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2 Interesting facts about her life In 1955, the year Plath graduated from Smith College, she won the Glascock Prize with "Two Lovers and a Beachcomber by the Real Sea". Sylvia Plath (October 27,1932-February 11, 1963) was an American poet, Novelist, children’s author, and short story author. Sylvia Plath published her first poem when she was eight By the time she entered Smith College on a scholarship in 1950 she already had an impressive list of publications, and while at Smith she wrote over four hundred poems. Plath's father was a professor of biology and German at Bosto University and author of a book about bumblebees During the summer after her third year of college Plath was awarded a coveted position as guest editor at Mademoiselle magazine, during which she spent a month in New York City Daddy is probably Plath's most famous poem Plath took her own life after she completely sealed the rooms between herself and her sleeping children with "wet towels and cloths." Plath then placed her head in the oven while the gas was turned on and the pilot light was not lit. The next day an inquiry ruled that her death was a suicide.

3 Poems A Birthday Present A Lesson In Vengeance A Life Aftermath Among the Narcissi An Appearance Apprehensions April 18 Ariel Balloons Berck-Plage Black Rook in Rainy Weather Blackberrying Bucolics By Candlelight Child Cinderella Contusion Conversation Among the Ruins 2 Crossing the River Crossing The Water Cut Daddy Death & Co. Dialogue Between Ghost and Priest Edge Electra on Azalea Path Elm Face Lift Faun Fever 103 deg. Fiesta Melons Full Fathom Five Getting There Gigolo Goatsucker I Am Vertical In Plaster Insomniac Jilted

4 books The Bell Jar The Collected Poems Ariel The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams: Short Stories, Prose, and Diary… Ariel: The Restored Edition The Colossus and Other Poems The Journals of Sylvia Plath Letters Home Crossing the Water Plath: Poems (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets) Sylvia Plath's Selected Poems (Faber Poetry) Winter Trees The Bed Book The it-doesn't-matter suit Voice of the Poet: Plath Sylvia Plath Reads Sylvia Plath (Faber 80th Anniversary Edition) Three Women Collected Children's Stories (Faber Children's Classics ) Lady Lazarus e altre poesie Stings: Original Drafts of the Dreams of the Poem Facsimile Reproduced… Cliffs Notes on Plath's The Bell Jar Voices & Visions: Sylvia Plath American Poetry Now: A Selection of the best poems by modern American… Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath Pela água Soy Vertical Pero Preferira Ser Horizontal Opowiadania I capolavori di Sylvia Plath 26 poesie Noční tance Sylvia Plath (Poet to Poet) Sylvia Plath [sound recording] Two Poems Sylvia Plath (Spoken Word) The Faber Plath (Poet to Poet: An Essential Choice of Classic Verse) Opere Sylvia Plath reading her poetry. [Sound recording] Above the oxbow


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