Plath books: The Haunting of Sylvia Plath (Jacqueline Rose) Revising Life (Susan R Van Dyne) Sylvia Plath: The Critical Heritage Series (Linda Wagner-Martin; any of her books on Plath is tops, she's written about 3 or 4) The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes (Janet Malcolm) [Quite pro-Ted Hughes] Bitter Fame (Anne Stevenson) [Also pro-Ted Hughes, but then that might be Olwyn Hughes' influence on Stevenson] These should be a good start. Revising Life is the most intelligent, blow-you-away reading, in my mind. Cheers, Ivy -- i think therefore iamb.