Sylvia Plath [/plæθ/] ( October 27, 1932- February 11, 1963 ) „ I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.“ - Mad.

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Sylvia Plath [/plæθ/] ( October 27, February 11, 1963 ) „ I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.“ - Mad Girl's Love Song

Life (1) was an American poet, novelist, and short-story writer Bradford Senior High School Smith College Fulbright scholarship to study at Newnham College, Cambridge University

Life (2) in childhood lived in Boston, Winthrop and Wellesley, MA suffered from depression marriage with the English poet Ted Hughes had two children Frieda and Nicholas

Writing Prose and novel: The Bell Jar under the pseudonym "Victoria Lucas„ Letters Home: Correspondence 1950–1963 Poetry: The Colossus and Other Poems Ariel Crossing the Water, Winter Trees The Collected Poems

Points of interest Awards: Glascock Prize (1955) Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1982) The Collected Poems Sylvia's mother was approximately 21 years younger than her husband loved a Welsh poet Dylan Thomas "more than life itself" “Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.”

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