October 27th, 2002
American poet Sylvia Plath (Ariel, 1965) is born in Boston in 1932.
Sylvia Plath, b. October 27, 1932, d. 1963
We’ll never know what Sylvia Plath might have accomplished had she been able to put aside her demons. She was writing the best poetry of her life just before she died, and her novel The Bell Jar is a small classic.
Suggested Reading Poetry The Colossus and Other Poems, 1960. Ariel, 1965. Plath:Poems, 1998. Prose The Bell Jar, 1963. The Journals of Sylvia Plath, 1982.
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