The Journals of Sylvia Plath

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And meanwhile you are probably sleeping exhausted in the arms of some brilliant whore, or maybe even the Swiss girl who wants to marry you.” – Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath The Blood Jet Is Poetry". Time. June 10, 1966. Archived from the original on March 10, 2015 . Retrieved July 9, 2010. Book review, Ariel. Thomas, David N. (2008). Fatal Neglect: Who Killed Dylan Thomas?. Bridgend: Seren. ISBN 978-1-85411-480-8. Can’t stop thinking I am just beginning. In 10 years I will be 30 and not ancient and maybe good. Hope. Prospects. Work, though, and I love it. Delivering babies. Maybe even both kinds.” – Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

Alexander, Paul (2003) [1991]. Rough Magic: A Biography of Sylvia Plath. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Da Capo Press. ISBN 0-306-81299-1. Hughes, Frieda (2003). "My Mother". The Book of Mirrors. Archived from the original on May 28, 2012. It seems to me more than ever that I am a victim of introspection. If I have not the power to put myself in the place of other people, but must be continually burrowing inward. I shall never be the magnanimous creative person I wish to be. Yet I am hypnotized by the workings of the individual, alone, and am continually using myself as a specimen.” – Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath Stevenson, Anne (1990) [1989]. Bitter Fame: A Life of Sylvia Plath. London: Penguin. ISBN 0-14-010373-2.Clark, Heather (2011). The Grief of Influence: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199558193. OCLC 718024305. The final section of the journals contains entries from the summer of 1958 through the fall of 1959, when Plath lived in Boston. The last real entry is dated November 15, 1959, from Yaddo, prior to Plath and Hughes’s return to England to await the birth of their first child. The last years of her life are represented by a piece titled “The Inmate,” written between February 27 and March 6, 1961, when Plath was in the hospital having her appendix removed, and by a series of sketches of her Devon neighbors dated February through July, 1962.

Middlebrook, Diane. (2003). Her Husband: Hughes and Plath– a Marriage. New York: Viking. ISBN 0-670-03187-9 Chronicle of Higher Education, June 22, 2001, Carlin Romano, "Martin and Hannah and Sylvia and Ted," p. B21. The second section of The Journals of Sylvia Plath covers the two years Plath spent as a Fulbright Scholar at Cambridge University and her year as a teacher at Smith College, a time of transition and change. By the end of this period, 1955 to 1958, she had committed herself to a life of writing rather than to academia, as well as to marriage. Plath’s infatuation with Ted Hughes was immediate; they married four months after meeting. In her journal, she characterizes him as a panther, a Neptune, a god, taking clear delight in marriage and in performing such duties as typing his poems. While she feels fortunate to have found domestic happiness with her poet husband, she is concerned about losing her writing self in the world of domesticity, and while she wishes to have a child, she wants first to produce a book. In one entry, she worries, prophetically, that she is too bound to Hughes, that if anything happened to him “I would either go mad, or kill myself.” Her capacity for rage is revealed in an entry made on May 19, 1958, which describes her husband walking with a young Smith student when he was supposed to be meeting her. Months later, she was able to link this rage to her feelings of abandonment by her dead father. Gill, Jo (2006). The Cambridge Companion to Sylvia Plath. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-84496-7. I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life.

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Sylvia Plath's Cambridge-era Prose: A Survey". sylviaplathinfo.blogspot.com . Retrieved October 31, 2023. 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. Plath's landscape poetry, which she wrote throughout her life, has been described as "a rich and important area of her work that is often overlooked...some of the best of which was written about the Yorkshire moors". Her September 1961 poem "Wuthering Heights" takes its title from the Emily Brontë novel, but its content and style is Plath's own particular vision of the Pennine landscape. [95] After Otto's death, Aurelia moved her children and her parents to 26 Elmwood Road, Wellesley, Massachusetts, in 1942. [7] Plath commented in "Ocean 1212-W", one of her final works, that her first nine years "sealed themselves off like a ship in a bottle—beautiful, inaccessible, obsolete, a fine, white flying myth". [5] [13] Plath attended Bradford Senior High School (now Wellesley High School) in Wellesley, graduating in 1950. [5] Just after graduating from high school, she had her first national publication in the Christian Science Monitor. [10] College years and depression [ edit ] Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts