Sylvia plath education
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Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath was born on October 27, 1932, in Boston, Massachusetts. Her mother, Aurelia Schober, was a master’s student at Boston University when she met Plath’s father, Otto Plath, who was her professor. They were married in January of 1932. Otto taught both German and biology, with a focus on apiology, the study of bees.
In 1940, when Plath was eight years old, her father died as a result of complications from diabetes. He had been strict, and both his authoritarian attitudes and his death drastically defined Plath’s relationships and her poems—most notably in her elegiac and infamous poem “Daddy.”
Plath kept a journal from the age of eleven and published her poems in regional magazines and newspapers. Her first national publication was in the Christian Science Monitor in 1950, just after graduating from high school. In 1950, Plath matriculated at Smith College, where she graduated summa cum laude in 1955.
After graduation, Plath moved to Cambridge, England, on a Fulbright Scholarship. In early 1956, she attended a party and met the English poet Ted
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Sylvia Plath
American poet and writer (1932–1963)
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Sylvia Plath (; October 27, 1932 – February 11, 1963) was an American poet and author. She is credited with advancing the genre of confessional poetry and is best known for The Colossus and Other Poems (1960), Ariel (1965), and The Bell Jar, a semi-autobiographical novel published shortly before her suicide in 1963. The Collected Poems was published in 1981, which included previously unpublished works. For this collection Plath was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in Poetry in 1982, making her the fourth to receive this honor posthumously.[1]
Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Plath graduated from Smith College in Massachusetts and the University of Cambridge, England, where she was a student at Newnham College. Plath later studied with Robert Lowell at Boston University, alongside poets Anne Sexton and George Starbuck. She married fellow poet Ted Hughes in 1956, and they lived together in the United States and then in England. Their relationship was
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Plath [married name Hughes], Sylvia
Plath [married name Hughes], Sylvia (1932–1963), poet and writer, was born in the Massachusetts Memorial Hospital on 27 October 1932, the daughter of Otto Emil Plath (d. 1940) and Aurelia Frances Schober. Otto had emigrated from Prussia at sixteen and Aurelia was a second-generation Austrian-American. Their second child, Warren, was born in 1935. Sylvia spent her early childhood at 24 Prince Street, Jamaica Plain, Boston, until 1936 when the family moved to 92 Johnson Avenue, Winthrop, where Aurelia's parents lived. Otto Plath was an entomologist, specializing in the study of bees, and a teacher of German at Boston University. He died suddenly when Sylvia was eight, of undiagnosed diabetes, following an emergency leg amputation. After his death she declared, 'I'll never speak to God again'; it haunted her for the rest of her life. In one of her last prose writings, 'Ocean 1212-W', she wrote that her first nine years 'sealed themselves off like a ship in a bottle—beautiful inaccessible, obsolete, a fine, white flying myth' (Plath, Jo
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