by Sylvia Plath
Lynes, Russell, 142
Lyonnesse (legendary place), 903
Lyric, SP’s work in, 104–5, 117; Young Poets Prize, 105
Macauley, Robie, SP’s correspondence with, 371–2, 470
McBain, Ed, see Hunter, Evan
MacBeth, George, 529, 531n, 808n, 865n; ‘Afterlife’, 754; ‘Ash’, 754; ‘Mother Superior’, 754; ‘Report to The Director’, 754n; Penguin Book of Sick Verse, 809; SP’s correspondence with, 494, 527, 754, 786–7, 809, 967, 954
MacCaig, Norman, ‘Snow in Princes Street’, 577n
McCall’s Magazine, 130, 665n, 668
McCarthy, Mary, 302n
McCloskey, Robert, Make Way for Ducklings, 942, 952
McCue, Esther Schober, 196
McCue, Paul L., 196
McCully, Emily Arnold, 317n
McDowell Colony, 243, 361, 363
Macedo, Helder, 641, 649, 898, 929, 940, 942
Macedo, Suzette, 641, 649, 898, 929, 940, 942, 958
McFague, Sallie, 236n
McGowan, Edith A., 114
McGowan, Robert, 114
McGowan, Robert G., 114
McGowan, Ruth C., 114
MacGregor-Hastie, Roy, 14, 15n
Machiavelli, Niccoló, 178, 193, 462
Machin, David, 928n
MacKenzie, Rachel, 358n, 365n; SP’s correspondence with, 360, 370–1, 377
McLean Hospital (Belmont, Mass.), 22, 421, 684, 843, 960; Bowditch, 684
McLeod, Emilie, 26, 30, 69, 316, 327; SP’s correspondence with, 317, 326
McManus, Jason, 398n
Macmillan & Co., 111, 130, 317n, 328
Macnamara, Kathleen Jones, 783n, 787–9, 836–7, 856
Macnamara, Terence C., 783n, 788
MacNeice, Hedli, see Anderson, Hedli MacNeice, Louis, 98, 484, 486, 488, 491, 531, 536n, 576, 716n
Madeira, Albert Pierpont, 88n
Madeira, Beatrice von Baur, 88n
Mademoiselle (‘Mme’, ‘Mlle’), 4, 221, 291, 392, 396, 515, 683, 699, 748, 771n; College Board of, 683, 748, 771n; SP’s work in, 16, 76, 104, 117, 221n, 291, 319, 325, 425, 660, 701, 718, 770; TH’s work in, 221n, 291, 515n
Madrid, Spain, 34
Magendantz, Heinz, 711n
Magendantz, Melitta Hey, 711
Maidenform, 714
Maine, 74, 511n
Málaga, Spain, 822n
Malleson, Miles, 468n
‘Man Who Sold the Eiffel Tower, The’, 788n
Manchester, England, 395
Manchester Guardian, see Guardian, The Manly, George, 783n
Mann, Thomas, 91, 293
Mansfield, Jayne, 108n
Mansie, James, 501n
Manzi, Mr (fictitious character), 684
Mardi, Sister (‘Mardee’, SP’s midwife), 446–8, 449–51, 456–8, 519–20, 554
Marks, T. L., 276n
Marlowe, Christopher, 121
Marriage, 244, 512, 519, 558, 565, 699, 796–7, 804, 808, 831–2; SP’s ideal husband, 53, 128, 145, 150, 198, 244, 503, 609, 792, 878–9
Marriott, Kitty, 826, 829, 831, 833, 887, 893
Martha’s Vineyard, Mass., 32n
Marvell, Andrew, 186
Maryland, 480, 550
Mason, Angelica, 767n
Mason, Ella, 102n, 568
Massachusetts, 38, 48, 54, 70, 138n, 318, 433n; see also individual towns Massachusetts General Hospital (Boston), 282–3, 286, 325, 474
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (‘M.I.T.’, ‘MIT’), 115, 271, 303; Little Theatre, 303n
Massachusetts State House (Boston), 316
Massachusetts Turnpike, 333
Massingham, Harold, ‘Graveside’, 797n
Materialism, 8, 12–13, 15, 28, 36, 38, 40, 43, 45, 56–7, 80, 82, 106–7, 110, 113, 115, 155, 157, 159, 161, 171, 196, 202, 262, 331, 378–9, 384, 386, 392–4, 405, 417, 419–20, 422, 430, 432, 434, 437–8, 442, 454, 459, 478, 498n, 610, 620, 640–2, 644, 647, 665, 669, 672, 672, 677, 686–7, 689, 697, 710, 712, 749, 850, 874, 899, 904, 910–11, 914, 929, 940, 947, 949
Matthau, Walter, 108n
Maugham, W. (William) Somerset, 414, 422, 442–3, 471, 476; see also Somerset Maugham Award
Maxwell, Gavin, The Otter’s Tale, 771n
Maxwell, William, SP’s correspondence with, 319
Mayfair (London), 423, 436, 808n
Mayo, Lynne S., 231n
Mayorga, Nancy Pope, ‘Money is Wonderful’, 434n
Mazillius, Charles, 825, 827, 829, 833, 837–8, 840–2, 844, 857, 859, 865, 868, 888, 905, 910, 921, 923, 929, 935–7
Medford, Mass., 52, 54
Mediterranean Sea, 34, 36, 126, 129, 443
Medora, North Dakota, 339n
Melbourne, Australia, 468, 906n
Melpar, Inc., 119–20
Melrose High School, 309n
Melville, Herman, 208, 215, 299
Memories of Whitstead, 180n, 464n
Meridian Books, 718, 720, 723; SP’s correspondence with, see Back, Mary Louise Vincent
Merwin, Dido, 193, 213, 231, 382–3, 386, 391, 401, 403–4, 406–7, 409–10, 412, 415, 417–19, 421–2, 433–5, 437, 440, 442, 452–3, 455–6, 459, 461, 463, 465–6, 468, 471, 473, 477, 479, 481, 483, 493–4, 496, 501, 505–7, 526, 530n, 545–6, 551, 555, 560, 568, 574, 582, 590–1, 596, 608, 616, 620–1, 623–4, 628–31, 641, 652, 666n, 763, 899–901, 920, 925, 945; SP’s correspondence with, 485–6, 587–9, 632; SP’s descriptions of, 403–4, 410, 574, 945; TH’s correspondence with, 485n, 632n, 666n
Merwin, W. S. (William Stanley) (‘Bill’), 185, 192–3, 213, 231, 382–3, 386, 401, 403, 406–7, 409–10, 418–19, 421–2, 429, 433–5, 437, 440, 442, 453, 455–6, 459–61, 463, 466, 471, 476–7, 479, 481, 494, 496, 501, 505–7, 526, 530n, 546, 555, 560, 568, 574, 582, 583n, 590–1, 605, 608, 614, 616, 621, 623–4, 628–30, 632n, 652, 655, 666, 682, 763; ‘Another Year Come’, 627n; ‘As By Water’, 763n; dedications to SP and TH, 437; The Drunk in the Furnace, 461n, 555, 655n; The Gilded West, 546; ‘John Otto’, 589; ‘The Native’, 627n, 682; ‘Pedigrees’, 627n; Some Spanish Ballads, 437; ‘Something of His Own to Say’, 185n; SP’s correspondence with, 485–6, 587–9, 899–901; SP’s descriptions of, 404; TH’s correspondence with, 485n, 666n
Mexborough, England, 211, 560n
Mexborough Grammar School, 560n, 609
Mexico, 150, 306, 320–1, 326–7, 348, 352
Meyers, Joan, 438n
Michaels, Leonard, 204, 272, 283
Michelangelo Buonarroti, 316
Michie, James, 160n, 414–15, 429, 513, 596, 654, 657, 676; SP’s correspondence with, 683–5, 723
Michigan, 53–4, 57–8, 338
Middlesex Hospital, 646n
Middleton, Thomas, The Changeling, 582
Mill, John Stuart, 17
Miller, Brett, ‘Chelsea 8: Political Poetry at Midcentury’, 480n
Miller, Karl, 445n, 461, 542n, 923; SP’s correspondence with, 925–6
Miller, Scott William, 654n
Miller, Vassar, 305; Adam’s Footprint, 305n; ‘Adam’s Footprint’, 305n; ‘Apology’, 305n; ‘Autumnal Spring Song’, 305n; ‘Bout with Burning’, 305n; ‘Ceremony’, 305n; ‘Epithalamium’, 305n; ‘Love Song Out of Nothing’, 305n; ‘Paradox’, 305n; ‘Reciprocity’, 305n
Milne, A. A. (Alan Alexander), 408
Milton, John, 215, 280n, 926; Samson Agonistes, 280
Minnesota, 278
Mirski, Boris, 284n; see also Boris Mirski Gallery
‘Miss Wetzel, Warren Plath Are Engaged’, 714n
Mitchell, Julian, 127, 398n
Modern Library (firm), 163n
Molesworth, Mrs (Mary Louisa), The Cuckoo Clock, 556
Molière, 215, 280; The Misanthrope; see also Wilbur, Richard
Momtchiloff, Constantine N., 514
Momtchiloff, Marcia, 497, 514, 516, 522, 524, 526–7, 529, 580
Monck, Nicholas, 83n, 136, 154
Monroe, Marilyn, 360n
Montana, 340–1
Monteith, Ch
arles, 32n, 154n, 235, 240, 429, 484, 516, 530n, 584
Montréal, Québec, 336, 357
Mont-Saint-Michel, France, 629
Moore, Clement, see Henry, Clement M. Moore, Leonard Patrick, 73n, 98, 865, 870–1, 883, 888
Moore, Marianne, 17, 22, 71–2, 77, 91–2, 94, 108, 100, 132, 136, 185, 190n, 210, 237–8, 243, 272, 305, 671, 816n, 818, 857; Collected Poems, 77, 816n; ‘The Dial: A Retrospect’ (quotation from), 92; ‘A Festival’, 237n; ‘Marriage’, (quotation from) 816n; ‘My Crow Pluto, the True Plato’, 671n; Predilections, 92n
Moore, Sarah-Elizabeth, see Rodger, Sarah-Elizabeth
Moore, Susan Alliston, see Alliston, Susan Moorehead, Alan, 503; Gallipoli, 503
Moorsom, Sasha, 461n
Moraes, Dom, 116n, 592; A Beginning, 592n
Mordvinoff, Nicolas, 328
Morgan, George Frederick, 235n, 241; SP’s correspondence with, 325
Morland, Dorothy, 445n
Mormon Church, 344
Morningside Heights (New York), 236n
Moro, Thomas Russell (‘Russ’), 108, 153, 182–3, 282
Morocco, 845
Morris, Irene V., 8, 61, 274
Morris Gray Poetry Fund, 228n
Morris, William, 786
Morton, Mary K., 399, 403, 411, 417, 468, 471, 505, 507, 510, 512, 526, 531
Moscow, Russia, 6, 84
Mosley, Nicholas, Corruption, 228n
Moss, Howard, 160n, 185, 248n, 249, 251, 254, 272, 360, 545n, 583n, 588, 646, 703–5n, 769n, 874n, 937; A Swimmer in the Air, 185n; SP’s correspondence with, 254, 257–8, 268–9, 314, 626, 645–6, 678–9, 705–6, 775, 815, 853–4, 858, 902–3
Motion sickness, 153
Mottram, Eric, 883n
Mount Holyoke College, 56, 58, 77, 136–7, 208, 231, 306, 310, 684
Mt Holyoke Range State Park, 248, 253–4, 257, 260, 264
Mount Vernon (Westchester County, New York), 113
Moyard, Ireland, 826n, 846, 951; Glasthule, 826, 893
‘Mr. Gaitskill “Extraordinary Omission”’, 6n
Muir, Edwin, 187n, 385n; ‘Kinds of Poetry’, 187n
Murano, Italy, 218
Murphy, Richard, 577n, 816, 828, 887, 893, 935, 951; ‘Cleggan Distaster’, 801, 811n; ‘Empty Tower at Ballylee’, 846n; ‘The Progress of a Painter’, 577n; Sailing to an Island, 802n, 811n; ‘Years Later’, 80; SP’s correspondence with, 801–2, 811, 821, 825–6, 8461
Murray, Isabel, see Henderson, Isabel Murray
Museum Boymans-Van Beuningen, 620n
Music, 719–20, 744, 952
Music Box, 373, 389, 415
Muspratt, Helen, 40n
My Weekly, 653n; SP’s work in, 653n, 681, 695
Myers, Cynthia, 431, 433
Myers, E. (Elvis) Lucas (‘Luke’), 5n, 86, 255, 273–4, 276, 286, 349, 366, 430, 433, 436n, 437, 517, 531n, 546, 819; ‘Ballade of the Early Seas’, 200n; ‘The Crest of Kelly Haught’, 286; ‘Fools Encountered’, 627n; ‘Journey in the Tessellated Corn’, 200n; ‘The Tranquilized Fifties’, 819 ; SP’s correspondence with, 85–6, 200; TH’s correspondence with, 5n
Myers, Margaret, 349
Myers, Marie Elizabeth Jeffreys, see Winton, Marie
Myers, Rosamond (Luke Myers’s daughter), 431n
Myers, Rosamond (Luke Myers’s sister) see Thornton, Rosamond Myers, Lady
Mytholmroyd, England, 732–3
Nahant, Mass., 149
Napoleon I, Emperor, 734
Nassau, Bahamas, 409
Nast, Leslie, 905n
Natick, Mass., 268n, 748n
Nation, The, 12, 17, 19, 26, 33, 35, 39, 59, 63, 74, 133–4, 164, 185, 371n, 375n, 423–5, 429, 434, 482, 491, 49, 511, 515, 568, 696; SP’s work in, 76, 104, 117, 325, 423–5, 660, 718; TH’s work in, 12n, 17n, 26n, 39, 134, 164n, 378n, 482n, 511, 515n
National Book Awards, 100n, 444, 812
National Gallery (Great Britain), 461
National Portrait Gallery (Great Britain), 115, 635
National Presto Industries, Inc., 511
National Provincial Bank, 703, 857, 883
Nauset Beach (Mass.), 95, 127, 150, 158, 161, 504, 511
Needham, Mass., 746n
Needles, California, 351n, 352
Neilson, William Allan, 17n
Nemerov, Howard, 137n, 627n, 666, 712n; ‘I Only Am Escaped Alone to Tell Thee’, 627n; ‘The Vacuum’, 627n
Netherlands, 620n
Nevada, 343–4, 347, 696
Neville-Davies, Kenneth Garnett, 709, 922–3, 942, 949, 954
New England, 15, 34, 49, 54, 58, 76, 81, 138, 504, 572, 579, 594, 617n, 652n, 707
New England Baptist Hospital, 111n
New England Deaconess Hospital, 267
New England Poetry Society, 320, 361
New Hampshire, 74
New Mexico, 217
New Mexico Quarterly, 242; SP’s work in, 242n, 325
New Novel (literary movement), 690n
New Orleans, Louisiana, 125, 150, 306, 351–2, 354, 431, 433, 437
New Orleans Poetry Journal, The, 369; SP’s work in, 117, 325, 369n
New Poems 1958, 242n, 423, 425
New Poems, 1962: A P.E.N. Anthology of Contemporary Poetry, 513n, 595n, 887, 890
New Statesman, 133, 137n, 164, 187, 218, 221, 269, 385n, 457n, 653, 671, 672n, 676n, 688, 700, 720, 728, 734, 765, 771, 912, 914, 918, 923, 925, 936; SP’s work in, 676n, 734n, 763, 765, 771n, 896n, 906, 919n, 896n; TH’s work in, 133n, 218n, 269n, 672n, 720, 728, 765, 771n, 968n
New World Writing, 274n
New Year, 45, 199, 202, 288–9, 292, 374–5, 380, 409, 415, 421, 549, 551, 553, 562, 567, 570, 605, 663, 690–1, 701–2, 704, 712, 722–3, 725, 902, 907, 913, 915, 931, 933, 947, 953, 955
New York (State), 96, 321, 332, 347, 357, 756, 777
New York (City) (‘NY’, ‘NYC’, N.Y.C.’), 4, 8, 25, 33, 38, 46, 71, 77, 90, 97, 107–8, 114, 120, 123, 129, 148–51, 168, 172, 176, 182–3, 187, 189–90, 193, 196, 212, 233–6, 239–42, 251, 261, 264, 278, 282n, 367n, 372, 400, 512, 524–5, 548, 554, 556, 612, 614, 616, 626, 646, 659, 661–2, 678, 685, 701, 705, 718, 726, 753, 770, 775, 815, 819, 903, 928n; Bronx Zoo, 234, 236, 241; Central Park, 236, 242; Central Park Zoo, 241; Grand Central Station, 151; theatres: Actors’ Playhouse, 236n; Phoenix Theater, 108n; Sullivan Street Playhouse, 237n
New York, SS, 282n
New York Herald Tribune, 272n
New York Review of Books, The, 753n
New York Times, The, 10n, 19, 236n
New York Times Book Review, The, 185, 198, 291
New York Yankees (baseball team), 194n
New Yorker, The, 5, 7, 11–13, 83, 154, 160, 163–5, 167, 185n, 189, 203, 217, 228n, 248, 254, 256, 259, 292, 303, 313–14, 319, 322, 360, 364–5, 371n, 379, 388, 397, 400, 418, 455, 503, 505, 511, 517, 545, 548, 551, 566, 576, 578, 583, 588, 589n, 593, 626, 646, 653, 678, 703–5, 719, 730, 769, 775, 812, 815, 826, 836, 847, 852–4, 858, 890, 903, 937; SP’s correspondence with, see Hemenway, Robert; MacKenzie, Rachel; Maxwell, William; Moss, Howard; SP’s work in, 249n, 250–2, 255, 261, 264, 272, 275, 283, 314n, 325, 364, 370n, 372, 375, 377, 424–5, 444, 485, 500–1, 505n, 538, 626n, 660, 678–9, 681, 687, 701, 704n, 705, 718, 759, 763, 769n, 796, 847n, 853–4, 856, 859, 869, 880, 937n; TH’s work in, 160n, 189n, 203n, 397n, 545n
Newbery Medal, 310
Newby, P. H. (Percy Howard), 513, 516, 518
‘News in Brief’ (quotation from), 283n
Newton, Mass., 267, 711n
Newton Highlands (Newton, Mass.), 183n
Newton Potters, 183
Newton Savings Bank (Wellesley branch), 147, 150–1, 166, 415, 919
Newton-Wellesley Hospital, 267, 583–5
Nichols, Lewis, ‘In and Out of Books’, 291n
Nimbus, 12n, 50
Nixon, Richard M. (Milhous), 462, 479, 496, 529
Noall, Mabel, 438, 459
Nobel Prize, 791
Nolan, Sydney, 816
Norfolk, England, 515
Norland
, England, 320n
Norsk rikskringkasting, 932, 936
North Atlantic Treaty Organization, 230
North Bay (Ontario), 333, 335–6
North Carolina, 236n, 596
North Dakota, 339, 341
North Tawton, England, 299n, 633–4, 639, 644n, 645–6, 648, 649n, 650, 653–6, 658–9, 661–2, 663n, 664, 666, 669–71, 673–5, 678–80, 682–3, 686, 689–94, 696, 700–1, 703, 705, 709, 711–12, 714, 718–19, 721, 723, 725–6, 730, 736–7, 740–3, 746–50, 753–5, 757, 760–1, 763, 766–8, 770, 772, 775, 776–7n, 779, 781, 784, 786, 788, 790, 795–6, 799–802, 805, 807, 809, 811–12, 815–16, 818–21, 823–6, 833, 835, 839–41, 843, 846–7, 849, 851, 853–5, 857–8, 867–8, 870, 872–6, 880, 885–6, 889–90, 892, 894–5, 898, 902–3, 906–9, 913, 915n, 916, 918, 921, 922n, 924–6, 939, 942, 944, 949, 955; Burton Hall, 648, 709, 755, 765, 768, 776, 789–90; playground, 776, 819, 833, 836; SP and TH’s house (Court Green), 633n, 634, 636–40, 641–2, 644–6, 648, 650, 653–6, 658–9, 661–2, 664, 666, 669–71, 673–5, 678–80, 682–3, 686–7, 689–702, 704–15, 718–19, 721–8, 730–1, 733–76, 777n, 778–91, 793, 795–6, 799–803, 805–7, 808n, 809–13, 815–26, 828–9, 831, 833–7, 839–42, 844, 846–7, 850–1, 853–6, 858–61, 863–4, 867–8, 870–4, 876–7, 880–3, 885–6, 889–95, 897–9, 902–9, 911, 913, 915–16, 918–19, 921, 924–7, 928n, 930, 934–7, 944–6, 949–50, 952–3, 955, 958, 963, 965, 969; St Peter’s Church, 663, 665, 668, 674, 678, 689, 692, 694, 739
Northam, John, 178
Northampton, England, 150
Northampton, Mass. (‘Hamp’), 45n, 89, 103, 113, 131, 140, 149, 151, 155, 159, 162–3, 165–6, 173, 184, 193, 203, 230, 234, 237, 244, 257, 261, 271, 273, 280, 284, 312, 315, 320, 332n, 362, 492, 624; Hampshire Bookshop, 175; SP and TH’s apartment (337 Elm Street), 155–6, 162–3, 165, 170, 173, 184, 208, 218, 227, 233, 257, 262
Northampton Historical Society, 244
Norton, Charles Perry, 362, 650, 730, 963n
Norton, David Allan, 362n, 730
Norton, David William, 362
Norton, Joanne Colburn, 730n
Norton, John Christopher, 362n
Norton, Heidi, 362n
Norton, Mildred Smith (‘Aunt Mildred’), 106n, 367, 456, 496, 497, 572, 730
Norton, Richard Allen (‘Dick’), 362n, 684, 730
Norton, Shirley Baldwin, 362, 963n
Norton, Steven Arthur, 362n
Norton, William Bunnell, 106n, 730
Norton family, 106, 367, 950, 963
Norway, 283, 648, 928
Norwegian translation, 928, 936
Nozal, Andrew, 339