Sylvia Plath / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom. - Updated ed. - New York : Bloom's Literary Criticism, c2007. - vii, 250 p. ; 25 cm. - Bloom's modern critical views .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-235) and index.

Introduction / The bell jar / Sylvia Plath and the poetry of confession / "Daddy" / The poems of 1957 / A long hiss of distress : Plath's elegy on the beach at Berck / Transitional poetry / Gothic subjectivity / From the bottom of the pool : Sylvia Plath's last poems / Prosopopoeia and Holocaust poetry in English : Sylvia Plath and her contemporaries / Plath's triumphant women poems / Poetry and survival / Chronology. Harold Bloom -- Caroline King Barnard Hall -- Bruce Bawer -- Jacqueline Rose -- Nancy D. Hargrove -- Sandra M. Gilbert -- Caroline King Barnard Hall -- Christina Britzolakis -- Tim Kendall -- Susan Gubar -- Linda Wagner-Martin -- Susan Bassnett --

ISBN: 0791094316 (hardcover) 9780791094310 (hardcover)

LCCN: 2006033633

Subjects--Personal Names:
Plath, Sylvia--Criticism and interpretation.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
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LC Class. No.: PS3566.L27 / Z914 2007

Dewey Class. No.: 811/.54