)

  by Sylvia Plath

  This selection of Sylvia Plath's poetry - chosen by Ted Hughes - shows Plath to be a major poet of the 20th century.
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  The Death and Life of Sylvia Plath

  by Ronald Hayman

  Not a conventional biograpy, this book offers an explanation of Sylvia Plath's death in 1963. The author looks back on Plath's life in an attempt to offer an objective account of why she killed herself. It discusses her life with her husband Ted Hughes, who had control of all her copyright works, as she killed herself without making a will. This edition brings the story full circle, as it includes the publication... (more)