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Ted Hughes
Ted Hughes (Edward James Hughes), 1930-98, English poet, b. Mytholmyroyd, Yorkshire. Hughes's best poetry focuses on the unsentimental within nature. His poems are marked by controlled diction and style, which create a sense of order and meaning in violent or passionate natural events, often in the... Read more |
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Sylvia Townsend Warner
Sylvia Townsend Warner 1893-1978, English novelist and poet. Her first published work was poetry, The Espalier (1925), but she became more generally known with two novels of gentle fantasy, Lolly Willowes (1926) and Mr. Fortune's Maggot (1927). In The Corner That Held Them (1948), generally... Read more |
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Elizabeth Hardwick
Elizabeth Hardwick 1916-2007, American literary critic, novelist, and short-story writer, b. Lexington, Ky.; grad Univ. of Kentucky (B.A., 1938; M.A., 1939). She moved (1939) to New York City, where she studied at Columbia and soon became a member of a circle of prominent urban intellectuals. Early... Read more |
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Biography and Autobiography
BIOGRAPHY AND AUTOBIOGRAPHY BIOGRAPHY AND AUTOBIOGRAPHY. Though the terms themselves appeared relatively late, "biography" in 1683 (first in English) and "autobiography" in 1789 (in German), writing "lives" Read more |
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Dictionary of National Biography
Dictionary of National Biography. The brainchild of the publisher George Smith. The work began in 1882 with Sir Leslie Stephen as editor and the last volume appeared in 1900. Supplements and updates have followed and Oxford University Press have commissioned a new edition. The original... Read more |
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Albert Bigelow Paine
Albert Bigelow Paine 1861-1937, American author, b. New Bedford, Mass. He is best remembered as the author of the authorized biography of Mark Twain (3 vol., 1912) and as the editor of Twain's letters (1917). Among his other works are several children's books, including The Hollow Tree and The... Read more |
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Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath 1932-63, American poet, b. Boston. Educated at Smith College and Cambridge, Plath published poems even as a child and won many academic and literary awards. Her first volume of poetry, The Colossus (1960), is at once highly disciplined, well crafted, and intensely personal; these... Read more |
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Lytton Strachey
Lytton Strachey (Giles Lytton Strachey), 1880-1932, English biographer and critic, educated at Cambridge. He was one of the leading members of the Bloomsbury group . Strachey is credited with having revolutionized the art of writing biography. In reaction to the copious dull scholarship and the... Read more |
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Dame Margot Fonteyn
Dame Margot Fonteyn , 1919-91, English ballerina. Fonteyn was for many years prima ballerina assoluta of the Royal Ballet . Her original name was Margaret Hookham. In 1934 she joined the Sadler's Wells Ballet School, and in the same year she made her debut as a soloist. She became prima ballerina... Read more |
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John Gibson Lockhart
John Gibson Lockhart 1794-1854, Scottish editor, lawyer, literary critic, and biographer; son-in-law and biographer of Sir Walter Scott. A major contributor to Blackwood's Magazine, he also was editor of and contributor to the Quarterly Review (1825-53). He became known as "The Scorpion" ... Read more |
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Stevenson, Anne
...times wry. Her controversial biography of Plath, Bitter Fame (1989), was written...own work shows an affinity to Plath's, whom she also powerfully evokes in ‘Three Poems for Sylvia Plath’ (1990). |
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Sylvia Plath: a biography.
SYLVIA PLATH, A BIOGRAPHY. By Linda Wagner-Martin. Simon and...during the first childbearing years. The Sylvia Plath of this biography mostly was: all preface...Denied permission to quote at length from Plath's ... |
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Rough Magic: A Biography of Sylvia Plath.
...1928-1974) and Sylvia Plath (19321963), don...the stuff of art. Biographies are to such poetry...lives of Sexton and Plath inspire fascination...In Rough Magic: A Biography of Sylvia Plath (Viking, 402 pp... |
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Reviving the Pain of Sylvia Plath;The Poet's Family and a Biography That...
...destruction. Now a new biography, published in recent...literary agent for the Plath estate-and with more...opposite; it portrays Plath as an intense, obsessive...direction, transforming Plath from saint to Satan...smoldering controversy over ... |
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Geniuses in love and war: a new biography brilliantly captures the dark...
What a match they were: Sylvia Plath, the American poet and novelist...infidelity, which led to Plath's suicide in 1963. All...s shrewd and compelling biography. Her Husband: Hughes and Plath--Marriage (Viking... |
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Sylvia Plath and the Theatre of Mourning.(Review)
Sylvia Plath and the Theatre of Mourning by Christina...1999. Pp. 250. $60.00, cloth. Sylvia Plath wrote intensely and died immensely Her...from those of its suppressed double, biography Emphasizing the rhetoricity and self... |
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Ted Hughes and the corpus of Sylvia Plath.
...Elizabeth Hardwick's "in her work at least, [Plath is] never a `nice person,'" is offset in the same article by assertions that entangle Plath's life, work, and biography: "in Sylvia Plath's work and in her life the elements of pathology... |
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Holy secrets. (psychiatric records of deceased poets Sylvia Plath and Anne...
...about writing Rough Magic, my biography of Sylvia Plath, I made a list of people I wanted...many years was unknown even to Plath's most devoted fans. Barnhouse...release in 1982 of The Journals of Sylvia Plath, Barnhouse's ... |
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The Death and Life of Sylvia Plath.
...1928-1974) and Sylvia Plath (19321963), don...the stuff of art. Biographies are to such poetry...lives of Sexton and Plath inspire fascination...In Rough Magic: A Biography of Sylvia Plath (Viking, 402 pp... |
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THE BIOGRAPHER AS BURGLAR JANET MALCOLM ON THE SYLVIA PLATH LEGEND
...and, with this Plath book, something...she focuses on Sylvia Plath. "The Silent Woman" is not a biography -- heaven forbid...a study of how biographies have forged Plath's reputation...the world sees Sylvia ... |
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BIOGRAPHY; Hughes and Plath: From Mr. and Mrs. to myth.(ENTERTAINMENT)
...1963, the cult of Sylvia Plath has grown unabated...addition to countless biographies and memoirs on...proliferation of biographies that followed offered...recent excellent biography "Ted Hughes...which Hughes and Plath ... |
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