Sylvia Plath's library

Books from Sylvia Plath's own shelves, now at Smith College, with the books she owned, signed or marked that stayed in Ted Hughes's library, now at Emory University.

214 books

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All 214 books, by author

Libro Italiano
AThe Oresteian Trilogy · Aeschylus
Aristotle's Politics · Aristotle
The Ethics of Aristotle · Aristotle
Elizabethan fiction · Robert Paul Ashley
Nones · W. H Auden
The collected poetry of W.H. Auden · W. H Auden
The city of God · of Hippo Augustine
The Confessions of St. Augustine · of Hippo Augustine
BCASSELLS NEW FRENCH-ENGLISH ENGLISH-FRENCH DICTIONARY · Ernest A Baker
Creatures of darkness · Esther Baskin
Les fleurs du mal · Charles Baudelaire
Waiting for Godot · Samuel Beckett
Homage to Mistress Bradstreet · John Berryman
The portable Blake · William Blake
The Story of the Bible · Walter Russell Bowie (family copy)
Cassells new german and english dictionary · Karl Breul
The well wrought urn · Cleanth Brooks
Understanding poetry · Cleanth Brooks
The Religio medici and other writings · Thomas Browne
The Writer's Handbook · A. S Burack
CL'Homme révolté · Albert Camus
Sartor resartus · Thomas Carlyle
The Oxford book of sixteenth century verse · E. K Chambers
The white gate · Mary Ellen Chase
The poetical works of Chaucer · Geoffrey Chaucer
The stories of Anton Tchekov · Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Selected Poems of John Clare · John Clare
The Complete poems of Hart Crane · Hart Crane
Culpeper's Complete Herbal · Nicholas Culpeper
Collected poems · E. E Cummings
I, six nonlectures · E. E Cummings
The Enormous Room · E. E Cummings
DChildbirth without fear · Grantly Dick-Read
Crime and Punishment · Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Brothers Karamazov · Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Diary of a Writer · Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The short novels of Dostoevsky · Fyodor Dostoyevsky
T.S. Eliot; the design of his poetry · Elizabeth A Drew
Saint Dunstan of Canterbury · Eleanor Shipley Duckett
The poems of William Dunbar · William Dunbar
Henry James · F. W Dupee
EMyths, Dreams and Mysteries · Mircea Eliade
The Complete Poems and Plays · T. S Eliot
Choix de poèmes · Paul Éluard
Emerson · Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Bacchae, and other plays · Euripides
Three plays · Euripides
FThe Sound and the Fury · William Faulkner
The age of Chaucer · Boris Ford
Aspects of the novel · E. M Forster
The Golden Bough · James George Frazer
The Basic Writings of Sigmund Freud · Sigmund Freud
The Art of Loving · Erich Fromm
complete poems of robert frost · Robert Frost
College botany · Harry J Fuller
GRestoration plays · Edmund Gosse
Die Blechtrommel · Günter Grass
Gleisdreieck · Günter Grass
The Oxford Book Of Seventeenth Century Verse · H. J. C. & G. Bullough Griertson
Märchen der Brüder Grimm · Jacob Grimm
HNew poets of England and America: second selection · Donald Hall
The college short story reader · Harry W Hastings
Hawthorne's Short Stories · Nathaniel Hawthorne
Catch-22 · Joseph Heller
A Shropshire lad · A. E Housman
Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of morals · David Hume
IEleven plays of Henrik Ibsen · Henrik Ibsen
JA Celtic miscellany · Kenneth Hurlstone Jackson
Selected short stories · Henry James
The Ambassadors · Henry James
The Bostonians · Henry James
The Golden Bowl · Henry James
The lesson of the master · Henry James
The notebooks of Henry James · Henry James
The Portrait of a Lady · Henry James
The tragic muse · Henry James
The Wings of the Dove · Henry James
What Maisie Knew · Henry James
The Varieties of Religious Experience · William James
Hamlet and Oedipus · Ernest Jones
On the nightmare · Ernest Jones (family copy)
Ben Jonson's plays · Ben Jonson
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man · James Joyce
Chamber Music · James Joyce
Dubliners · James Joyce
Finnegans Wake · James Joyce
Ulysses · James Joyce
KSelected Short Stories of Franz Kafka · Franz Kafka
The Trial · Franz Kafka
The letters of John Keats · John Keats
A curious quire · Stanley Koehler
Kant · Stephan Körner
LPhilosophy in a new key · Susanne K Langer
Aaron's Rod · D. H Lawrence
Kangaroo · D. H Lawrence
Lady Chatterley's Lover · D. H Lawrence
Phoenix · D. H Lawrence
Selected Essays · D. H Lawrence
Sons and Lovers · D. H Lawrence
Studies in classic American literature · D. H Lawrence
the complete poems · D. H Lawrence
The complete short stories [of] D. H. Lawrence · D. H Lawrence
The man who died · D. H Lawrence
The plumed serpent · D. H Lawrence
The Rainbow · D. H Lawrence
Women in Love · D. H Lawrence
The memoirs and correspondence · Frieda Lawrence
New bearings in English poetry · F. R Leavis
Revaluation · F. R Leavis
The great tradition · F. R Leavis
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding · John Locke
Poet in New York · Federico García Lorca
Imitations · Robert Lowell
Lord Weary's castle ; and, The mills of the Kavanaughs · Robert Lowell
MThe Prince · Niccolò Machiavelli
Death in Venice · Thomas Mann
Selected stories · Katherine Mansfield
Collected Rhymes and Verses · Walter De la Mare
Creative intuition in art and poetry · Jacques Maritain
Christopher Marlowe · Christopher Marlowe
Moby Dick · Herman Melville
Selected Tales and Poems · Herman Melville
Green with beasts · W. S Merwin
The dancing bears · W. S Merwin
The drunk in the furnace · W. S Merwin
A Review of French Grammar · André Mesnard
Mill on Bentham and Coleridge · John Stuart Mill
Utilitarianism, liberty, representative government · John Stuart Mill
Second April. -- · Edna St. Vincent Millay (family copy)
Paradise Lost · John Milton
Paradise Regained · John Milton
The Penguin book of modern American verse · Geoffrey Moore
Collected poems · Marianne Moore
Predilections · Marianne Moore
Gallipoli · Alan Moorehead
NThus Spake Zarathustra · Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (family copy)
OJapanese fairy tales · Yei Theodora Ozaki
PHobbes · R. S Peters
Picasso · Pablo Picasso
Euthyphro, Apology, and Crito, and the Death scene from Phaedo · Plato
Five Dialogues · Plato
Lysis · Plato
A Christmas story · Katherine Anne Porter (family copy)
Venture to the Interior · Laurens Van der Post
The Song of God Bhagavad-GIta · Swami Prabhavananda
Swann's Way · Marcel Proust
Within a Budding Grove · Marcel Proust
QThe Oxford book of English verse, 1250-1918 · Arthur Quiller-Couch
RTheatre complet de racine · Jean Racine
The painted caravan · Basil Ivan Rákóczi
Selected poems · John Crowe Ransom
Italian through pictures · I. A Richards
The Lonely Crowd · David Riesman
Der ausgewählten Gedichte erster Teil · Rainer Maria Rilke
Selected works · Rainer Maria Rilke
Sonnets to Orpheus · Rainer Maria Rilke
The Notebook of Malte Laurids Brigge · Rainer Maria Rilke
A Season in Hell & Illuminations · Arthur Rimbaud
Poèmes · Pierre de Ronsard
German in review · Robert O Röseler
Passion and society · Denis de Rougemont (family copy)
Selected poems · Muriel Rukeyser
SWind, Sand and Stars · Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Nine Stories · J. D Salinger
All My Pretty Ones · Anne Sexton
The complete plays and poems of William Shakespeare · William Shakespeare
Psychology and the Promethean will · William Herbert Sheldon
And quiet flows the Don, · Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov
Key to the Door · Alan Sillitoe
The canticle of the rose · Edith Sitwell
The Oxford book of eighteenth century verse · David Nichol Smith
Electra · Sophocles
The Theban plays · Sophocles
BABY CHILD CARE · Benjamin Spock
West of your city · William Stafford
Cambridge · John Steegman
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas · Gertrude Stein
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman · Laurence Sterne
The collected poems of Wallace Stevens · Wallace Stevens
The Middle Ages, 395-1500 · Joseph R Strayer
Eight famous plays · August Strindberg
International Modern Plays · August Strindberg
Six Plays of Strindberg · August Strindberg
Collected plays · J. M Synge
TIn country sleep · Dylan Thomas
Under Milk Wood · Dylan Thomas
Tares · R. S Thomas
Ivan Ilych and Hadji Murad · Leo Tolstoy
UModern British poetry · Louis Untermeyer
WWeep before God · John Wain
John Webster and Cyril Tourneur: four plays · John Webster
Webster's new collegiate dictionary · Noah Webster
From Ritual to Romance · Jessie L Weston
Riders in the chariot · Patrick White
Ceremony and Other Poems · Richard Wilbur
Poems · Richard Wilbur
A little treasury of modern poetry, English and American · Oscar Williams
Camino Real · Tennessee Williams
Axel's castle · Edmund Wilson
Parzival · von Eschenbach Wolfram
The complete rhyming dictionary, and poet's craft book. · Clement Wood
A haunted house, and other short stories · Virginia Woolf
A Room of One's Own · Virginia Woolf
A Writer's Diary · Virginia Woolf
Between the Acts · Virginia Woolf
Jacob's Room · Virginia Woolf
Mrs. Dalloway · Virginia Woolf
The Voyage Out · Virginia Woolf
The Waves · Virginia Woolf
The years · Virginia Woolf
To the Lighthouse · Virginia Woolf
YThe collected plays of W. B. Yeats · W. B Yeats
The collected poems of W.B. Yeats · W. B Yeats

Titles we couldn't find (10)

The catalogue lists these, but they have no page here: some are rare or long out of print, and some are pamphlets or magazine issues.

Goethe's poems · Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 1941 · Internet Archive scan
London magazine · 1954
New poems · 1952
Plato's The republic · Plato · 1941 · Internet Archive scan
Plays · Anton Pavlovich Chekhov · 1935 · no copy found online
Poetry (Chicago, Ill.) · 1912
Smith College bulletin: the catalogue number, 1953-1954 · 1954 (family copy) · Internet Archive scan
The Teach yourself French phrase book · 1947
The Writer: the oldest magazine for literary workers · 1887 · Internet Archive scan
Writer's yearbook · 1930

Source: Smith College Special Collections; Ted Hughes Library, Emory University