Red Comet: the short life and blazing art of Sylvia Plath: Heather Clark Q&A with Amanda Golden.7/26/2026 In preparation for the Marianne Moore and the Archives Conference, some images of Sylvia Plath's underlining and marginal marks in her copy of Marianne Moore's Collected Poems, housed at Smith College.
On May 30, 2020, I discussed my book Annotating Modernism in a presentation for the first Sylvia Plath Zoomposium.
Excerpts from Sylvia Plath's copy of James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916), in the University's Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library at Emory University. Plath underlined this copy as a student at Smith College. She owned a copy of The Portable James Joyce, held by the Lilly Library at Indiana University, in which she underlined and annotated Portrait of the Artist to teach first year English at Smith College from 1957-1958. For further information, see Golden, Annotating Modernism: Marginalia and Pedagogy from Virginia Woolf to the Confessional Poets (2020).
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