Anne Sexton
(1928 - 1974)
American poet, playwright, author of children's books, short story writer, and essayist.
Anne Sexton: Introduction
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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 frankne...
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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 i...
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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 believ...
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Biography EssayAnne 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 w...
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On what I imagine would be a dark day, November 9th, 1928, the dark, intelligent, and brilliant mind known as Anne Sexton was born in the small town of Newton, Massachusetts. She was the daughter of ...
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Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath were both great minds, creative individuals, and some of the greatest poetic individuals of the twentieth century. Though Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath were great poets...
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Throughout time, literature and its artists have had to accomplish something different and special that most screen players and screen writers will never have to do. Writers have to be able to write m...
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When I first discovered the poem, "Self in 1958" by Anne Sexton, my head filled with the images of life-sized plastic Barbies littering the streets of the city with their plastic Kens and convertibl...
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