Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to American Poets
- The Cambridge Companion to American Poets
- The Cambridge Companion to American Poets
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Book part
- Introduction
- 1 “The First Shall Be Last”: Apology and Redemption in the Work of the First New England Poets, Anne Bradstreet and Edward Taylor
- 2 Phillis Wheatley
- 3 The Historical Epic, Women’s Poetry, and Early American Verse
- 4 The Fire This Time: Longfellow, Lowell, Holmes, Whittier
- 5 Ralph Waldo Emerson
- 6 Edgar Allan Poe
- 7 Walt Whitman
- 8 Melville the Poet
- 9 Forever Young: Rereading Emily Dickinson in the Twenty-First Century
- 10 Paul Laurence Dunbar
- 11 Edwin Arlington Robinson
- 12 Robert Frost
- 13 Gertrude Stein
- 14 Wallace Stevens
- 15 William Carlos Williams
- 16 Ezra Pound
- 17 Marianne Moore
- 18 T. S. Eliot and American Poetry
- 19 Hart Crane’s Visionary Company
- 20 The New Negro Renaissance
- 21 Langston Hughes
- 22 Elizabeth Bishop
- 23 Gwendolyn Brooks
- 24 The Three Voices of Robert Lowell
- 25 The Black Mountain School
- 26 Jack Spicer
- 27 Allen Ginsberg: Irreverent, Reverential, and Apocalyptic American Poet
- 28 Anne Sexton, Sylvia Plath and Confessional Poetry
- 29 “Street Musicians”: Frank O’Hara and John Ashbery
- 30 Adrienne Rich: The Poetry of Witness
- 31 An “Empty Prescription”: Pleasure in Contemporary American Poetry
- Further Reading
- Index
- Series page
- References
28 - Anne Sexton, Sylvia Plath and Confessional Poetry
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Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to American Poets
- The Cambridge Companion to American Poets
- The Cambridge Companion to American Poets
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Book part
- Introduction
- 1 “The First Shall Be Last”: Apology and Redemption in the Work of the First New England Poets, Anne Bradstreet and Edward Taylor
- 2 Phillis Wheatley
- 3 The Historical Epic, Women’s Poetry, and Early American Verse
- 4 The Fire This Time: Longfellow, Lowell, Holmes, Whittier
- 5 Ralph Waldo Emerson
- 6 Edgar Allan Poe
- 7 Walt Whitman
- 8 Melville the Poet
- 9 Forever Young: Rereading Emily Dickinson in the Twenty-First Century
- 10 Paul Laurence Dunbar
- 11 Edwin Arlington Robinson
- 12 Robert Frost
- 13 Gertrude Stein
- 14 Wallace Stevens
- 15 William Carlos Williams
- 16 Ezra Pound
- 17 Marianne Moore
- 18 T. S. Eliot and American Poetry
- 19 Hart Crane’s Visionary Company
- 20 The New Negro Renaissance
- 21 Langston Hughes
- 22 Elizabeth Bishop
- 23 Gwendolyn Brooks
- 24 The Three Voices of Robert Lowell
- 25 The Black Mountain School
- 26 Jack Spicer
- 27 Allen Ginsberg: Irreverent, Reverential, and Apocalyptic American Poet
- 28 Anne Sexton, Sylvia Plath and Confessional Poetry
- 29 “Street Musicians”: Frank O’Hara and John Ashbery
- 30 Adrienne Rich: The Poetry of Witness
- 31 An “Empty Prescription”: Pleasure in Contemporary American Poetry
- Further Reading
- Index
- Series page
- References
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- The Cambridge Companion to American Poets , pp. 379 - 390Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2015
References
Further Reading
Britzolakis, Christina, Sylvia Plath and the Theatre of Mourning (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999).Google Scholar
Broe, Mary Lynn, Protean Poetic: The Poetry of Sylvia Plath (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1980).Google Scholar
Colburn, Steven E., ed., Anne Sexton: Telling the Tale (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1988).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Gill, Jo, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Sylvia Plath (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Gill, Jo, ed., Anne Sexton’s Confessional Poetics (Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2007).Google Scholar
Lant, Kathleen Margaret, “The Big Strip Tease: Female Bodies and Male Power in the Poetry of Sylvia Plath,” Contemporary Literature 34.4 (Winter 1993): 620–669.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Middlebrook, Diane Wood, “What Was Confessional Poetry?,” in The Columbia History of American Poetry, eds. Parini, Jay and Millier, Brett C. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1993): 632–649.Google Scholar
Newman, Charles, ed., The Art of Sylvia Plath (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1970).Google Scholar
Phillips, Robert, The Confessional Poets (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1973).Google Scholar