English Literature / Unit 17 ENL 1624 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Sylvia Plath in England
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The idea
Sylvia Plath, an American poet who lived in England with Hughes, advanced confessional poetry, writing from intensely personal experience. Her works include The Colossus, The Bell Jar and Ariel, published after her death in nineteen sixty-three. Her Collected Poems won a Pulitzer Prize.
In practice
Confessional poetry.
Where people slip
Plath was American.
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