Sylvia Plath

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Her rage in the poem "Daddy"--"There's a stake in your fat black heart"--was largely over her father dying in 1940 when she was 8 Sylvia Plath $1,200 DJ DEPRESSING POETRY 2026-02-25 #9508
After a 1953 suicide attempt, she was in the psychiatric wing of Mass. General, where she later worked after she got married Sylvia Plath $800 DJ POETS & POETRY 2025-11-10 #9431
Published in 1965, 2 years after her death, her "Lady Lazarus" says, "Out of the ash / I rise with my red hair" Plath $400 DJ POETS & POETRY 2025-02-04 #9262
A painter & a poet in her own right, Frieda Hughesstill finds herself living in the shadow of herparents, Ted Hughes & her Sylvia Plath $600 J POETIC WOMEN 2024-12-19 #9229
"There's a stake in your fat black heart", she wrote in "Daddy", a searing poem from her posthumous 1965 collection "Ariel" Plath $1,000 J POETRY TEST 2024-06-24 #9131
In 1950 "Bitter Strawberries" by this Boston-born woman became her 1st nationally published poem; not bad for a 17-year-old Sylvia Plath $2,000 DJ PURE POETRY 2023-02-27 #8816
Most of the poems in Ted Hughes' 1998 collection "Birthday Letters" are addressed to her, beginning with "Fulbright Scholars" Plath $2,000 DJ POETRY 2022-02-02 #8568
Prophetically, she wrote in "Lady Lazarus", "Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well" (Sylvia) Plath $1,600 DJ POETRY 2020-04-15 #8203
Herpoem "Lady Lazarus" says, "I'm only 30, and like the cat, I have 9 times to die" (Sylvia) Plath $600 J DEAD POETS' SOCIETY 2018-05-14 #7761
Anne Sexton's elegy for this fellow doomed poet recalls the time "we downed three extra dry martinis in Boston" Sylvia Plath $800 DJ POETS & POETRY 2014-04-30 #6828
"Daddy, I have had to kill you. You died before I had time" (Sylvia) Plath $2,000 DJ NAME THE POET 2010-03-25 #5884
In 1982, nearly 20 years after her untimely death, her "Collected Poems" won a Pulitzer Prize Sylvia Plath $2,000 DJ AMERICAN POETRY 2009-06-24 #5723
One of her poems says, "I was ten when they buried you. At twenty I tried to die and get back, back, back to you" Sylvia Plath FJ POETS 2007-11-02 #5325
This troubled poet, an alumna of Smith College, used the pseudonym Victoria Lucas Sylvia Plath $400 J POETS & POETRY 2006-07-04 #5037
Her early 1960s poem "Lady Lazarus" tells of her attempted suicide Sylvia Plath $400 DJ WOMEN POETS 2006-01-10 #4912
Anne Sexton was acquainted with & influenced by this fellow Massachusetts-born suicidal female poet Sylvia Plath $1,000 J POETRY 2002-12-16 #4211
Her husband Ted Hughes edited her posthumously published "Collected Poems" Sylvia Plath $600 DJ FEMALE POETS 2000-06-20 #3652
"Crossing the Water" & "Winter Trees" are 2 posthumous collections by this "Bell Jar" author Sylvia Plath $500 J POETS & POETRY 1999-06-11 #3415
In 1956 she married British poet Ted Hughes while in England on a Fulbright scholarship Sylvia Plath DD $900 DJ WOMEN POETS 1995-12-19 #2602
This poet's only novel was "The Bell Jar" published in 1963 Sylvia Plath $400 DJ WOMEN POETS 1994-12-01 #2359
This poet first published her novel, "The Bell Jar", under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas Sylvia Plath $300 J POETS 1994-11-22 #2352
The poems in her 1971 collection "Winter Trees" date from the last year of her life (Sylvia) Plath $1,000 DJ POETS & POETRY 1993-12-31 #2150
"Letters Home", a volume of her correspondence, was published in 1975, 12 years after her suicide Sylvia Plath $1,000 DJ POETS 1991-05-22 #1563
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