Anne Sexton

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American poet confessional poet person poet

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.

Statements (58)

Predicate	Object
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 NERFINISHED → Colgate University → Harvard University → 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, United States →
placeOfDeath	Weston, Massachusetts, United States →
publicationDateOfWork	1960: To Bedlam and Part Way Back → 1962: All My Pretty Ones → 1966: Live or Die → 1969: Love Poems → 1971: Transformations → 1972: The Book of Folly → 1974: The Death Notebooks → 1975: The Awful Rowing Toward God →
residence	Boston, Massachusetts, United States → Weston, Massachusetts, United States →
spouse	Alfred Muller Sexton II →
studentOf	John Holmes →

Referenced by (5)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Sylvia Plath →	hasInfluenced
Confessional poetry →	hasKeyFigure
Forest Hills Cemetery →	hasNotableBurial
Robert Lowell →	influenced
Sylvia Plath →	influencedBy