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Anne Sexton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Anne Sexton (1928-1974) ... | Anne Sexton's Life | A Sexton Chronology | Sexton's Career -- by Diana Hume George | About Anne Sexton | On "Her Kind" | On "The Truth the Dead Know" | On "One for My Dame" | A Sexton Bibliography | External Links |
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Sexton, Anne Gray Harvey (9 Nov. 1928-4 Oct. 1974), poet and playwright, was born in Newton, Massachusetts, the daughter of Ralph Harvey, a successful woolen manufacturer, and Mary Gray Staples. ... Anne Sexton's papers are housed at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas, Austin.
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Anne Gray Harvey was born in Newton, Massachusetts, in 1928. She attended Garland Junior College for one year and married Alfred Muller Sexton II at age nineteen. She enrolled in a modeling course at the Hart Agency and lived in San Francisco and ... ... In her introduction to Anne Sexton's Complete Poems,
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Much of Anne Sexton's poetry is autobiographical and concentrates on her deeply personal feelings, especially anguish. In particular, many of her poems record her battles with mental illness. She spent many years in psychoanalysis, including several long stays in mental hospitals.
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I have gone out, a possessed witch, ... Much of Anne Sexton's poetry is autobiographical and concentrates on her deeply personal feelings, . . . MORE » ... More Poems by Anne Sexton...
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Information about Anne Sexton ... A collection of news and information related to Anne Sexton published by Tribune Company sources. ... Topics > Arts and Culture > Anne Sexton...
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eCampus.com: Selected Poems of Anne Sexton: Anne Sexton; Diane Wood Middlebrook; Diana Hume George: 9780395477823: $0.20: : ... With its simple, forceful imagery, Anne Sexton's poetry is not only remarkably powerful but also very accessible. The subjects she writes about--sex, mental breakdown, the search for spiritual...
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1947 - Anne Harvey attended Garland Junior College for a year. 1948 - She was married to Alfred M. Sexton II. 1950 - She had written some poetry in childhood ... - "Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters", edited by Lois Ames and Linda Gray Sexton, was published and "No Evil Star: Selected Essays, Interviews, and Prose"
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SOURCE: "Is It True? Feeding, Feces, and Creativity in Anne Sexton's Poetry," in Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal, Vol. 68, No. 3, Fall, 1985, pp. 357-71. ... This is an essay on beginnings and endings, feces and fruit, in the poetry of Anne Sexton.
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