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Plath's publication history includes a wide variety of periodicals whose audience is markedly different. From the teen-age audience of Seventeen to the elite readers of Poetry, Plath's work reached a diverse audience in her lifetime.

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Periodicals

This gallery shows a selection of covers of periodicals in which Sylvia Plath's poems, stories, and other writings appeared during her lifetime as well as after her death. This gallery can be used in conjuction with the bibliography of periodical publications.


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Periodical Title: Seventeen
Published: And Summer Will Not Come Again [story]
Date: August 1950


Periodical Title: Seventeen
Published: Ode to a Bitten Plum [poem]
Date: November 1950


Periodical Title: Seventeen
Published: Den of Lions [story]
Date: May 1951


Periodical Title: The Princeton Tiger
Published: In Retrospect: A Plea for Moderation [journalism]
Date: May 4, 1951
Co-written with Marcia Brown


Periodical Title: Mademoiselle
Published: Sunday at the Mintons' [story]
Date: August 1952


Periodical Title: Smith Review
Published: Sunday at the Mintons' [story]
Date: Fall 1952


Periodical Title: Seventeen
Published: Twelfth Night [poem]
Date: October 1952


Periodical Title: Seventeen
Published: The Perfect Set-Up [story]
Date: December 1952


Periodical Title: Seventeen
Published: Initiation [story]
Date: January 1953


Periodical Title: Smith Review
Published: Mad Girl's Love Song, To Eva Descending the Stair, and Doomsday [poems]
Date: Spring 1953


Periodical Title: Seventeen
Published: The Suitcases are Packed Again [poem]
Date: March 1953


Periodical Title: Seventeen
Published: Carnival Nocturne [poem]
Date: April 1953


Periodical Title: Mademoiselle
Published: Mad Girl's Love Song [poem]
Date: August 1953


Periodical Title: Harper's Magazine
Published: Doomsday [poem]
Date: May 1954


Periodical Title: Harper's Magazine
Published: To Eva Descending the Stair [poem]
Date: September 1954


Periodical Title: Harper's Magazine
Published: Go Get the Goodly Squab [poem]
Date: November 1954


Periodical Title: The Atlantic
Published: Circus in Three Rings [poem]
Date: August 1955


Periodical Title: Mademoiselle
Published: Two Lovers and a Beachcomber by the Real Sea [poem]
Date: August 1955


Periodical Title: Chequer
Published: Prologue to Spring [poem]
Date: Summer 1956


Periodical Title: The Atlantic
Published: Pursuit [poem]
Date: January 1957


Periodical Title: Granta
Published: The Wishing Box [story]
Date: January 26, 1957


Periodical Title: Poetry
Published: Wreath for a Bridal, Dream with Clam-Digger, Strumpet Song, Metamorphosis, Two Sisters of Persephone, and Epitaph for Fire and Flower [poems]
Date: January1957


Periodical Title: Granta
Published: Mad Girl's Love Song and Soliloquy of the Solipsist [poems]
Date: May 4, 1957


Periodical Title: Gemini
Published: All the Dead Dears [story] and a review of Stones of Troy by C.A. Trypanis [prose]
Date: Summer 1957


Periodical Title: Grecourt Review 1
Published: All the Dead Dears [poem]
Date: November 1957


Periodical Title: The New Yorker
Published: Mussel Hunter at Rock Harbor [poem]
Date: August 9, 1958


Periodical Title: Ladies' Home Journal
Published: Second Winter [poem]
Date: December 1958


Periodical Title: Mademoiselle
Published: The Times are Tidy [poem] and Four Young Poets [interview]
Date: January 1959


Periodical Title: Horn Book Magazine
Published: The Bull of Bendylaw [poem]
Date: April 1959


Periodical Title: Grecourt Review 2
Published: Sculptor [poem]
Date: May 1959


Periodical Title: The New Yorker
Published: A Winter's Tale [poem]
Date: December 12, 1959


Periodical Title: The New Yorker
Published: Man in Black [poem]
Date: April 9, 1960


Periodical Title: The New Yorker
Published: Water Color of Grantchester Meadows [poem]
Date: May 28, 1960


Periodical Title: London Magazine
Published: The Sleepers and Full Fathom Five [poems]
Date: June 1960


Periodical Title: The Atlantic
Published: A Winter Ship [poem]
Date: July 1960


Periodical Title: Harper's Magazine
Published: Mushrooms [poem]
Date: July 1960


Periodical Title: Critical Quarterly Volume 2, Number 2
Published: The Manor Garden, The Beggars, and Blue Moles [poem]
Date: Summer 1960


Periodical Title: The Atlantic
Published: The Manor Garden [poem]
Date: September 1960


Periodical Title: The Hudson Review
Published: Ouija, Electra on Azalea Path, Suicide Off Egg Rock, and Moonrise [poems]
Date: Autumn 1960


Periodical Title: Poetry 1960: An Appetiser Critical Quarterly Poetry Supplement 1
Published: Medallion [poem]
Date: 1960


Periodical Title: The Listener
Published: Candles [poem]
Date: November 17, 1960


Periodical Title: American Poetry Now Critical Quarterly Poetry Supplement 2
Published: Introduction [prose]
Date: 1961
Additional Information: Edited by Sylvia Plath


Periodical Title: Encounter
Published: A Winter Ship [poem]
Date: February 1961


Periodical Title: The Bookseller
Published: Plath re-wrote captions and worked on layout
Date: February 11, 1961


Periodical Title: The Listener
Published: A Life [poem]
Date: May 4, 1961


Periodical Title: Harper's Magazine
Published: You're [poem]
Date: June 1961


Periodical Title: Critical Quarterly Volume 3, Number 2
Published: Private Ground and I am Vertical [poems]
Date: Summer 1961
Additional Information: Also contains a review of The Colossus by A. E. Dyson


Periodical Title: Poetry at the Mermaid
Published: Tulips [poem]
Date: July 16-23, 1961


Periodical Title: The New Yorker
Published: On Deck [poem]
Date: July 22, 1961


Periodical Title: The Atlantic
Published: Words for a Nursery [poem]
Date: August 1961


Periodical Title: The London Magazine
Published: Zoo Keepers Wife, You're, Small Hours [Barren Woman], Parliament Hill Fields, Whitsun, and Leaving Early [poems]
Date: August 1961


Periodical Title: My Weekly
Published: The Perfect Place [story]
Date: October 28, 1961


Periodical Title: Guinness Poetry Award 1960-1961: Winning Poems
Published: Insomniac [poem]
Date: [October 31, 1961]


Periodical Title: English Poetry Now Critical Quarterly Poetry Supplement 3
Published: Parliament Hill Fields [poem]
Date: 1962


Periodical Title: Encounter
Published: The Colossus [poem]
Date: April 1962


Periodical Title: The New Yorker
Published: Tulips [poem]
Date: April 7, 1962


Periodical Title: The New Yorker
Published: Blackberrying [poem]
Date: September 15, 1962


Periodical Title: The Listener
Published: The Surgeon at 2am [poem]
Date: September 20, 1962


Periodical Title: Cheltenham Festival of Literature
Published: Insomniac [poem]
Date: October 1-6, 1962


Periodical Title: Harper's Magazine
Published: Leaving Early [poem]
Date: December 1962


Periodical Title: The Atlantic
Published: The Arrival of the Bee Box and Wintering [poems]
Date: April 1963


Periodical Title: London Magazine
Published: The Bee Meeting, Stings, Cut, Letter in November, The Couriers, Mary's Song, and Years [poems]
Date: April 1963


Periodical Title: Punch
Published: America! America! [prose]
Date: April 3, 1963


Periodical Title: Critical Quarterly Volume 5, Number 1
Published: A Birthday Present [poem]
Date: Spring 1963


Periodical Title: London Magazine
Published: Berck-Plage [poem]
Date: June 1963


Periodical Title: Critical Quarterly Volume 5, Number 2
Published: For a Fatherless Son [poem]
Date: Summer 1963


Periodical Title: Encounter
Published: Death & Co., The Swarm, The Other, Getting There, Lady Lazarus, Little Fugue, Childless Woman, The Jailer, Thalidomide, and Daddy. [poems]
Date: October 1963


Periodical Title: The Review
Published: Daddy, Lady Lazarus, Fever 103°, Ariel, Poppies in October, Nick and the Candlestick, Brasilia, Mary's Song, and Lesbos [poems]
Date: October 1963


Periodical Title: The Atlantic
Published: The Wishing Box [story]
Date: October 1964


Periodical Title: New Poetry 1964 Critical Quarterly Poetry Supplement 5
Published: Daddy, In Plaster, Small Hours [poems]
Date: 1964


Periodical Title: American Poetry 1965 Critical Quarterly Poetry Supplement 6
Published: The Bee Meeting and Lady Lazarus [poems]
Date: 1965


Periodical Title: TriQuarterly
Published: The Death of Myth-Making, Sow, Watercolor for Grantchester Meadows, The Colossus, Mushrooms, Sculptor, In Plaster, Lesbos, Words for a Nursery, Nick and the Candlestick, Stings, Fever 103°, Cut, The Bee Meeting, Death & Co., Daddy, Lady Lazarus, and Words [poems]
Date: Fall 1966


Periodical Title: New Poems 1966 Critical Quarterly Poetry Supplement 7
Published: You're [poem]
Date: 1966


Periodical Title: Critical Quarterly 10
Published: Two Poems [Excerpts from "Three Women"] [poems]
Date: Autumn 1968


Periodical Title: The Atlantic
Published: Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams [story]
Date: September 1968


Periodical Title: Poetry 1970 Critical Quarterly Poetry Supplement 11
Published: Two Campers in Cloud Country [poem]
Date: 1970


Periodical Title: Cosmopolitan
Published: Excerpt from The Bell Jar [prose]
Date: September 1971


Periodical Title: Poetry 1971 Critical Quarterly Poetry Supplement 12
Published: Mirror, Widow, Insomniac, Candles [poems]
Date: 1971


Periodical Title: Ms.
Published: Three Women [poem]
Date: Spring 1972


Periodical Title: Seventeen
Published: Ode to a Bitten Plum [poem]
Date: January 1974


Periodical Title: Bananas
Published: Day of Success [story]
Date: 1975


Periodical Title: Woman's Day
Published: The Bed Book [poem]
Date: October 1976


Periodical Title: Cricket
Published: The Bed Book [poem]
Date: December 1976


Periodical Title: Bananas
Published: Among the Bumblebees [story]
Date: Autumn 1978


Periodical Title: The New Yorker
Published: Unabridged Journals Excerpts [prose]
Date: March 27, 2000