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Definition von sylvia plath im Französisch Englisch wörterbuch
- Sylvia Plath (1932-1963), American poet, author of The Bell Jar, wife of British poet Ted Hughes
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Definition von sylvia plath im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch
- (1932-1963) United States poet, author of "The Bell Jar," wife of British poet Ted Hughes
- a US poet who was famous for her poems about women and death, and for her novel The Bell Jar, and who was married to the British poet Ted Hughes. She killed herself after many years of unhappiness (1932-63). born Oct. 27, 1932, Boston, Mass., U.S. died Feb. 11, 1963, London, Eng. U.S. poet. The daughter of an entomologist, Plath was driven to excel as a writer from an early age and published her first poem at age eight. At Smith College she made an early suicide attempt and submitted to electroshock treatment. While attending Cambridge University on a Fulbright grant, she married the poet Ted Hughes. After their separation, she committed suicide at age
- Though she was not widely recognized in her lifetime, her reputation grew rapidly afterward; by the 1970s she was considered a major contemporary poet. Her works, often confessional and preoccupied with alienation, death, and self-destruction, include the volumes The Colossus (1960), Ariel (1965), and The Collected Poems (1981, Pulitzer Prize) and a semiautobiographical novel, The Bell Jar (1963)
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Definition von sylvia plath im Englisch Französisch wörterbuch
- Sylvia Plath (1932-1963), poétesse américaine, auteur de La cloche de détresse, épouse du poète britannique Ted Hughes et qui se suicida en 1963