文档介绍：Who is she?
Sylvia Plath
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Brief introduction
Sylvia Plath 1932-1963
American poet
novelist
short story writer
Life experience
Autobiographical
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born in Boston, Massachusetts.
got married with Ted •休斯(英国桂冠诗人) enter
published her first poem
father died of diabetes
his death drastically defined her relationships and her poems
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Her first national publication was in the Christian Science Monitor
Plath matriculated(被录取)at Smith College.
After graduation, Plath moved to Cambridge, England, on a Fulbright Scholarship富布赖特奖学金.
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the couple separated after she discovered Ted’s affair with Wevill.
Sylvia went to London alone with her two children and lived in a house where William Butler Yeats once lived.
in a deep depression, Plath wrote most of the poems that would comprise her most famous book, Ariel《爱丽尔》.
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Her only semi-autobiographical novel, The Bell Jar《钟形罩》, was published.
11 February 1963 , she committed suicide using her gas oven.
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works
Poetry
The Colossus and Other Poems (1960) 《巨人的石像及其他》
Ariel (1965) 《爱丽尔》《精灵》
Crossing the Water (1971) 《渡湖》
Winter Trees (1972) 《冬树》
The Collected Poems (1981)
Lady Lazarus《拉撒路夫人》
Prose
The Bell Jar (1963) 《钟形罩》
Letters Home (1975, to and edited by her mother) 《家书》
Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams (1977)
《约翰尼•派尼克与梦经》
The Journals of Sylvia Plath (1982)
Children's books
The Bed Book (1976)
The It-Doesn't-Matter-Suit (1996)
Collected Children's Stories (UK, 2001)
Mrs. Cherry's Kitchen (2001)
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