Sylvia Plath

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Sylvia Plath
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Sylvia Plath (27 October 1932 – 11 Februar 1963) wis a American poet, novelist an short story writer. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, she studiet at Smith College an Newnham College, Cambrig, afore receivin acclaim as a profeesional poet an writer. She marriet fellae poet Ted Hughes in 1956 an thay livit thegither first in the Unitit States an then Ingland, haein twa childer thegither, Frieda an Nicholas. Plath suffered frae depression for hintle o her adult life,[1] an in 1963 she committit suicide.[2] Controversy continues tae surroond the events of her life and daith, as well as her writing and legacy.

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Plath is creditit wi advancin the genre o confessional poetry an is best kent for her twa publisht collections, The Colossus and Other Poems an Ariel. In 1982, she wan a Pulitzer Prize posthumously, for The Collected Poems. She wrote The Bell Jar an aw, a semi-autobiographical novel published shortly afore her daith.[3]

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Leet o wirks

Poetry collections

  • The Colossus and Other Poems (1960, William Heinemann)
  • Ariel (1965, Faber and Faber)
  • Three Women: A Monologue for Three Voices (1968, Turret)
  • Crossing the Water (1971)
  • Winter Trees (1971)
  • The Collected Poems (1981)
  • Selected Poems (1985)
  • Plath: Poems (1998)
  • Sylvia Plath Reads, Harper Audio (2000) (Audio)

Collectit prose an novels

  • The Bell Jar: A novel (1963), unner the pseudonym "Victoria Lucas"
  • Letters Home: Correspondence 1950–1963 (1975)
  • Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams: Short Stories, Prose, and Diary Excerpts (1977)
  • The Journals of Sylvia Plath (1982)
  • The Magic Mirror (published 1989), Plath's Smith College senior thesis
  • The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath, editit bi Karen V. Kukil (2000)

Childer's beuks

  • The Bed Book (1976)
  • The It-Doesn't-Matter-Suit (1996)
  • Collected Children's Stories (UK, 2001)
  • Mrs. Cherry's Kitchen (2001)
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