Presents a collection of criticism and analysis of the works of the twentieth-century American poet. Contents: * Introduction / Harold Bloom * The Bell Jar / Caroline King Barnard Hall * Sylvia Plath and the Poetry of Confession / Bruce Bawer * "Daddy" / Jacqueline Rose * The Poems of 1957 / Nancy D. Hargrove * A Long Hiss of Distress : Plath's Elegy on the Beach at Berck / Sandra M. Gilbert * Transitional Poetry / Caroline King Barnard Hall * Gothic Subjectivity / Christina Britzolakis * From the Bottom of the Pool : Sylvia Plath's Last Poems / Tim Kendall * Prosopopoeia and Holocaust Poetry in English : Sylvia Plath and Her Contemporaries / Susan Gubar * Plath's Triumphant Women Poems / Linda Wagner-Martin * Poetry and Survival / Susan Bassnett * Chronology