Bibliography
"A Brief Guide to Confessional Poetry." Poets.org. February 21, 2014. https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/text/brief-guide-confessional-poetry. Enough discussion of confessional poets and poetry for reader to have a sound understanding and bearing of how the unit's poets fit in.
Chiasson, Dan. "The Illness and Insight of Robert Lowell." The New Yorker, March 20, 2017. Accessed July 13, 2018. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/03/20/the-illness-and-insight-of-robert-lowell. I'd been trying to read as much as I could of the book of which this was a review. This really covered what I needed for my unit or to brush up before one might teach it.
Doomchin, Molly. Sylvia Plath: The Dialogue between Poetry and Painting. PhD diss., Boston University. Boston University Arts and Sciences Writing Program. I found no publication year for this paper.
Fry, Paul H. "The Lamplit Answer? Gjertrud Schnackenberg's Antiekphrases." In N the Frame: Women's Ekphrastic Poetry from Marianne Moore to Susan Wheeler, edited by Jane Hedley, Nick Halpern, and Willard Spiegelman, 55-71. Cranbury, NJ: Associated University Presses, 2009. By our seminar leader. Along with WJT Mitchell's work, this informed how I read all three poems although I ended taking out this section of the unit.
Hedley, Jane. "Sylvia Plath's Ekphrastic Poetry." Raritan 20, no. 4 (2001): 37-73. https://literature.proquest.com/pageImage.do?ftnum=73088516&fmt=page&area=abell&journalid=02751607&articleid=R01510237&pubdate=2001&queryid=3059790352814.
Hollander, John. The Gazer's Spirit: Poems Speaking to Silent Works of Art. University of Chicago Press, 1995.
Jamison, Kay R. Robert Lowell, Setting the River on Fire: A Study of Genius, Mania, and Character. Alfred A. Knopf, 2017. This biography of Lowell focuses on his mental health and the role it played in his writing and teaching. It had just come out, and I couldn’t put it down.
McNamara, Andrew E. "Andrew McNamara, Words and Pictures in the Age of the Image: An Interview with W. J. T. Mitchell." Eyeline Magazine 30 (Autumn 1996): 16-21. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/4620/1/4620.pdf. I read this for a previous seminar, but remembered it for its analysis of image and text and the predominance of image in contemporary life.
Meyers, Jeffrey. "Sylvia Plath: The Paintings in the Poems." Word & Image 20, no. 2 (2004): 107-22. Accessed July 14, 2018. doi:10.1080/02666286.2004.10444009. Avoiding Wikipedia, as we tell our students to do in most situations, or seeking complimentary material, I found good content about De Chirico's painting here.
Mitchell, W. J. Thomas. Picture Theory. University of Chicago Press, 1995.
Wedding, Danny. "Cognitive Distortions in the Poetry of Anne Sexton." Suicide and Life Threatening Behavior, December 30, 2010, 140-44. Accessed July 11, 2018. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1943-278X.2000.tb01072.x. Interesting article connecting Sexton's (and other confessional poets') psychological diagnoses with her writing style. It also coincides with what Jamison and Chiasson say about Lowell and metaphor.
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