Author:Sylvia Plath

Sylvia Plath
(1932–1963)

Sylvia Plath

Works

Poems

• "Admonitions"
• "Aerialist"
• "Aftermath" (1959)
• "Alicante Lullaby" (1956, published 1971)
• "All the Dead Dears" (1957)
• "Amnesiac" (1962)
• "Among the Narcissi" (1962)
• "Apotheosis" (1956)
• "An Appearance" (1962, published 1965)
• "The Applicant" (1962)
• "Apprehensions" (1962, published 1971)
• "April"
• "Aquatic Nocturne"
• "Ariel" (1962)
• "The Arrival of the Bee Box" (1962, published 1971)
• "The Babysitters" (1961)
• "Balloons" (1963)
• "Barren Woman" (1961)
• "Battle-Scene from the Comic Operatic Fantasy The Seafarer" (1958)
• "The Bee Meeting" (1962)
• "The Beekeeper's Daughter" (1959)
• "The Beggars" (1956)
• "Berck-Plage" (1962)
• "A Birthday Present" (1962)
• "Bitter Strawberries"
• "Black Pine Tree in an Orange Light"
• "Black Rook in Rainy Weather" (1956)
• "Blackberrying" (1961)
• "Blue Moles" (1959)
• "Bluebeard"
• "Brasilia" (1962)
• "Bucolics" (1956)
• "The Bull of Bendylaw" (1959)
• "Burning the Letters" (1962)
• "The Burnt-out Spa" (1959)
• "By Candlelight" (1962)
• "Candles" (1960)
• "Channel Crossing" (1956)
• "Child" (1963)
• "Child's Park Stones" (1958)
• "Childless Woman" (1962)
• "Cinderella"
• "Circus in Three Rings"
• "The Colossus" (1959)
• "The Companionable Ills" (1958)
• "Contusion" (1963)
• "Conversation Among the Ruins" (1956)
• "The Courage of Shutting-Up" (1962)
• "The Couriers" (1962)
• "Crossing the Water" (1962)
• "Crystal Gazer" (1956)
• "Cut" (1962)
• "Daddy" (1962)
• "Danse macabre"
• "Dark Wood, Dark Water" (1959)
• "The Dead"
• "Death & Co." (1962)
• "The Death of Myth-Making" (1958)
• "Denouement"
• "Departure" (1956)
• "The Detective" (1962)
• "Dialogue Between Ghost and Priest" (1956)
• "Dialogue En Route"
• "The Disquieting Muses" (1957)
• "Dirge for a Joker"
• "The Dispossessed"
• "Doom of Exiles"
• "Doomsday"
• "The Dream"
• "Dream with Clam-Diggers" (1956)
• "Eavesdropper" (1962)
• "Edge" (1963)
• "Electra on Azalea Path" (1959)
• "Ella Mason and Her Eleven Cats" (1956)
• "Elm" (1962)
• "Epitaph for Fire and Flower" (1956)
• "Epitaph in Three Parts"
• "Event" (1962)
• "The Everlasting Monday" (1957)
• "The Eye-mote" (1959)
• "Fable of the Rhododendron Stealers" (1958)
• "Face Lift" (1961)
• "Family Reunion"
• "Faun" (1956)
• "The Fearful" (1962)
• "Female Author"
• "Fever 103°" (1962)
• "Fiesta Melons" (1956)
• "Finisterre" (1961)
• "Firesong" (1956)
• "For a Fatherless Son" (1962)
• "Frog Autumn" (1958)
• "Full Fathom Five" (1958)
• "Getting There" (1962)
• "The Ghost's Leavetaking" (1958)
• "Gigolo" (1963)
• "The Glutton" (1956)
• "Go get the goodly squab"
• "Goatsucker" (1959)
• "Gold mouths cry"
• "The Goring" (1956)
• "The Great Carbuncle" (1957)
• "Green Rock, Winthrop Bay" (1958)
• "Gulliver" (1962)
• "The Hanging Man" (1960)
• "Hardcastle Crags" (1957)
• "Heavy Women" (1961)
• "The Hermit at Outermost House" (1959)
• "I Am Vertical" (1961)
• "I Want, I Want" (1958)
• "In Midas' Country" (1958)
• "In Plaster" (1961)
• "Incommunicado" (1958)
• "Insolent storm strikes at the skull"
• "Insomniac" (1961)
• "The Jailer" (1962)
• "Jilted"
• "Kindness" (1963)
• "The Lady and the Earthenware Head" (1957)
• "Lady Lazarus" (1962)
• "Lament"
• "Landowners" (1956)
• "Last Words" (1961)
• "Lesbos" (1962)
• "A Lesson in Vengeance" (1957)
• "Letter in November" (1962)
• "Leaving Early" (1960)
• "Letter to a Purist" (1956)
• "A Life" (1960)
• "Little Fugue" (1962)
• "Lorelei" (1958)
• "Love Letter" (1960)
• "Love Is a Parallax"
• "Lyonnesse" (1962)
• "Magi" (1960)
• "Maudlin" (1956)
• "Magnolia Shoals" (1959)
• "Man in Black" (1959)
• "The Manor Garden" (1959)
• "Mary's Song" (1962)
• "Mayflower" (1957)
• "Medallion" (1959)
• "Medusa" (1962)
• "Memoirs of a Spinach-Picker" (1958)
• "Metamorphoses of the Moon"
• "Metaphors" (1959)
• "Midsummer Mobile"
• "Million Dollar Month" (1950)
• "Mirror" (1961)
• "Miss Drake Proceeds to Supper" (1956)
• "Monologue at 3 a.m." (1956)
• "The Moon and the Yew Tree" (1961)
• "Moonrise" (1958)
• "Moonsong at Morning"
• "Morning in the Hospital Solarium"
• "Morning Song" (1961)
• "The Munich Mannequins" (1963)
• "Mushrooms" (1959)
• "Mussel Hunter at Rock Harbor" (1958)
• "Mystic" (1963)
• "Natural History" (1957)
• "The Net-Menders" (1959)
• "Never try to trick me with a kiss"
• "New Year on Dartmoor (1962)
• "Nick and the Candlestick" (1962)
• "The Night Dances" (1962)
• "Night Shift" (1957)
• "Notes to a Neophyte"
• "November Graveyard" (1956)
• "Ode for Ted" (1956)
• "Old Ladies' Home" (1959)
• "On Deck" (1960)
• "On Looking into the Eyes of a Demon Lover"
• "On the Decline of Oracles" (1957)
• "On the Difficulty of Conjuring Up a Dryad" (1957)
• "On the Plethora of Dryads" (1957)
• "The Other" (1962)
• "The Other Two" (1957)
• "Ouija" (1957)
• "Owl" (1958)
• "Paralytic" (1963)
• "Parliament Hill Fields" (1961)
• "Perseus: The Triumph of Wit Over Suffering" (1958)
• "Pheasant" (1962)
• "Poem for a Birthday" (1959)
• "Poems, Potatoes" (1958)
• "Point Shirley" (1959)
• "Polly's Tree" (1959)
• "Poppies in July" (1962)
• "Poppies in October" (1962)
• "The Princess and the Goblins"
• "Private Ground" (1959)
• "Prologue to Spring"
• "Prospect" (1956)
• "Purdah" (1962)
• "Pursuit" (1956)
• "The Queen's Complaint" (1956)
• "The Rabbit Catcher" (1962)
• "The Ravaged Face" (1959)
• "Recantation" (1956)
• "Resolve" (1956)
• "Rhyme" (1956)
• "The Rival" (1961)
• "Sculptor" (1958)
• "A Secret" (1962)
• "Sheep in Fog" (1963)
• "The Shrike" (1956)
• "Sleep in the Mojave Desert" (1960)
• "The Sleepers" (1959)
• "Snakecharmer" (1957)
• "The Snowman on the Moor" (1957)
• "Soliloquy of the Solipsist" (1956)
• "Song for a Revolutionary Love"
• "Song for a Summer's Day" (1956)
• "Sonnet to Satan"
• "Sonnet: To Eva"
• "Sonnet: To Time page"
• "A Sorcerer Bids Farewell to Seem"
• "Southern Sunrise" (1956)
• "Sow" (1957)
• "Spider" (1956)
• "Spinster" (1956)
• "Stars Over the Dordogne" (1961)
• "Stillborn" (1960)
• "Stings" (1962)
• "Stopped Dead" (1962)
• "Street Song" (1956)
• "Strumpet Song" (1956)
• "Suicide off Egg Rock" (1959)
• "Thalidomide" (1962)
• "The Swarm" (1962)
• "The Surgeon at 2 a.m." (1961)
• "Tale of a Tub" (1956)
• "Temper of Time"
• "Terminal"
• "The Thin People" (1957)
• "The Times Are Tidy" (1958)
• "Tinker Jack and the Tidy Wives" (1956)
• "To a Jilted Lover"
• "To Eva Descending the Stair"
• "Totem" (1963)
• "Touch-and-Go"
• "The Tour" (1962)
• "The Trial of Man"
• "Trio of Love Songs"
• "Tulips" (1961)
• "Two Campers in Cloud Country" (1960)
• "Two Lovers and a Beachcomber by the Real Sea" (1955)
• "Two Sisters of Persephone" (1956)
• "Two Views of a Cadaver Room" (1959)
• "Two Views of Withens" (1957)
• "Vanity Fair" (1956)
• "Virgin in a Tree" (1958)
• "Waking in Winter" (1960)
• "Watercolor of Grantchester Meadows" (1959)
• "Whiteness I Remember" (1958)
• "Whitsun" (1961)
• "Widow" (1961)
• "Winter Landscape, with Rooks" (1956)
• "A Winter Ship" (1959)
• "A Winter's Tale" (1958)
• "Winter Trees" (1962)
• "Wintering" (1962)
• "Words" (1963)
• "Words for a Nursery" (1957)
• "Words heard, by accident, over the phone" (1962)
• "Wreath for a Bridal" (1956)
• "Wuthering Heights" (1961)
• "Yaddo: The Grand Manor" (1959)
• "Yadwigha, on a Red Couch, Among Lilies" (1958)
• "Years" (1962)
• "You're" (1960)
• "Zoo Keeper's Wife" (1961)

Children's books

• The Bed Book (1976)
• The It-Doesn't-Matter-Suit (1996)
• Collected Children's Stories (2001)
• Mrs. Cherry's Kitchen (2001)

Stories

• "A Day in June" (1952)
• "Above the Oxbow" (1958)
• "All the Dead Dears" (1957–58)
• "Among the Bumblebees" (early 1950s)
• "The Daughters of Blossom Street" (1959)
• "The Day Mr. Prescott Died" (1956)
• "Day of Success" (1960)
• "The Fifteen-Dollar Eagle" (1959)
• "The Fifty-Ninth Bear" (1959)
• "The Green Rock" (1949)
• "In the Mountains" (1954)
• "Initiation" (1952)
• "Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams" (1958)
• "Mothers" (1962)
• "The Shadow" (1959)
• "Stone Boy with Dolphin" (1957–58)
• "Sunday at the Mintons'" (1952)
• "Superman and Paula Brown's New Snowsuit" (1955)
• "Sweet Pie and the Gutter Men" (1959)
• "That Widow Mangada" (1956)
• "Tongues of Stone" (1956)
• "The Wishing Box" (1956)

Novels

• The Bell Jar (1963), under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas

Collected editions

Plath has several limited edition collections, with her significant compilations being:

• 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 and prose, 1977)
• The Collected Poems (TCP) (1981)
• Selected Poems (SP) (1985)
• Plath: Poems (PP) (1998)

Others

• Book review of The Stones of Troy by C. A. Trypanis (1957)
• Three Women: A Monologue for Three Voices (1957) play published in 1962
• Letters Home: Correspondence 1950–1963 (1975)
• The Journals of Sylvia Plath (1982)
• "The Magic Mirror" (1989), Plath's Smith College senior thesis
• The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath, edited by Karen V. Kukil (2000)

Works about Plath

• A. Ghandeharion, F. Bozorgian, and M. R. G. Sabbagh: "Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar - A Mirror of American Fifties" (start transcription)
• Laura de la Parra Fernández: "'We Are All Mad Here' - Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar as a Political Novel" (2017) (start transcription)
• Subrata Chandra Mozumder: "Love, Sex and the Body in The Bell Jar and My Story - A Feminist Reading" (2017) (start transcription)
• Mutiara Salsabila: "Women Stereotypes in The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (2022) (start transcription)
• María Laura Arce Álvarez: "Revisiting Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar as a feminist response to McCarthyism" (2024) (start transcription)