plath, sylvia

Presents an close analysis of twentieth-century poet Sylvia Plath that disputes the poet's image as being obsessed with death and argues that her body of work represents a mythic biography that incorporates rebirth and transformation.

A collection of illustrated letters, schoolbook sketches, teenage diaries, portraits, paintings, and photographs from Sylvia Plath's childhood and teenage years.

Jillian Becker chronicles the brief time she spent with Sylvia Plath during the winter of 1963, the last months of the poet's life.

Chronicles the life of poet Sylvia Plath, drawing from interviews with her mother and extensive archival research to discuss Plath's mental health, her father's early death, her battles with depression, and her volatile marriage to poet Ted Hughes.

Discusses the influence, historical context, and critical reception of Sylvia Plath's Bell Jar.

A biography of the troubled woman whose literary achievements were cut short by her suicide at age thirty, interspersed with examples of her poetry.

Offers a critical introduction and discussion of the life and work of American author Sylvia Plath, examining biographies of the writer, looking at her journals, analyzing her fiction and poetry, and discussing the selection and control of posthumous publications.

Collects critical essays on Sylvia Plath's "The Bell Jar" including selections by Iris Jamahil Dunkle, Sally Bayley, Maria Farland, and others; and includes a chronology of the life of the author.