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Interesting facts about her life
 In 1955, the year Plath graduated from Smith College, she won the Glascock
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Prize with "Two Lovers and a Beachcomber by the Real Sea".
Sylvia Plath (October 27,1932-February 11, 1963) was an American poet,
Novelist, children’s author, and short story author.
Sylvia Plath published her first poem when she was eight
By the time she entered Smith College on a scholarship in 1950 she already had
an impressive list of publications, and while at Smith she wrote over four hundred
poems.
Plath's father was a professor of biology and German at Bosto University and
author of a book about bumblebees
During the summer after her third year of college Plath was awarded a coveted
position as guest editor at Mademoiselle magazine, during which she spent a
month in New York City
Daddy is probably Plath's most famous poem
Plath took her own life after she completely sealed the rooms between herself
and her sleeping children with "wet towels and cloths." Plath then placed her
head in the oven while the gas was turned on and the pilot light was not lit. The
next day an inquiry ruled that her death was a suicide.
 A Birthday Present
Poems
 Crossing The Water
 A Lesson In Vengeance
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A Life
Aftermath
Among the Narcissi
An Appearance
Apprehensions
April 18
Ariel
Balloons
Berck-Plage
Black Rook in Rainy Weather
Blackberrying
Bucolics
By Candlelight
Child
Cinderella
Contusion
Conversation Among the Ruins 2
Crossing the River
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Cut
Daddy
Death & Co.
Dialogue Between Ghost and Priest
Edge
Electra on Azalea Path
Elm
Face Lift
Faun
Fever 103 deg.
Fiesta Melons
Full Fathom Five
Getting There
Gigolo
Goatsucker
I Am Vertical
In Plaster
Insomniac
Jilted
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books
The Bell Jar
The Collected Poems
Ariel
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia
Plath
Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams:
Short Stories, Prose, and Diary…
Ariel: The Restored Edition
The Colossus and Other Poems
The Journals of Sylvia Plath
Letters Home
Crossing the Water
Plath: Poems (Everyman's Library
Pocket Poets)
Sylvia Plath's Selected Poems (Faber
Poetry)
Winter Trees
The Bed Book
The it-doesn't-matter suit
Voice of the Poet: Plath
Sylvia Plath Reads
Sylvia Plath (Faber 80th Anniversary
Edition)
Three Women
Collected Children's Stories (Faber
Children's Classics)
 Lady Lazarus e altre poesie
 Stings: Original Drafts of the Dreams of
the Poem Facsimile Reproduced…
 Cliffs Notes on Plath's The Bell Jar
 Voices & Visions: Sylvia Plath
 American Poetry Now: A Selection of
the best poems by modern American…
 Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
 Pela água
 Soy Vertical Pero Preferira Ser
Horizontal
 Opowiadania
 I capolavori di Sylvia Plath
 26 poesie
 Noční tance
 Sylvia Plath (Poet to Poet)
 Sylvia Plath [sound recording]
 Two Poems
 Sylvia Plath (Spoken Word)
 The Faber Plath (Poet to Poet: An
Essential Choice of Classic Verse)
 Opere
 Sylvia Plath reading her poetry. [Sound
recording]
 Above the oxbow