Note: This page is divided into the following divisions:
- criticism
- student papers and essays
- newspaper articles and reviews

Criticism

• Eileen Aird - Poem for a Birthday’ to ‘Three Women’: Development in the Poetry of Sylvia Plath
  from “Critical Quarterly”, Vol. 21, No. 4, 1979, pp. 63-72.
• Pamela J. Annas: The Self in the World: The Social Context of Sylvia Plath’s Late Poems
  from “Women’s Studies”, Vol. 7, Nos. 1-2, 1980, pp. 171-83.
• Fred Beake - Plathetic Fallacies
  This essay discusses the influence other writers like Roethke or Williams may have had on Plath’s poetry, it discusses her contemporaries and looks at her poetry, arguing that her poems were not personal in a strict sense. Rather, Plath used personae and masks and transformed personal experience into something of more general interest.
  This article is discussed by Anne Skea, a Ted Hughes specialist, in her Consideration of Fred Beake’s ‘Plathectic Fallacies’.
• Diane S. Bonds: Jar
  from “Women’s Studies”, Vol. 18, No. 1, May, 1990, pp. 49-64.
  In this essay, Bonds reconsiders feminist critical analysis of The Bell Jar, drawing attention to Esther Greenwood’s recovery in the novel. According to Bonds, Esther fails to establish an autonomous, or separative, self, and ultimately resorts to “culturally-ingrained stereotypes of women.”

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