Sylvia Plath
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Sylvia Plath was an American poet and writer who lived from 1932 until her death in 1963 at age 30. Her work, which often explored themes of mental anguish and personal struggle, has made her one of the most widely read and studied poets in American literature.
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- 27 October 1932
- Died
- 11 February 1963
- Works
- 120
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- The Best American Short Stories 1973
- Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--The American Experience
- Selections from her poetry on typed sheets
- Bell Jar (SparkNotes Literature Guide)
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Sylvia Plath (October 27, 1932 – February 11, 1963) was an American poet, novelist, short story writer, and essayist. Plath was married to fellow poet Ted Hughes, with whom she had two children, Frieda and Nicholas. She had suffered from depression throughout her life, surviving numerous suicide attempts, but finally ended her life in 1963. Her last work, 'Ariel' is often considered to be her best work. She won the Pulitzer Prize posthumously, in 1982. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Sylvia+P
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Sylvia Plath (October 27, 1932 – February 11, 1963) was an American poet and author. She is credited with advancing the genre of confessional poetry and is best known for The Colossus and Other Poems (1960), Ariel (1965), and The Bell Jar (1963), a semi-autobiographical novel published one month before her suicide. The Collected Poems was published in 1981, which included previously unpublished works. For this collection Plath was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1982, making her the fourth person to receive this honor posthumously.
Born in Jamaica Plain, Boston, Massachusetts, Plath graduated from Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, and then the University of Cambridge in England, where she was a Fulbright student at Newnham College. In 1959, Plath took a creative writing seminar taught by Robert Lowell at Boston University, alongside poets Anne Sexton and George Starbuck. Within this seminar, Plath, Lowell and Sexton, whilst starting with very different writing styles, each gravitated towards a new style of poetry dubbed confessional for its use of personal experience and its tendency to use a direct form of address. She married fellow poet Ted Hughes in 1956 in London. In 1957, they briefly moved to the United States, but moved back to England in the winter of 1959.
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