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Sylvia Plath

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Also known as Victoria Lucas, Sylvia Plath Hughes

American poet and writer (1932–1963)

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Sylvia Plath was a female poet from the United States who lived from 27 October 1932 to 11 February 1963. She also wrote under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas. Her literary output includes works such as *Light blue, dark blue*, *The Best American Short Stories 1973*, and *Bell Jar (SparkNotes Literature Guide)*. She is recognized in the Pulitzer Prize collection.

Plath’s work is associated with tags including poetry, spoken word, and literature. She is similar to artists such as Anne Sexton, Ted Hughes, Robert Frost, T. S. Eliot, and Edna St. Vincent Millay. Her writings have been referenced by 880 other encyclopedia articles.

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Person · Open Library

Born
27 October 1932
Died
11 February 1963
Works
185

Top works

  • Ariel
  • Light blue, dark blue
  • The Best American Short Stories 1973
  • Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--The American Experience
  • Selections from her poetry on typed sheets

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Female
Origin
United States
Active from
1932-10-27
Active to
1963-02-11
poet

Discography

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
18,168
Total plays
227,835

Tags

poetryspoken wordliteraturedeceasedfemale vocalists

Similar artists

Anne SextonTed HughesRobert FrostT. S. EliotEdna St. Vincent Millay

Sylvia Plath (October 27, 1932 – February 11, 1963) was an American poet, novelist, short story writer, and essayist. Plath was married to fellow poet Ted Hughes, with whom she had two children, Frieda and Nicholas. She had suffered from depression throughout her life, surviving numerous suicide attempts, but finally ended her life in 1963. Her last work, 'Ariel' is often considered to be her best work. She won the Pulitzer Prize posthumously, in 1982. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Sylvia+Plath">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

    · 2018 · cited 10,992x

  2. Global, regional, and national burden of stroke and its risk factors, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

    · 2021 · cited 6,844x

  3. Global, regional, and national age-sex-specific mortality for 282 causes of death in 195 countries and territories, 1980–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

    · 2018 · cited 6,184x

  4. Global aetiology and epidemiology of type 2 diabetes mellitus and its complications

    · 2017 · cited 4,791x

  5. The Immune Landscape of Cancer

    · 2018 · cited 4,770x

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Quotes

  • “Being born a woman is my awful tragedy.”
  • “I am jealous of men. I envy the man his physical freedom to lead a double life.”
  • “How frail the human heart must be —a mirrored pool of thought.”
  • “I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;I lift my lids and all is born again.”
  • “What did my fingers do before they held him?What did my heart do, with its love?”
  • “So many of us!So many of us!We are shelves, we areTables, we are meek,We are edible,Nudgers and shoversIn spite of ourselves.Our kind multiplies:We shall by morningInherit the earth.Our foot's in the door.”

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Encyclopedic overview

Sylvia Plath (October 27, 1932 – February 11, 1963) was an American poet and author. She is credited with advancing the genre of confessional poetry and is best known for The Colossus and Other Poems (1960), Ariel (1965), and The Bell Jar (1963), a semi-autobiographical novel published one month before her suicide. The Collected Poems was published in 1981, which included previously unpublished works. For this collection Plath was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1982, making her the fourth person to receive this honor posthumously.

Born in Jamaica Plain, Boston, Massachusetts, Plath graduated from Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, and then the University of Cambridge in England, where she was a Fulbright student at Newnham College. In 1959, Plath took a creative writing seminar taught by Robert Lowell at Boston University, alongside poets Anne Sexton and George Starbuck. Within this seminar, Plath, Lowell and Sexton, whilst starting with very different writing styles, each gravitated towards a new style of poetry dubbed confessional for its use of personal experience and its tendency to use a direct form of address. She married fellow poet Ted Hughes in 1956 in London. In 1957, they briefly moved to the United States, but moved back to England in the winter of 1959.

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