Works Inspired by Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath has been the subject of numerous poems, plays, musical, fictional, and other creations - or representations. The following list of creations (or re-creations) of Sylvia Plath was compiled largely by Annika J. Hagström; with additional information by others.
Novels & Short Fiction
Altschul, Andrew Foster. 2008. Lady Lazarus. Orlando: Harcourt.
Anderson, Robert. 2005. Little Fugue. New York: Ballantine Books.
Craig, Amanda. 2002. In a Dark Wood. New York: Nan A. Talese.
Fromberg Schaeffer, Susan. 2006. Poison. New York: W.W. Norton.
Johnston, Christopher. 2003. Sylvia Plath Was Murdered by the Murder of Crows in My Head. Imprint Books.
Medlar, Grace. 2009. The Lost Papers of Sylvia Plath. CreateSpace.com.
Moses, Kate. 2003. Wintering. London: Hodder and Stoughton.
Rendell, Joanne. 2009. Crossing Washington Square. NAL Trade.
Skugge, Linda. 2006. Ett Tal Till Min Systers Bröllop. Stockholm: Piratförlaget.
Tennant, Emma. 2001. Sylvia and Ted: A Novel. New York: Henry Holt.
Tennant, Emma. 2001. The Ballad of Sylvia and Ted. Edinburgh: Mainstream Pub.
Weldon, Fay. 1971. Down Among the Women. Harmondsworth: Penguin.
Wormser, Baron. 2008. "Sylvia Plath, b 1932." In The Poetry Life: Ten Stories. Fort Lee, NJ: Cavankerry Press Ltd.
Plays
Alexander, Paul. 2003. Edge.
Anthony, Edward. 2007. Wish I had a Sylvia Plath.
Brooker, Blake. 2008. Sylvia Plath Must Not Die.
Freed, Amy. 1999. The Psychic Life of Savages. Plays from Woolly Mammoth. Eds. Robert Alexander and Michael Kyrioglou. New York: Broadway Play Publishing.
Haentjens, Brigitte. 2004. La Cloche de Verre. Theatre de Quat'Sous.
Jelinek, Elfriede. 2002. Prinzessinnendramen. (Der Tod und das Mädchen I-V).
Kyle, Barry. 1976. Sylvia Plath: A Dramatic Portrait. London: Faber and Faber.
Leiman Goldemberg, Rose. 1979. Letters Home. New York: Samuel French.
Lindley, Peter. 2008. Golden Lads and Lasses Must.
Richardson, Susan. 2000. Virginia Woolf and Sylvia Plath: Two of Me Now: A Poetic Drama. The Bloomsbury heritage series, 25. London: Cecil Woolf.
Tammany, Susan. 1999. Hecate's Cave.
Thomason, Jane. 1989. Sylvia. London.
Washington Theatre Club, Janet Gardner, Kayla Kazahn Zalk, and Etain O'Malley. 1973. A Difficult Borning: A Dramatization Compiled from the Prose and Poetry of Sylvia Plath. Washington, D.C.: s.n.
Yasrebi, Christa. Sylvia Plath.
Poetry
Ackerman, Diane. 1985. "On looking into Sylvia Plath's copy of Goethe's Faust." Parnassus: 271.
Ackerman, Diane, and Enid Mark. 1996. About Sylvia. Wallingford, Pa: ELM Press.
Alexander, Elizabeth. 2001. "The Female Seer Will Burn Upon This Pyre". Antebellum Dream Book. Saint Paul, Minn.: Graywolf Press.
Alvarez, Ivy. 2008. "She Loves the Glassy Blue." Court Green 5. 150-1.
Auchter, Amanda. 2008. "With Love from Betty Grable." Court Green 5. 132.
Averbach, Leanne. 2008. "Darwin is Despondent." Court Green 5. 162.
Bang, Mary Jo. 2008. "Departure" and "Reminds Me Ramona." Court Green 5. 205.
Barboza, Meg. 2008. "The Whole World's Encyclopedia." Court Green 5. 177.
Beatty, Jan. 2008. "A Necessary Waist: Plath Grows Thinner Reading Stein." Court Green 5. 197.
Beaumont, Jeanne Marie. 2008. from Sylvia Suite "Charmes for Ariel", "Channeling Sylvia", and "[Exit Corpse]." Court Green 5. 141-4.
Berg, Catherine. 2007. "Linden Flowers." Virginia Woolf Miscellany. 25.
Bernstein, Charles. "Sad Boy's Sad Boy." Poetry. June 2007.
Berryman, John. 1968. "Dream Song 172." His Toy, His Dream, His Rest. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Bowman, Catherine. The Plath Cabinet. New York: Four Way Books.
Brock, Geoffrey. 2008. "Daddy: 1933." Poetry. June: 236.
Brock, James. 2008. "3 Dresses: Rachel, 2006." Court Green 5. 172-3.
Broder, Michael. 2008. "Confession." Court Green 5. 171.
Brown, Lee Ann. 2008. "Arrow." Court Green 5. 182-3.
Buckley, W.K. 2002. Sylvia's Bells. Concord, Calif.: Small Poetry Press.
Burge, Sara. 2008. "Ghost Story." Court Green 5. 155.
Cederstrom, Eleanor Ross. "For Sylvia Plath." Smith Alumnae Quarterly 47:2. February 1976: 10.
Davis, Peter. 2008. "Sylvia Plath." Court Green 5. 170.
Davison, Peter. 1974. "The Heroine." Walking the Boundaries. New York, Atheneum.
Davison, Peter. 2000. "Sorry (In memory of Sylvia Plath)." Breathing Room. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
DiPrima, Diane. 2008. "Death Wish Pantoum." Court Green 5. 181.
Dlugos, Tim. 2008. "The Third Sex." Court Green 5. 140.
Doizelet, Sylvie. 1996. La Terre Des Morts Est Lointaine (Sylvia Plath). Paris: Gallimard.
Elmer, Sherry. "Mourning Sylvia's Death." Wisconsin Academy Review. Spring 2000: 27.
Emanuel, Lynn. 1992. "Spite, A Homage to Sylvia Plath." The Dig. University of Illinois Press.
Ewing, Robyn. 2008. "Letter to Ms. Plath From a Future Stranger Lady in Line at the Post Office Writing This." Court Green 5. 167-9.
Fisher, Roy. 2005. "At the Grave of Asa Benveniste." The Long and the Short of It: Poems 1995-2005. Northumberland: Bloodaxe.
Flynn, Leontia. 2008. Drives. Forthcoming.
Frezza, Luciana. 1986. "Requiem for Sylvia Plath." In The Defiant Muse: Italian Feminist Poems from the Middle Ages to the Present.
Gerstler, Amy. 2008. "Sivvy." Court Green 5. 131.
Grider, Nicholas. 2008. "Forms of Opiates for Sylvia Plath." Court Green 5. 176.
Hadas, Rachel. "Daughters and Others."
Harris, Judith. 2008. "To the Granite Muses Who Have Gone Too Deep." Court Green 5. 147-8.
Hayes, Terrance. 2008. "The Blue Sylvia." Court Green 5. 133.
Hemphill, Stephanie. 2007. Your Own, Sylvia: A Verse Portrait of Sylvia Plath. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
Hughes, Frieda. 1998. "Readers." Wooroloo. New York: HarperCollins, 61.
Hughes, Frieda. 2006. Forty-Five. New York: HarperCollins.
Hughes, Ted. 1998. Birthday Letters. London: Faber and Faber.
Hughes, Ted. 1998. Howls & Whispers. Rockport, Me.: Gehenna Press.
Hurdle, Crystal. 2003. After Ted and Sylvia. Vancouver: Ronsdale Press.
James, Susen. 2008. "Sunday" and "No Matter Which Channel I Tune to the Music is the Same." Court Green 5. 160-161.
Jones, Patricia Spears. 2008. "Sylvia Plath, Office Worker." Court Green 5. 166.
Jong, Erica. 1971. "In Sylvia Plath Country." Fruits and Vegetables. New York: Holt, Reinhart, and Winston.
Keeney, Scott. 2008. "Without Which No Art." Court Green 5. 222.
Klein, Jim. 2008. "Daddy." Court Green 5. 175.
Koertge, Ron. 2008. "Another Conversation Among the Ruins." Court Green 5. 146.
Kroll, Judith. 2008. "Court Green." Court Green 5. 212-3.
Kuan, Debora. 2008. "Snug Guns." Court Green 5. 204.
Laroche, Rebecca. 2008. "The Pregnant Woman Reads Sylvia Plath." Court Green 5. 154.
Lemmon, Amy. 2008. "Home Brew." Court Green 5. 157.
Liddy, James. 2005. "To the Memory of Sylvia Plath: A Personal Note." Legal Studies Forum. June: 129.
Loden, Rachel. 2008. "The Sylvia Plath Story." Court Green 5. 149.
Long, James. 2008. "Between Wings: Poems." Honolulu, HI: Lulu.com.
Lowell, Robert. 1973. "Sylvia Plath." History. New York: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, 135.
Luna, Sheryl. 2005. "After Sylvia Plath." In Pity the Drowned Horses. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press.
Maxwell, Kristi. 2008. "The Of In." Court Green 5. 138-9.
Mitter, Sara S. 1970. "In the Wake of Sylvia Plath." The Observer. May 10, 1971: 31.
Morgan, Robin. 1972. "Arraignment." New York: Random House.
Morphew, Melissa. 2008. "The Year of Sylvia Plath." Crab Orchard Review 13:2. Summer 2008.
Morrissay, Michael. 1981. She's Not the child of Sylvia Plath: Poems. Sword Press.
Mueller, Jenny. 2008. "Sylvia Plath at the Aviary." Court Green 5. 210-11.
Muldoon, Paul. 1994. "Yarrow." The Annals of Chile. London: Faber & Faber.
Mullen, Laura. 2008. "Mirror, Mirror." Court Green 5. 185.
Murphy, Sarah. 2008. "War Story." Court Green 5. 156.
Newman, Amy. 2008. "Little Winter, 1962." Court Green 5. 152-3.
Novak, Robert. 1983. Sleeping with Sylvia Plath. The Windless Orchard Chapbook Series.
Oates, Joyce Carol. 1973. The Fabulous Beasts. Louisiana: Louisiana University Press.
Ossip, Kathleen. 2008. "Plath Variations." Court Green 5. 163-5.
Rukeyser, Muriel. 2008. "Not to Be Printed, Not to be Said, Not to Be Thought." Court Green 5. 194.
Ruiz Udiel, Francisco. 2005. "Cada Cuatro años Nace Una Poeta Suicida."
Satterfield, Jane. 2008. "Letter in February" and "Shade." Court Green 5. 135-7.
Scates, Maxine. 2008. "Anne Sexton on the Cover of APR: 1973." Court Green 5. 179-80.
Schneiderman, Jason. 2008. "Self Portrait of Gertrude Stein with Increasing Plath Fixation." and "Anachronistic Fair Use Self Portraits of 20th Century Sylvia Plath (with 'Daddy' Fixation)." Court Green 5. 198-203.
Sexton, Anne. 1966. "Sylvia's Death" and "Wanting to Die." Live or Die. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
Shaw, Anne. 2008. "Hive." Court Green 5. 134.
Sherrill, Peter. "For Sylvia Plath." Wisconsin Academy Review. Spring 2000: 27.
Siek, Robert. 2008. "Fresh Air." Court Green 5. 174.
Sittler, Lee Anne. 2008. "Notes." Court Green 5. 219-21.
Stevenson, Anne. 2008. "Letter to Sylvia Plath." Selected Poems. New York: Library of America: 59-63.
Stevenson, Anne. 1989. "Three Poems for Sylvia Plath." The Other House.
Strange, Sharon. Spring 2003. "On Seeing Sylvia Plath Written on a Wall." Callaloo.
Timmons, Susie. 2008. "Channel, 'Southern', 'colic'." Court Green 5. 207-209.
Valentine, Jean. 2008. "To Plath, to Sexton." Court Green 5. 178.
Wilbur, Richard. 1976. "Cottage Street, 1953." The mind-reader: new poems. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.
Ward, Jean Elizabeth. 2008. An Homage to Sylvia Plath. Lulu.com.
Wolf, Manfred. 1974. On the Death of Sylvia Plath and other poems women's voices from Holland and Flanders. San Francisco: Twowindows Press.
Wong, Angela Veronica. 2008. "In Spring" and "Remains." Court Green 5. 158-9.
Wormser, Baron. 2008. "Heptonstall Cemetery." Court Green 5. 145.
Animation, motion pictures, and scripts
Brownlow, John. 2003. Sylvia: The Shooting Script. New York: Newmarket Press.
Hanna, Suzie and Tom Simmons. 2007. The Girl Who Would be God. The Sylvia Plath 75th Year Symposium.
Jeffs, Christine. 2003. Sylvia. London: Capitol Films.
Music & Opera
Adams, Ryan. 2001. "Sylvia Plath." Gold. Universal City, Calif: Lost Highway.
Ahrold, Frank, Corinne Curry, and Harold Farberman. 1978. Three Poems of Sylvia Plath.
Altena, Maarten, and Sylvia Plath. 1986. Three Songs on Poems by Sylvia Plath: For High Voice and Seven Instruments, 1986. Amsterdam: Donemus.
Anderson, Mimi Weisbord, and Nanette Rainone. 1972. The Blood Jet is Poetry: The Life and Work of Sylvia Plath.
Blaustein, Susan and Sylvia Plath. 1986. The Moon has Nothing to be Sad About: Six Poems from Ariel by Sylvia Plath: A Song Cycle for Mezzo-Soprano and Chamber Ensemble. Ship Bottom, N.J.: Association for the Promotion of New Music.
Boatwright, Howard, and Sylvia Plath. 1995. Five Poems of Sylvia Plath: For Soprano and Piano. Fayetteville, N.Y.: Walnut Grove Press.
Cohen, Fred S., Linda Pastan, Philip Levine, and Sylvia Plath. 1990. Three for Emily: Setting of Three Poems by Linda Pastan, Philip Levine and Sylvia Plath, for Soprano and Chamber Ensemble. New York, N.Y.: American Composers Alliance.
Cost, Deborah K. 1975. Dies irae for Sylvia Plath: 1975.
Harris, William. 1991. Waking in Winter: Three Songs on Verse by Sylvia Plath. Wien: B.H. Realist Press.
Hölszky, Adriana, and Hans Neuenfels. 1999-2000. Giuseppe e Sylvia.
Knehans, Douglas, and Sylvia Plath. 1985. Five Songs to Poems of Sylvia Plath. Sydney: Sounds Australian.
Lipkis, Larry. 1974. Ariel: Three Poems by Sylvia Plath Set for Soprano, cello, and piano.
Manic Street Preachers. 1996. "The Girl Who Wanted To Be God." Everything Must Go. London: Sony Music.
Nordentoft, Anders, and Sylvia Plath. 1987. 2 Sylvia Plath Songs. Copenhagen: W. Hansen.
Packer, Randall, and Sylvia Plath. 1981. Ariel Settings: 4 Poems of Sylvia Plath for Tenor and String Quartet. New York: American Composers Alliance.
Ran, Shulamit, and Sylvia Plath. 2000. Apprehensions (1978-1979): For Voice, Clarinet and Piano. Tel-Aviv, Israel: Israel Music Institute.
Reimann, Aribert, and Sylvia Plath. 1987. Six Poems by Sylvia Plath: for Soprano and Piano. Mainz: Schott.
Rorem, Ned, and Sylvia Plath. 1974. Ariel: 5 Poems of Sylvia Plath, for Soprano, Clarinet and Piano. New York: Boosey & Hawkes.
Veldhuis, Jacob ter, and Sylvia Plath. 1980. 3 Poems by Sylvia Plath. [S.l: s.n.].