Sylvia Plath (1932–1963)
Autor(a) de The Bell Jar
About the Author
Sylvia Plath's best poetry was produced, tragically, as she pondered self-destruction---in her poems as well as her life---and she eventually committed suicide. She had an extraordinary impact on British as well as American poetry in the few years before her death, and affected many poets, mostrar mais particularly women, in the generation after. She is a confessional poet, influenced by the approach of Robert Lowell. Born in Boston, a graduate of Smith College, Plath attended Newnham College, Cambridge University, on a Fulbright Fellowship and married the British poet Ted Hughes. Of her first collection,The Colossus and Other Poems (1962), the Times Literary Supplement remarked, "Plath writes from phrase to phrase as well as with an eye on the larger architecture of the poem; each line, each sentence is put together with a good deal of care for the springy rhythm, the arresting image and---most of all, perhaps---the unusual word." Plath's second book of poetry, Ariel, written in 1962 in a last fever of passionate creative activity, was published posthumously in 1965 and explores dimensions of women's anger and sexuality in groundbreaking new ways. Plath's struggles with women's issues, in the days before the second wave of American feminism, became legendary in the 1970s, when a new generation of women readers and writers turned to her life as well as her work to understand the contradictory pressures of ambitious and talented women in the 1950s. The Bell Jar---first published under a pseudonym in 1963 and later issued under Plath's own name in England in 1966---is an autobiographical novel describing an ambitious young woman's efforts to become a "real New York writer" only to sink into mental illness and despair at her inability to operate within the narrow confines of traditional feminine expectations. Plath was posthumously awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1982. In recent years, there have been a number of biographies and critical evaluations of Plath's work. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Disambiguation Notice:
(eng) Also published under the name Sylvia Plath Hughes and Victoria Lucas. Please do not combine this author page with the author page for Plath, as there are other authors with that surname. thank you.
Obras por Sylvia Plath
Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams: Short Stories, Prose, and Diary Excerpts (1977) 1,424 exemplares
Stings: Original Drafts of the Dreams of the Poem Facsimile Reproduced from the Sylvia Plath Collection at Smith… (1983) 7 exemplares
American Poetry Now: A Selection of the Best Poems by Modern American Writers (Critical Quarterly Poetry Supplement,… (1961) 7 exemplares
Mad Girl's Love Song 4 exemplares
Le muse inquietanti e altre poesie 3 exemplares
3 storie per bambini 3 exemplares
Fiesta Melons 2 exemplares
Terno Tanto Faz Como Tanto Fez, O 2 exemplares
The Poetry of Sylvia Plath 2 exemplares
The Bell Jar and Other Works by Sylvia Plath: The Colossus, Ariel, Collected Poems and Juvenilia 2 exemplares
Uncollected poems 1 exemplar
Kambana e qelqtë 1 exemplar
Child: [poem] 1 exemplar
The green rock 1 exemplar
A day in June: An uncollected short story 1 exemplar
ZÉ SUSTO E A BÍBLIA DOS SONHOS 1 exemplar
The Prose of Sylvia Plath 1 exemplar
رسائل سيلفيا بلاث 1940 - 1963 1 exemplar
Noveller 1 exemplar
Poesia reunida 1 exemplar
Johnny Panic e a Biblia de Sonhos - e outros textos em prosa (Em Portugues do Brasil) (2019) 1 exemplar
Ariel și alte poeme 1 exemplar
The Colussus 1 exemplar
Plath letters - Heptonstall 1 exemplar
LADY LAZARUS - POEZI TE ZGJEDHURA 1 exemplar
The World of Sylvia Plath 1 exemplar
Letters of Sylvia Plath 1 exemplar
"The last thing I wanted was infinite security..." (Interpreting Literature - 5th Edition) 1 exemplar
POEMS OF SYLVIA PLATH 1 exemplar
L'Ombre 1 exemplar
Black Rook in Rainy Weather (included in The Norton Introduction to Literature - 5th Edition) 1 exemplar
Morning Song {poem} 1 exemplar
Initiation 1 exemplar
Plath Sylvia 1 exemplar
Sylvia Plath reads her works 1 exemplar
Pursuit 1 exemplar
Plath, Sylvia Archive 1 exemplar
Above the oxbow 1 exemplar
KAMBANA E QELTQE 1 exemplar
Associated Works
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Contribuidor, algumas edições — 902 exemplares
Sisterhood Is Powerful: An Anthology of Writings from the Women's Liberation Movement (1970) — Contribuidor — 570 exemplares
The Assassin's Cloak: An Anthology of the World's Greatest Diarists (2000) — Contribuidor, algumas edições — 544 exemplares
World Poetry: An Anthology of Verse from Antiquity to Our Time (1998) — Contribuidor — 437 exemplares
From Totems to Hip-Hop: A Multicultural Anthology of Poetry Across the Americas 1900-2002 (2002) — Contribuidor — 171 exemplares
Poetry Speaks Expanded: Hear Poets Read Their Own Work from Tennyson to Plath (2007) — Contribuidor — 147 exemplares
The Graphic Canon, Vol. 3: From Heart of Darkness to Hemingway to Infinite Jest (2013) — Contribuidor — 141 exemplares
An American Album: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Harper's Magazine (2000) — Contribuidor — 129 exemplares
Cape Cod Stories: Tales from Cape Cod, Nantucket, and Martha's Vineyard (1996) — Contribuidor — 52 exemplares
About Women: An Anthology of Contemporary Fiction, Poetry, and Essays (1973) — Contribuidor — 26 exemplares
Possibilities of Poetry: An Anthology of American Contemporaries (1970) — Contribuidor — 17 exemplares
In'hui, No.9 — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome legal
- Hughes, Sylvia Plath
- Outros nomes
- Lucas, Victoria
- Data de nascimento
- 1932-10-27
- Data de falecimento
- 1963-02-11
- Localização do túmulo
- Heptonstall Parish Churchyard, West Yorkshire, England, UK,
- Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Local de falecimento
- London, England, UK
- Causa da morte
- suicide
- Locais de residência
- Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, USA
Winthrop, Massachusetts, USA
Wellesley, Massachusetts, USA
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
London, England, UK
Devon, England, UK (mostrar todos 8)
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
Northampton, Massachusetts, USA - Educação
- Smith College (AB|English|1955)
Newnham College, Cambridge (MA) - Ocupações
- poet
teacher
novelist
short-story writer - Relações
- Hughes, Ted (echtg.)
Hughes, Frieda (dochter)
Lowell, Robert (docent)
Alvarez, Al (vriend)
Sexton, Anne (vriendin) - Prémios e menções honrosas
- Glascock Poetry Prize (1955)
Fulbright Fellowship (Cambridge, 1955)
Pulitzer Prize (1982)
Fatal error: Call to undefined function isLitsy() in /var/www/html/inc_magicDB.php on line 425- Sylvia Plath (October 27, 1932 – February 11, 1963) was an American poet, novelist, and short-story writer. She is credited with advancing the genre of confessional poetry and is best known for two of her published collections, The Colossus and Other Poems and Ariel, as well as The Bell Jar, a semi-autobiographical novel published shortly before her death. In 1981 The Collected Poems were published, including many previously unpublished works. For this collection Plath was awarded a posthumous Pulitzer Prize in Poetry in 1982, making her the first to receive this honour posthumously.
Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Plath studied at Smith College in Massachusetts and at Newnham College in Cambridge, England. She married fellow poet Ted Hughes in 1956, and they lived together in the United States and then in England. They had two children before separating in 1962.
Plath was clinically depressed for most of her adult life, and was treated multiple times with electroconvulsive therapy. She died by suicide in 1963. - Nota de desambiguação
- Also published under the name Sylvia Plath Hughes and Victoria Lucas.
Please do not combine this author page with the author page for Plath, as there are other authors with that surname. thank you.
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Críticas
Like most young women of my generation, I read The Bell Jar in my early 20s or thereabouts.
It's a wonder we didn't all go out and drown ourselves.
Although i remember the writing, in places, was exquisite, the overall feel of the novel was of descending into a nightmare in which the ordinary experiences of life became alien and terrifying.
It's a wonder we didn't all go out and drown ourselves.
Although i remember the writing, in places, was exquisite, the overall feel of the novel was of descending into a nightmare in which the ordinary experiences of life became alien and terrifying.
Real, ephemeral, brutal, dangerous work.
So, wow, this is my first time reading more than a couple poems by Sylvia Plath. And, since her writing is very much written from personal experience, I also learned a lot more about her as a person. Prior to reading Ariel I pretty much just knew that Plath was a popular poet and writer who was married to another Poet, Ted Hughes, fand that she had suffered from depression and committed suicide at a relatively young age. Once I had read through the first several poems of this book, I quickly realized that I almost needed to look up more info about Plath’s life to gain any kind of understanding of these poems. So, I would often stop after a first or second read of a poem and look up analysis and more info on Plath’s life. In this way I was able to see how a lot of the poems in Ariel really do seem to come directly from specific events and moments of the author’s life.
The introduction given by Plath’s daughter was excellent and being able to see in this edition in particular the differences between how Ted Hughes published this collection and how Plath had originally intended the poems to be included and arranged was very interesting. As far as the writing itself, there’s not much for me to say that hasn’t been said by people far more qualified than me to say them and yet of course I will agree that these poems are excellently written. Sometimes they can be a little difficult to read, particularly for an extended period, considering their topic generally delves into Plath’s seemingly increasing state of depressive and suicidal thought along with poems about her wrath and loss of being cheated on and left behind by her husband, having no one who seems to really understand her, the loss of her father, her miscarriage, and many more such difficult topics.
I would have to say that my favorite poems from this collection are: “Morning Song,” “Ariel,” “The Rival,” “The Jailer,” and “Wintering.”
Ariel: The Restored Edition: A Facsimile of Plath’s Manuscript, Reinstating Her Original Selection and Arrangement by Sylvia Plath: 4/5 ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆… (mais)
The introduction given by Plath’s daughter was excellent and being able to see in this edition in particular the differences between how Ted Hughes published this collection and how Plath had originally intended the poems to be included and arranged was very interesting. As far as the writing itself, there’s not much for me to say that hasn’t been said by people far more qualified than me to say them and yet of course I will agree that these poems are excellently written. Sometimes they can be a little difficult to read, particularly for an extended period, considering their topic generally delves into Plath’s seemingly increasing state of depressive and suicidal thought along with poems about her wrath and loss of being cheated on and left behind by her husband, having no one who seems to really understand her, the loss of her father, her miscarriage, and many more such difficult topics.
I would have to say that my favorite poems from this collection are: “Morning Song,” “Ariel,” “The Rival,” “The Jailer,” and “Wintering.”
Ariel: The Restored Edition: A Facsimile of Plath’s Manuscript, Reinstating Her Original Selection and Arrangement by Sylvia Plath: 4/5 ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆… (mais)
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- Obras
- 126
- Also by
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- Membros
- 46,765
- Popularidade
- #338
- Avaliação
- 4.0
- Críticas
- 664
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This book touches on so many topics, it's impossible to label just one single theme. Mental illness, feminism, reality v. dreaming, and just the overall addressing of the state run mental institutions are still so relevant to today. Additionally having lost my grandmother to dementia and Alzheimer's disease...this book hit close to home for me and help me to better understand , even through an unreliable narrator, what a person goes through when "loosing" one's mind.
I highly recommend this book!!!… (mais)