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 | 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 | 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. Middlebrook, Diane Wood. Anne Sexton: A Biography. Houghton Mifflin, 1991. 366 |
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
. Middlebrook, Diane Wood. Anne Sexton: A Biography. Houghton Mifflin, 1991. 163 |
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