Anne Sexton

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Anne Sexton

American poet

Also known as: Anne Harvey

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Original name:: Anne Harvey

Born:: November 9, 1928, Newton, Massachusetts, U.S.

Died:: October 4, 1974, Weston, Massachusetts (aged 45)

Awards And Honors:: Pulitzer Prize

Notable Works:: “45 Mercy Street”; “All My Pretty Ones”; “Eggs of Things”; “Joey and the Birthday Present”; “Live or Die”; “Love Poems”; “The Awful Rowing Toward God”; “The Book of Folly”; “The Death Notebooks”; “The Wizard’s Tears”; “To Bedlam and Part Way Back”; “Transformations”

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Anne Sexton (born November 9, 1928, Newton, Massachusetts, U.S.—died October 4, 1974, Weston, Massachusetts) American poet whose work is noted for its confessional intensity. Anne Harvey attended Garland Junior College for a year before her marriage in 1948 to Alfred M. Sexton II. She studied with the poet Robert Lowell at Boston University and also worked as a model and a librarian. Although she had written some poetry in childhood, it was not until the later 1950s that she began to write seriously. Her poems, which showed Lowell’s influence, appeared in Harper’s, The New Yorker, Partisan Review, and other periodicals, ...(100 of 294 words)

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