Anne Sexton

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Anne Sexton was an American confessional poet known for her intensely personal, psychologically probing verse that explored themes such as mental illness, femininity, and death.

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instanceOf American poet
confessional poet
person
poet
awardReceived Frost Fellowship
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
Shelley Memorial Award
birthName Anne Gray Harvey
causeOfDeath carbon monoxide poisoning
suicide
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
dateOfBirth 1928-11-09
dateOfDeath 1974-10-04
educatedAt Garland Junior College
employer Boston University
Colgate University
Harvard University
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
surface form: Radcliffe Institute for Independent Study
gender female
genre confessional poetry
poetry
hasChild Joy Sexton
Linda Gray Sexton
influenced confessional poets
influencedBy Robert Lowell
Sylvia Plath
languageOfWorkOrName English
mainTheme death
family relationships
femininity
mental illness
religion
suicide
movement confessional poetry
notableAwardWork Live or Die
notableWork All My Pretty Ones
Live or Die
Love Poems
The Awful Rowing Toward God
The Book of Folly
The Death Notebooks
To Bedlam and Part Way Back
Transformations
occupation poet
placeOfBirth Newton, Massachusetts
surface form: Newton, Massachusetts, United States
placeOfDeath Weston, Massachusetts
surface form: Weston, Massachusetts, United States
publicationDateOfWork 1960: To Bedlam and Part Way Back
1962: All My Pretty Ones
Live or Die
surface form: 1966: Live or Die

1969: Love Poems
1971: Transformations
1972: The Book of Folly
The Death Notebooks
surface form: 1974: The Death Notebooks

The Awful Rowing Toward God
surface form: 1975: The Awful Rowing Toward God
residence Boston, Massachusetts
surface form: Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Weston, Massachusetts
surface form: Weston, Massachusetts, United States
spouse Alfred Muller Sexton II
studentOf John Holmes

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