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Sylvia Plath

(1932 – 1963)

American writer whose best-known poems are carefully crafted pieces noted for their personal imagery and intense focus. Plath wrote only two books before her suicide at the age of 31. Her posthumous Ariel (1965) stunned the literary world with its power. Plath was born in Boston as the daughter of German immigrant parents. Her father was a professor of biology at Boston University, and had specialized in bees. He died in 1940 when Plath was eight years old. Plath studied at Gamaliel Bradford Senior High School and at the Smith College from 1950 to 1955. Letters Home (1975), edited by Plath’s mother, reveals a portrait of a young woman driven by hopes for the highest success, alternating with moods Of deep depression.

Her first awarded story Sunday at the Mintons, was published in the magazine Mademoiselle 1952 while she was still at college. In 1953 Plath worked on the college editorial board of the same magazine and suffered her first mental breakdown, which led to a suicide attempt. She described this period of her life in The Bell Jar, her autobiographical novel, which was published under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas in 1963. The book is considered a powerful exploration of the restricted roles of women. With J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye, it is recognised as a classic of adolescent angst. In 1956 she met the poet Ted Hughes, whom she married a year later. Plath’s early poetry was based, on the then current styles of refined and ironic verse. Under the influence of her husband, and the work. of Dylan Thomas and Gerald Manley Hopkins, she -greatly developed her talents. From 1958 to 1959 she worked as a clerk in Boston and studied poetry at Robert Lowell’s course. In 1959 Plath once again returned to England. In 1963 appeared her well-known poems, Lady Lazarus and Daddy, in which Plath expanded the boundaries intimate expression. When Ted Hughes abandoned her for Assia Wevill, Plath com-mitted suicide in London on January 7, 1963. Tragically, Assia Wevill also killed herself in the same fashion – asphyxiation by gas fumes from a domestic oven. Plath’s gravestone is in Yorkshire. During her career as writer Plath was loosely linked to the confessional poets, a term used to describe Robert Lowell, Anne Sex-ton (1928-74, committed suicide), and John Berryman, among others. Her literary reputation rests mainly on her poetry, particularly the verses that she composed in the months leading up to her death. Plath has been considered a starkly honest poet, who verbalized the experience of psychological disorder arid explored deeply the theme of the woman-victim in a patriarchal society