In the case of George Starbuck
a love-affair was succeeded by a longer-lived friendship. In the case of James Wright
the friendship and the love-affair developed together, but ended with Wright withdrawing.
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Textual Features
Anne Sexton
She titled the volume from the words of Shakespeare
's character Macduff when he hears of the murder of his wife and children; this borrowing was suggested by James Wright
.
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In the title...
Intertextuality and Influence
Anne Sexton
AS
wrote these thirty-nine poems in a period of twenty days, with two days out for despair and three days out in a mental hospital, in January 1973.
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