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GET HAPPY.(Richard Wilbur)
In 1953, literary history--acting through the good offices of Edna Ward, of Wellesley, Massachusetts--brought together two of the most gifted, and least similar, American poets of the postwar era. Mrs. Ward was the mother-in-law of Richard Wilbur--at the age of thirty-two, the author of two acclaimed books of verse--and a friend of Aurelia Plath, whose twenty-year-old daughter, Sylvia, had just endured the hellish summer she later chronicled in "The Bell Jar." Wilbur was invited, as he wryly recalls in his poem "Cottage Street, 1953," "to exemplify / The published poet in his happiness, / Thus cheering Sylvia, who has wished to die." Of course, Wilbur's good will could ...
- Confessional poetry & the artifice of honesty.(the marriage of English poet Ted...
- Magazine article from: New Criterion Yezzi, David June 1, 1998 700+ words
...and experience that clings to Plath and to her fellow confessional...Confessionalism, despite Plath's prominent role in it, remains...quieter affair than the Hughes-Plath saga but one that has been no...deemed them) including Richard Wilbur, Donald Justice, Howard Nemerov...
- The Fading Smile: Poets in Boston, from Robert Frost to Robert Lowell to Sylvia...
- Magazine article from: The New Leader Pettingell, Phoebe October 10, 1994 700+ words
...Robert Lowell to Sylvia Plath, 1955-1960 (Knopf...55 Davison also dated Plath. She dumped him before...Cambridge, where Richard Wilbur, W.S. Merwin and...Bacchae of our generation, Plath, Rich and Sexton...The first, Richard Wilbur, achieved a new naturalism...
- Wilbur's Cottage Street, 1953. (analysis of a Richard Wilbur poem)
- The Explicator Wai, Isabella March 22, 1996 700+ words
...Edna Ward.(1) Sylvia Plath and her mother were also there. Wilbur notes: Edna Ward was...aesthetic stance and that of Plath. Wilbur wittily denounces the...this collection. 2. Wilbur 111n. 3. Sylvia Plath, Ariel (New York: Harper...
- Plath, domesticity, and the art of advertising.(Sylvia Plath)(Critical Essay)
- Magazine article from: College Literature Bryant, Marsha June 22, 2002 700+ words
Sylvia Plath is not only one of America's major poets...New Yorker ran a full-page blowup of the Plath most ingrained in our collective memory...advertising model instead of a famous poet, this Plath hooks the reader to sample a new and improved...
- PLATH BOOK SPARES US THE ROMANCE.(Entertainment/Weekend/Spotlight)
- Newspaper article from: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO) Thorn^, Patti November 15, 2003 700+ words
...Thorn ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS Looks like Sylvia Plath is chic again. The movie is out, and...to the mix an important new book about Plath and her husband, poet Ted Hughes (Her...wrote about his tortured relationship with Plath, and you have a convergence of facts that...
- Plath's LADY LAZARUS.(Sylvia Plath)(Brief Article)(Critical Essay)
- The Explicator CURLEY, MAUREEN June 22, 2001 700+ words
Sylvia Plath provided a self-explication of her own...very resourceful woman. (294) Clearly in Plath's view, the speaker in "Lady Lazarus...Furthermore, it may highlight the losses that Plath has experienced--losses she chose as...
- Sylvia Plath: three bee notes. (Essays).(the influence of bees on Sylvia...
- ANQ Gordon, John June 22, 2003 700+ words
Like Otto Plath, Adolf Hitler's father, Alois Hitler...information was in circulation during Sylvia Plath's lifetime, before she wrote her bee...45). I suggest that, along with Otto Plath's German ancestry, knowledge of this...
- Sylvia Plath: a biography.
- Magazine article from: The Nation Middlebrook, Diane Wood November 28, 1987 700+ words
SYLVIA PLATH, A BIOGRAPHY. By Linda Wagner-Martin...the first childbearing years. The Sylvia Plath of this biography mostly was: all preface...Denied permission to quote at length from Plath's writing, Linda Wagner-Martin approaches...
