sylvia plath

     

Sylvia Plath (October 27, 1932 – February 11, 1963) was an American poet, novelist, an short story writer.

Trivia about sylvia plath

  • One of her poems says, "I was ten when they buried you. At twenty I tried to die and get back, back, back to you"
  • In the '50s, she taught English at Smith College, then worked as a secretary at a Boston psychiatric clinic
  • This author of the poem "Daddy" committed suicide in 1963, before she could work out her parental issues
  • This poet first published her novel, "The Bell Jar", under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas
  • Her early 1960s poem "Lady Lazarus" tells of her attempted suicide
  • This troubled poet, an alumna of Smith College, used the pseudonym Victoria Lucas
  • "Crossing the Water", a collection of her poems, was published posthumously in 1971
  • "Crossing the Water" & "Winter Trees" are 2 posthumous collections by this "Bell Jar" author
  • In her "The Bell Jar", Doreen is picked up by Lenny Shepherd, a New York disk jockey
  • In this poet's only novel, "The Bell Jar", she related the coming of age of Esther Greenwood
  • A month after "The Bell Jar" was published in 1963, she took her own life
  • Her husband Ted Hughes edited her posthumously published "Collected Poems"
  • This suicidal poet once stayed at the Barbizon, which she fictionalized as the Amazon in "The Bell Jar"
  • Writer & artist Frieda Hughes is the daughter of Ted Hughes & this poet who committed suicide
  • 18 years after her suicide, she was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for her collected poems
  • She wrote, "Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell"
  • The "jar" was half-full on June 16, 1956 when she married British poet Ted Hughes
  • "Bitter Fame", a controversial 1989 biography, deals with this poet, her suffering & breakdown
  • Anne Sexton was acquainted with & influenced by this fellow Massachusetts-born suicidal female poet
  • Esther Greenwood is an aspiring poet in this poet's novel "The Bell Jar"
  • Ted Hughes' 1998 "Birthday Letters" is a collection of poems regarding this late wife of his
  • Gwyneth Paltrow was this poet, struggling with depression & hubby Ted Hughes
  • Her poem "Lady Lazarus" says, "Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well"
  • In 1982, nearly 20 years after her untimely death, her "Collected Poems" won a Pulitzer Prize
  • Gwyneth Paltrow portrayed her in the early days of her marriage to fellow poet Ted Hughes