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Sylvia Plath

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Sylvia Plath was an American poet, novelist, and short-story writer. She is credited with advancing the genre of confessional poetry and is best known for two of her published collections, The Colossus and Other Poems and Ariel, as well as The Bell Jar, a semi-autobiographical novel published shortly before her death. In 1982, she won a posthumous Pulitzer Prize for The Collected Poems.

Born

Boston, Massachusetts, USA on 27th October 1932

Died

11th February 1963

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Sylvia Plath: Inside The Bell Jar Image
Sylvia Plath: Inside The Bell Jar
Self - Writer (voice) (archive footage)
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The Lady in the Book - Sylvia Plath, portraits
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Great Poets: In Their Own Words Image
Great Poets: In Their Own Words
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Ted Hughes: Stronger Than Death Image
Ted Hughes: Stronger Than Death
Voices & Visions: Sylvia Plath Image
Voices & Visions: Sylvia Plath
Herself (Archive)
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Lady Lazarus
Narrator (voice) (archive footage)
Sylvia Plath reading poems from Ariel Image
Sylvia Plath reading poems from Ariel
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Epilogue Image
Epilogue
voice (archive footage)