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About Sylvia Plath
American poet and author
Sylvia Plath was an American poet and author. She helped shape confessional poetry and is best known for work that brought private experience into sharp literary focus. Her books include The Colossus and Other Poems, Ariel, and The Bell Jar, a semi-autobiographical novel published shortly before her death. Her Collected Poems appeared in 1981 with previously unpublished work, and that collection won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1982, awarded to her posthumously.
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- “How we need another soul to cling to, another body to keep us warm. To rest and trust; to give your soul in c…”Sylvia Plath
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- “Art doesn't spring from the muses alone, but from hard work.”Tom Rachman
- “At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.”Jean de la Bruyere
- “We have talked about Suzy and about her last days, but it's as if our lives stopped then and there. If I say…”Nancy E. Turner
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Books by Sylvia Plath
The Bell Jar
2006
Ariel
1965
Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams
1975
The bed book
1976
Collected Poems
1981