All My Pretty Ones

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All My Pretty Ones is a 1962 poetry collection by Anne Sexton that explores themes of family, loss, and mental illness in her characteristically confessional style.

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All My Pretty Ones canonical 4
All My Pretty Ones (poem) 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf book
poetry collection
author Anne Sexton
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
followedByWork Live or Die
followsWork To Bedlam and Part Way Back
genre confessional poetry
hasCreator Anne Sexton
hasPoem All My Pretty Ones self-linksurface differs
surface form: All My Pretty Ones (poem)

Letter Written on a Ferry While Crossing Long Island Sound
The Division of Parts
The Double Image
The Fortress
The Interrogation of the Man of Many Hearts
The Operation
The Starry Night
The Truth the Dead Know
hasTitle All My Pretty Ones self-link
language English
literaryForm poetry
literaryMovement Confessional poetry movement
literaryPeriod postwar American literature
mainCharacter lyric speaker based on Anne Sexton
medium print
notableFor autobiographical content
exploration of mental illness
intimate treatment of family history
period 20th-century American poetry
precededByWork To Bedlam and Part Way Back
publicationYear 1962
style confessional
subject Sexton family
children
marriage
parents
religion
suicidal ideation
theme confession
death
family
grief
loss
memory
mental illness
personal trauma

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Anne Sexton notableWork All My Pretty Ones
Anne Gray Harvey notableWork All My Pretty Ones
To Bedlam and Part Way Back followedBy All My Pretty Ones
All My Pretty Ones hasPoem All My Pretty Ones self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: All My Pretty Ones (poem)
All My Pretty Ones hasTitle All My Pretty Ones self-link