Sylvia Plath bibliography
 Plath (1961) | |
| Books↙ | 4 |
|---|---|
| Novels↙ | 1 |
| Plays↙ | 1 |
| Journals↙ | 2 |
| Letters↙ | 1 |
| Periodicals edited↙ | 1 |
| References and footnotes | |
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.
Poems
[edit]Plath published dozens of poems, including:
- "Daddy"
- "Lady Lazarus"
- "Mad Girl's Love Song"
- "The Munich Mannequins"
- "Tulips"
- "Two Lovers and a Beachcomber by the Real Sea"
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. Her early diaries which she started at the age of 11 on 1 January 1944 and wrote till December 1949 remain unpublished. 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