Sylvia Plath

Sylvia Plath (October 27, 1932 – February 11, 1963) was an American poet, novelist and essay writer. Although she is primarily known for her poetry, Plath also fame with her semi-autobiographical novel The Bell Jar ("The bell jar"), detailing her struggle with depression detail. After her suicide, she has become an icon for many.



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[hide] *1 Life  ==Life[ Edit] == Sylvia Plath was born in Jamaica Plain, a suburb of Boston. Her talent early on expressed, she wrote her first poem when she was eight years old. Her father, Otto Plath, Professor of zoology and German, and author of a book about bumblebees, died around that time, on 5 October 1940. Plath put her literary aspirations by, tried poems and stories in American magazines published and garnered some success.
 * 2 Work
 * 3 Bibliography
 * 3.1 Poetry
 * 3.2 Prose
 * 3.3 children's books
 * 4 others about Sylvia Plath
 * 5 external links

Sylvia suffered during her entire adult life to a severe form of depression, a bipolar disorder. In 1950, she was with a scholarship admitted to Smith College, but already in her first year of study she did a suicide attempt. They came under treatment of a mental institution (McLean Hospital) and seemed to recover. She graduated cum laude In 1955.

Plath again got a scholarship, this time to the University of Cambridge to study. There, too, she wrote poems, which occasionally were published in the student newspaper Varsity . In Cambridge she met the English poet Ted Hughes, with whom she married on June 16, 1956. Plath and Hughes lived from July 1957 to October 1959 in the United States, where Plath taught at Smith College. In Boston lived Plath readings of Robert Lowell, which would be a major influence on her work. At this time Plath and Hughes also met William Merwin, who admired their work and would be a friend for life. When Sylvia was pregnant the couple moved back to the United Kingdom.

They lived for a while in London and then down into zones North Tawton, a small town in Devon. Her first book of poetry, The Colossus, came in 1960 in England. In February 1961 she got a miscarriage, to which they referred in a number of poems. By marital feud, especially following Hughes ' affair with Assia Wevill, poet Ted and Sylvia lived after the birth of their first child nearly two years separated.

Plath returned with her children Frieda and Nicholas back to London. They rented an apartment in an apartment complex where William Butler Yeats once lived. Plath was here very happy with it and considered it a good omen when she embarked on her divorce procedure. The winter of 1962/1963 was very strict and Sylvia got sick. On 11 February 1963 she suffocated herself with her gas oven. Before she had food and milk for her children daily. She was buried in the graveyard of Heptonstall in West Yorkshire. ==Work[ Edit] == Ted Hughes got the management about Plaths personal and literary inheritance. He destroyed the last part of Sylvia's journal, in which described their time together. In 1982 Plath the first poet who posthumously won a Pulitzer Prize (for The Collected Poems).

Many critics, especially from feminist angle, Hughes accused have upon publication of Plaths work especially to pursue his personal purposes. Hughes has always denied this. In his last poetry collection, Birthday Letters, he finally broke his silence around Sylvia.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Sylvia's mother, Aurelia, by the way, struck a similar accusation Schober Plath, Sylvia's letters to her when she, ''a selection of Letters Home by Sylvia Plath. Correspondence 1950 — 1963'', issued (1975). Aurelia would have made a choice that especially herself in a favorable light suggested.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Although Plaths first book, The Colossus, was generally well received by the critics, is also called said that it is rather conventional and the drama is missing that expressed so strongly in her later work. How much influence Hughes had on Plaths work is subject of discussion. Plaths poems have a unique voice and the similarities between the work of both poets are not very large.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The poems in the collection Ariel mark a break with Plaths previous work. Probably have played a role in the lessons of Lowell. Be that as it may, the bundle has a very dramatic effect, especially by the extremely sincere and intimate descriptions of Sylvia's psychological state and the autobiographical poems (including Daddy in which she depicts her father for his early death as a traitor). Plaths work is often associated with that of Anne Sexton, who like Sylvia strongly influenced by Robert Lowell. Despite the many criticisms and biographies that have appeared after her death seems the discussion on Plaths work often on a fight between readers who choose Sylvia's side and readers who stand behind Hughes. The bitterness that some people cherish towards Hughes is reflected in many attempts at Hughes ' name of Sylvia's tombstone to remove. ==Bibliography<span class="mw-editsection" len="331" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ===Poetry<span class="mw-editsection" len="325" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ===Prose<span class="mw-editsection" len="324" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ===Children's Books<span class="mw-editsection" len="331" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ==Others about Sylvia Plath<span class="mw-editsection" len="344" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ==External links<span class="mw-editsection" len="332" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==
 * The Colossus (1960)
 * Ariel (1965)
 * Crossing the Water (1971)
 * Winter Trees (1972)
 * The Collected Poems (1981)
 * The Bell Jar (The bell jar) (1963), under the pseudonym "Victoria Lucas"
 * Letters Home (1975), written and composed by her mother
 * Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams (1977)
 * The Journals of Sylvia Plath (1982)
 * The Magic Mirror (1989), Plaths final papers at Smith College
 * The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath (2000), edited by Karen v. Kukil
 * The Bed Book (1976)
 * The It-Doesn't-Matter-Suit (1996)
 * Collected children's Stories (2001)
 * Mrs. Cherry's Kitchen (2001)
 * Ronald Hayman wrote a biography, The Death and Life of Sylvia Plath, published in 1991;
 * The film Sylvia (film) (directed by Christine Jeffs, 2003) paints a picture of the problematic relationship of the poets couple;
 * The American singer-songwriter Ryan Adams wrote the song Sylvia Plath that appeared on his album Gold;
 * Sylvia Plath on Poets.org: biography, poems, essays and links (site of the Academy of American Poets)
 * Sylvia Plath-forum