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The confessional poets also worked in opposition to the idealization of domesticity in the 1950s, by revealing unhappiness in their own homes. [5] The school of "confessional poetry" was associated with poets who redefined American poetry in the 1950s and 1960s, including Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath, John Berryman, Anne Sexton, and W. D. Snodgrass.
Confessional writing is a literary style and genre that developed in American writing schools following the Second World War. [1] [2] A prominent mode of confessional writing is confessional poetry, which emerged in the 1950s and 1960s.
Confessional poetry was an American movement that emerged in the late 1950s and the 1960s. They drew on personal history for their artistic inspiration . Poets in this group include Sylvia Plath , Anne Sexton , John Berryman , and Robert Lowell .
Poetry as Confession' was an influential 1959 article written by M. L. Rosenthal, reviewing the poetry collection Life Studies by Robert Lowell. The review is credited with being the first application of the term of confession to an approach to the writing of poetry.
In the English-language modernism ends with the turn towards confessional poetry in the work of Robert Lowell and Sylvia Plath, among others. [10] Poets, like Robert Frost , Wallace Stevens , and E. E. Cummings also went on to produce work after World War II.
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