„[It is proper to say] that Sylvia Plath represents for us a tragic figure involved in a tragic action, and that her tragedy is offered to us as a near-perfect work of art“. In: Joyce Carol Oates: The Death Throes of Romanticism: The Poetry of Sylvia Plath.
„Bitter Fame […] misses no opportunity to cut Plath down to size […] and generally bad-mouths someone who, alas, can no longer answer back for herself.“ In: Sylvia Plath: An Exchange. In: The New York Review of Books, Volume 36, Nummer 16, 26. Oktober 1989.
