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1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Sylvia_PlathSylvia Plath - Wikipedia

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   Sylvia Plath (/ p l æ θ /; October 27, 1932 – February 11, 1963) was an American poet, novelist, and short story writer. 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 , a semi-autobiographical novel published shortly before her ...

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3. www.britannica.com › biography › Sylvia-PlathSylvia Plath | Biography, Poems, Books, Death, & Facts

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   Oct 27, 1999 · Sylvia Plath (1932–63) was an American poet and novelist whose best-known works explore the themes of alienation, death, and self-destruction. Her novel, The Bell Jar, is strongly autobiographical, and her later poems, such as ‘Daddy’ and ‘Lady Lazarus,’ show great power and pathos borne on flashes of incisive wit.

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   • Sylvia Plath was an American writer whose best-known works, including the poems “Daddy” and “Lady Lazarus” and the novel The Bell Jar, starkly expr...
   • Sylvia Plath published her first poem at age eight. She entered and won many literary contests. She first sold a poem, to The Christian Science Mon...
   • Sylvia Plath entered Smith College on a scholarship in 1951. She achieved considerable artistic, academic, and social success, but she also suffere...
   • In 1956 Sylvia Plath married the English poet Ted Hughes; they had two children. The couple separated in 1962 after Hughes had an affair. Hughes co...
   • The Collected Poems, which included many previously unpublished poems, appeared in 1981 and received the 1982 Pulitzer Prize for poetry, which made...

4. www.poetryfoundation.org › poets › sylvia-plathSylvia Plath | Poetry Foundation

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   Learn about the life and work of Sylvia Plath, one of the most dynamic and admired poets of the 20th century. Explore her autobiographical, confessional, and brutal poems that express her mental anguish, marriage troubles, and vision of herself.

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6. www.biography.com › authors-writers › sylvia-plathSylvia Plath - Poems, Death & The Bell Jar - Biography

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   Apr 3, 2014 · Learn about the life and works of Sylvia Plath, an American poet and novelist who struggled with mental illness and suicide. Discover her famous poems, her only novel The Bell Jar, and her posthumous Pulitzer Prize.

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   Dec 11, 2019 · Learn about the life and works of Sylvia Plath, a renowned poet and author who explored dark themes and depression in her confessional poetry. Discover her achievements, struggles, marriage, and legacy in this comprehensive biography.

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   • Sylvia Plath ( / plæθ /; October 27, 1932 – February 11, 1963) was an American poet, novelist, and short story writer. 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, a semi-autobiographical novel published shortly before her suicide in 1963.

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   What is Sylvia Plath best known for?

   • Sylvia Plath (1932–63) was an American poet and novelist whose best-known works explore the themes of alienation, death, and self-destruction. Her novel, The Bell Jar, is strongly autobiographical, and her later poems, such as ‘Daddy’ and ‘Lady Lazarus,’ show great power and pathos borne on flashes of incisive wit.

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   What does Sylvia Plath feel like?

   • In the New York Times Book Review, former US poet laureate Robert Pinsky wrote, “Thrashing, hyperactive, perpetually accelerated, the poems of Sylvia Plath catch the feeling of a profligate, hurt imagination, throwing off images and phrases with the energy of a runaway horse or a machine with its throttle stuck wide open.

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   Who portrayed Plath in Sylvia (2003)?

   • Gwyneth Paltrow portrayed Plath in the biopic Sylvia (2003). Despite criticism from Elizabeth Sigmund, a friend of Plath and Hughes, that Plath was portrayed as a "permanent depressive and possessive person", she conceded that "the film has an atmosphere towards the end of her life which is heartbreaking in its accuracy".

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9. poets.org › poet › sylvia-plathAbout Sylvia Plath | Academy of American Poets

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   Learn about the life and work of Sylvia Plath, a prominent Confessional poet and the author of The Bell Jar. Explore her poems, such as \"Daddy\" and \"Lady Lazarus\", and her Pulitzer Prize-winning collection, The Collected Poems.

10. www.bbc.com › culture › articleSylvia Plath: Will the poet always be defined by her death? - BBC

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    Jul 21, 2021 · Since Sylvia Plath died in 1963, she's been turned into a crudely tragic symbol. As she inspires more biographies, will we ever get closer to the 'real' Plath, asks Lillian Crawford. When a female ...