Sylvia Plath Research Paper
* NAME: Sylvia Plath * OCCUPATION: Academic, Editor, Author, Poet * BIRTH DATE: October 27, 1932 * DEATH DATE: February 11, 1963 * EDUCATION: Smith College, Cambridge University * PLACE OF BIRTH: Boston, Massachusetts * PLACE OF DEATH: London, England
Sylvia Plath was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on October 27, 1932. Plath met and married British poet Ted Hughes, although the two later split. The depressive Plath committed suicide in 1963, garnering accolades after her death for the novel The Bell Jar, and the poetry collections "The Colossus" and "Ariel." In 1982, Plath became the first person to win a posthumous Pulitzer Prize.
A Fulbright Fellowship brought Sylvia Plath to Cambridge University in England. While studying at the university's Newnham College, she met the poet Ted Hughes. The two married in 1956 and had a stormy relationship. In 1957, Plath spent time in Massachusetts to study with poet Robert Lowell and met fellow poet and student Ann Sexton. She also taught English at Smith College around that same time. Plath returned to England in 1959. …show more content…
That same year, she gave birth to her first child, a daughter named Freida. Two years later, Plath and Hughes welcomed a second child, a son named Nicholas. Unfortunately, the couple's marriage was failing apart.
October 27, 1932 – February 11, 1963
The Colossus,1960; The Bell Jar, 1963; Ariel, 1965; Crossing the Water; transitional poems, 1971; Winter Trees, 1971; Letters Home: correspondence, 1950-1963, 1975; The Bed Book,1976; Johnny Panic and the Bible of dreams: short stories, prose, and diary excerpts,1979; The Collected Poems, 1981; The Journals, 1982.
The Poetry of Sylvia Plath. Brennan, Claire (ed.). NY: Columbia UP, 1999.
Ariel: The Restored Edition. Hughes, Frieda (foreword). NY: HarperCollins,
Sylvia Plath was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on October 27, 1932. Plath met and married British poet Ted Hughes, although the two later split. The depressive Plath committed suicide in 1963, garnering accolades after her death for the novel The Bell Jar, and the poetry collections "The Colossus" and "Ariel." In 1982, Plath became the first person to win a posthumous Pulitzer Prize.
A Fulbright Fellowship brought Sylvia Plath to Cambridge University in England. While studying at the university's Newnham College, she met the poet Ted Hughes. The two married in 1956 and had a stormy relationship. In 1957, Plath spent time in Massachusetts to study with poet Robert Lowell and met fellow poet and student Ann Sexton. She also taught English at Smith College around that same time. Plath returned to England in 1959. …show more content…
That same year, she gave birth to her first child, a daughter named Freida. Two years later, Plath and Hughes welcomed a second child, a son named Nicholas. Unfortunately, the couple's marriage was failing apart.
October 27, 1932 – February 11, 1963
The Colossus,1960; The Bell Jar, 1963; Ariel, 1965; Crossing the Water; transitional poems, 1971; Winter Trees, 1971; Letters Home: correspondence, 1950-1963, 1975; The Bed Book,1976; Johnny Panic and the Bible of dreams: short stories, prose, and diary excerpts,1979; The Collected Poems, 1981; The Journals, 1982.
The Poetry of Sylvia Plath. Brennan, Claire (ed.). NY: Columbia UP, 1999.
Ariel: The Restored Edition. Hughes, Frieda (foreword). NY: HarperCollins,