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