Middlebrook, Diane Wood. Anne Sexton: A Biography. Houghton Mifflin, 1991.
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death | Anne Sexton | She had made a series of suicide attempts that year, thwarted by friends or by random strangers. Middlebrook, Diane Wood. Anne Sexton: A Biography. Houghton Mifflin, 1991. 391-3 qtd. in Middlebrook, Diane Wood. Anne Sexton: A Biography. Houghton Mifflin, 1991. 396 |
Education | Anne Sexton | In 1958 AS
joined John Holmes
's poetry class at the Boston Center for Adult Education
(also attended by Maxine Kumin
and Ruth Soter
). In September 1958 she enrolled in Robert Lowell
's poetry... |
Friends, Associates | Tillie Olsen | TO
made many personal friendships with writers; Hannah Green
, who was fifteen years younger, acted as her mentor. Reid, Panthea. Tillie Olsen: One Woman, Many Riddles. Rutgers University Press, 2010. 198 |
Friends, Associates | Anne Sexton | AS
made many friends among her fellow poets: Kumin
, Soter
, William DeWitt Snodgrass
, Sylvia Plath
(whose death affected her deeply), George Starbuck
and James Wright
(who were also her lovers), and Anthony Hecht |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anne Sexton | Shortly before this she had watched British critic I. A. Richards
on tv explicating the form of the sonnet. She thought, Well, I could do that. She was soon revelling in Dr Orne
's approval... |
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. qtd. in Middlebrook, Diane Wood. Anne Sexton: A Biography. Houghton Mifflin, 1991. 366 |
Occupation | Anne Sexton | She continued for the rest of her life her highly successful poetry classes at Boston University
. In September 1972 she was appointed a half-time full professor there, with a salary of $10,000 for a... |
Textual Features | Germaine Greer | Women are a minority here, but well represented: Fleur Adcock
, Anna Letitia Barbauld
, Amy Clampitt
, Olive Custance (Lady Alfred Douglas)
, Emily Dickinson
, Freda Downie
, U. A. Fanthorpe
, Vicki Feaver |
Textual Production | Anne Sexton | AS
collaborated with Maxine Kumin
on four books forHoughton Mifflin children from Eggs of Things, 1963, to The Wizard's Tears, 1975. “Anne Sexton 1928-1974”. Poetry Foundation. Sexton, Anne. A Self-Portrait in Letters. Editors Sexton, Linda Gray and Lois Ames, Houghton Mifflin, 1977. 395 |
Textual Production | Anne Sexton | Maxine Kumin
provided a foreword to The Complete Poems of Anne Sexton. OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
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