（精）Sylvia Plath.ppt

Thank you ! Sylvia Plath(1932-1963) Ted and Sylvia Life Accounts American poet, novelist and short story writer. 1932 - born during the Great Depression in the Massachusetts 1940 – published her first poem father died of diabetes 1950 – attended Smith College obtained a Fulbright scholarship to Newnham College, Cambridge, UK 1956 – got married with Ted Hughes, the later Poet Laureate (1984-1998), in London 1957 – the couple moved to the US 1959 – went back to the UK 1960 – their daughter Frieda was born published her first collection of poetry 1962 – Their son Nicholas was born In July, the couple separated after she discovered Ted’s affair with Wevill Sylvia went to London alone with two children and lived in a house where William Butler Yeats once lived. 1963 – Her only novel, The Bell Jar, was published 11 February 1963 , she committed suicide Following her death On March 16, 2009, Nicholas , the son of Plath and Ted, hanged himself at his home in Alaska, following a history of depression. Poetry collections The Colossus and Other Poems (1960) Ariel (1961–1965) Three Women: A Monologue for Three Voices (1968) Crossing the Water (1971) Winter Trees (1971) The Collected Poems (1981) Selected Poems (1985) Plath: Poems (1998) Sylvia Plath Reads, Harper Audio (2000) (Audio) Childrens books The Bed Book (1976) The It-Doesnt-Matter-Suit (1996) Collected Childrens Stories (UK, 2001) Mrs. Cherrys Kitchen (2001)