Middlebrook, Diane Wood. Anne Sexton: A Biography. Houghton Mifflin, 1991.
117-19, 128-33, 148-9
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Family and Intimate relationships | Anne Sexton | 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. Middlebrook, Diane Wood. Anne Sexton: A Biography. Houghton Mifflin, 1991. 117-19, 128-33, 148-9 |
Friends, Associates | Sylvia Plath | In this class Sylvia met and befriended the poet Anne Sexton
, like her a tortured soul, who eventually committed suicide in 1974. Hayman, Ronald. The Death and Life of Sylvia Plath. Heinemann, 1991. 124 Blain, Virginia, Patricia Clements, and Isobel Grundy, editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990. |
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 |
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