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Biography

Name: Anne Sexton
Variant Name: Anne Gray Harvey
Birth Date: November 9, 1928
Death Date: October 4, 1974
Place of Birth: Newton, Massachusetts, United States
Place of Death: Weston, Massachusetts, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Female
Occupations: poet

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Biography of Anne Sexton
706 words, approx. 2 pages
A contemporary American poet, Anne Sexton (1928-1974) was best known for the relentlessly autobiographical nature of her poetry and for her personal "confessional" voice, which led some fans to believe, mistakenly, that everything she wrote had...
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Biography of Anne Sexton
7,209 words, approx. 24 pages
Anne Sexton was a confessional poet; that is, she wrote poetry out of the most intimate and painful details of her life. To a certain extent every poet does this, but few have done so with the frankness and audacity of this one. Sexton presented the...
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Biography of Anne (Harvey) Sexton
4,955 words, approx. 17 pages
Anne Sexton began writing poetry at age twenty-eight as a form of psychotherapy during treatment for a clinical depression. By the time of her suicide at age forty-five she had become a major figure in postwar American poetry. Her work was intimate,...


Quotations
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Anne Sexton Quotes
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Anne Sexton ( 1928-11-09 – 1974-10-04 ), born Anne Gray Harvey, was an American poet and writer. She won the Pulitzer Prize in poetry in 1967 for Live or Die. Contents 1 Sourced 1.1 To Bedlam and Part Way Back (1960) 1.2 All My Pretty Ones (1962) 1.3...


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Sexton, Anne Summary
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Sexton is among the most celebrated poets of the confessional school. Her highly emotional, self-reflexive verse, characterized by preoccupations with childhood guilt, mental illness, motherhood, and female sexuality, is distinguished for its stunning...
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Anne Sexton Information
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Anne Sexton (November 9, 1928, Newton, Massachusetts – October 4, 1974, Weston, Massachusetts), born Anne Gray Harvey, was an American poet and...


News and Journals
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Plath biographer Middlebrook dies at 68
12/16/2007: 265 words, approx. 1 pages
Diane Middlebrook, a leading feminist scholar who wrote acclaimed biographies of poets Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath, died Saturday. She was 68.Middlebrook, who helped launch feminist studies at Stanford University, where she taught literature for 35 years, died of cancer in San Francisco, according to...
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Tips for taking pictures in the fall
9/24/2007: 311 words, approx. 1 pages
Photographer Ferenc Mate lives in Tuscany, but his latest book portrays the colors and landscapes of the woods, coast, farmhouses and even the doorsteps and porches of New England in the fall.His book, "A New England Autumn: A Sentimental Journey" (Albatross Books/W.W. Norton, $39.95), also...
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Obituaries in the news
12/16/2007: 908 words, approx. 3 pages
Rep. Julia CarsonINDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Rep. Julia Carson, who rose from a childhood of poverty and segregation to become the first black and first woman to represent Indianapolis in Congress, died Saturday. She was 69.Carson died of lung cancer at her home, where she had...
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Artists, entertainers who died in 2007
12/28/2007: 3,654 words, approx. 12 pages
World War II service shaped the lives and careers of authors Norman Mailer and Kurt Vonnegut, and in turn their works were profoundly influential in the Vietnam era.Vonnegut turned his ordeal as a POW during the 1945 allied firebombing of Dresden, Germany, into his 1969...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Diane Wood Middlebrook
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In the following essay, Middlebrook examines Sexton's artistic development from suburban mother to celebrated poet, focusing on the significance of her literary mentors, particularly her relationship with John Holmes.
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Critical Essay by William H. Shurr
6,575 words, approx. 22 pages
In the following essay, Shurr discusses the significance of Sexton's increasing religiosity and impending suicide revealed in The Awful Rowing Toward God.
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Mikhail Ann Long
6,017 words, approx. 20 pages
In the following essay, Long explores the suicidal urge in Anne Sexton's poetry.
 
Featured Essays
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Essay Grade: 96%
Anne Sexton: a Mind of Creativity and Darkness
2,240 words, approx. 8 pages
A comprehensive essay about the life of American poet Anne Sexton. Provides an overviews her life and discusses the personal problems she encountered and her literary success.
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Essay Grade: 88%
Self in 1958 by Anne Sexton
1,647 words, approx. 6 pages
Self In 1958 by Anne Sexton happens to be relevant not just to 1958, but the world we live in today as well. The same issues still apply to the millions of people in the world who experience the same insecurities. Although the ominous signs hide behind the supposed credibility of the media, the traces of the same suppression in this poem still exist today.
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Essay Grade: 88%
Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath: Minds of Distortion or Darkness
1,566 words, approx. 5 pages
This is an essay discussing the parallels and strange similarities between the lives of poets Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath.
 


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