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Sylvia Plath (/ p l æ θ /; 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, a semi-autobiographical novel published shortly before her suicide in 1963.
The list below includes the poems in the US version of the collection, published by Heinemann in 1960. [1] This omits several poems from the first UK edition, published by Faber & Faber in 1967, [2] including five of the seven sections of "Poem for a Birthday", only two of which ("Flute Notes from a Reedy Pond" and "The Stones") are included in the US edition.
Other key texts of the American "confessional" school of poetry include Plath's Ariel, Berryman's The Dream Songs, and Sexton's To Bedlam and Part Way Back, though Berryman himself rejected the label "with rage and contempt": "The word doesn't mean anything. I understand the confessional to be a place where you go and talk with a priest.
The poem was written while Plath was residing with her two young children at the Hughes family estate in Devon, England in early 1963. The domestic chores dealing with childcare, in particular an infant, placed restrictions on her writing. At the time, she had no intimate associate or family member to help her with maternal duties. [2]
Writing for Rolling Stone, Ryan Reed called the track "mournful" and a meditation on "religion, family, alienation and the myths that surround celebrity". [1] Nick Reilly of NME said the song features Del Rey "delivering one of her most confessional offerings to date as she compares herself to troubled poetry icon Sylvia Plath". [10]
The Bell Jar is the only novel written by the American writer and poet Sylvia Plath.Originally published under the pseudonym "Victoria Lucas" in 1963, the novel is supposedly semi-autobiographical with the names of places and people changed.
Editing – American Poetry Now: A Selection of the Best Poems by Modern American Writers, appended to Critical Quarterly Poetry Supplement, number 2 in 1961; Sylvia Plath Reads, Harper Audio 2000 [1] Plath Reads Plath – 1975, Released as a gramophone record by Credo Records and on Compact Disc by Harper Audio in 2000 The Art of Sylvia Plath ...
Robert Lowell's Life Studies, an autobiographical suite of poems detailing Lowell's upbringing and personal family life, is often regarded as the seminal confessional work. [20] Other important works of confessional writing include Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar , a roman à clef of Plath's descent into depression and suicide attempts while ...