Sylvia Plath

Born

in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, The United States

October 27, 1932

Died

February 11, 1963

Genre

Poetry, Biographies & Memoirs, Literature & Fiction

Influences

Emily Dickinson, Dylan Thomas, William Blake, Anne Sexton, W.B. Yeats, ...more

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Sylvia Plath was an American poet, novelist, and short story writer.

Known primarily for her poetry, Plath also wrote a semi-autobiographical novel, The Bell Jar, under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas. The book's protagonist, Esther Greenwood, is a bright, ambitious student at Smith College who begins to experience a mental breakdown while interning for a fashion magazine in New York. The plot parallels Plath's experience interning at Mademoiselle magazine and subsequent mental breakdown and suicide attempt.

Along with Anne Sexton, Plath is credited with advancing the genre of confessional poetry initiated by Robert Lowell and W.D. Snodgrass. Despite her remarkable artistic, academic, and social success at Smith, Plath suffered from severe ...more

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Average rating: 4.04 · 669,459 ratings · 25,617 reviews · 137 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Bell Jar really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 535,407 ratings — published 1963 — 381 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ariel 4.22 avg rating — 48,868 ratings — published 1966 — 78 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Collected Poems by Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes (Editor) 4.21 avg rating — 31,469 ratings — published 1981 — 29 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath, Karen V. Kukil (Editor) 4.31 avg rating — 14,760 ratings — published 2000 — 42 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Colossus and Other Poems 4.19 avg rating — 9,663 ratings — published 1960 — 26 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ariel: The Restored Edition by Sylvia Plath, Frieda Hughes (Foreword) 4.27 avg rating — 4,820 ratings — published 2004 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams: Short Stories, Prose and Diary Excerpts 3.92 avg rating — 4,241 ratings — published 1977 — 57 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Letters Home 4.21 avg rating — 2,638 ratings — published 1975 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom 3.97 avg rating — 2,541 ratings — published 2019 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Crossing the Water 4.14 avg rating — 1,796 ratings — published 1971 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by Sylvia Plath

“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

tags: books, life, limits

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“If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

tags: expectations

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“I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

tags: breath, existence

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Mayıs 2018'de aşağıdaki modern klasiklerden hangisini okuyalım?

Margaret Atwood - Damızlık Kızın Öyküsü, 1985, 352 sayfa

6 votes 10.7%

Ursula K. Le Guin - Mülksüzler, 1974, 378 sayfa

6 votes 10.7%

Vladimir Nabokov - Lolita, 1955, 364 sayfa

5 votes 8.9%

Mikhail Bulgakov - Usta ile Margarita, 1967, 471 sayfa

5 votes 8.9%

Yukio Mishima - Denizi Yitiren Denizci, 1963, 156 sayfa

4 votes 7.1%

J.D. Salinger - Çavdar Tarlasında Çocuklar, 1951, 158 sayfa

4 votes 7.1%

Virginia Woolf - Deniz Feneri, 1927, 248 sayfa

4 votes 7.1%

Harper Lee - Bülbülü Öldürmek, 1960, 355 sayfa

3 votes 5.4%

Sylvia Plath - Sırça Fanus, 1963, 275 sayfa

3 votes 5.4%

Simone de Beauvoir - Başkalarının Kanı, 1945, 263 sayfa

3 votes 5.4%

José Saramago - İsa'ya Göre İncil, 1991, 388 sayfa

3 votes 5.4%

Samuel Beckett - Murphy, 1938, 196 sayfa

2 votes 3.6%

Sabahattin Ali - Kuyucaklı Yusuf, 1937, 222 sayfa

2 votes 3.6%

Grigory Petrov - Beyaz Zambaklar Ülkesinde, 1923, 175 sayfa

1 vote 1.8%

Andrei Platonov - Çevengur, 1928, 416 sayfa

1 vote 1.8%

Hermann Broch - Vergilius'un Ölümü, 1945, 479 sayfa

1 vote 1.8%

Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar - Saatleri Ayarlama Enstitüsü, 1954, 395 sayfa

1 vote 1.8%

Karl Ove Knausgård - Kavgam, 2009, 492 sayfa

1 vote 1.8%

Nathanael West - Çekirgenin Günü, 1939, 190 sayfa

1 vote 1.8%

Milan Kundera - Varolmanın Dayanılmaz Hafifliği, 1984, 320 sayfa

0 votes 0.0%

Anthony Burgess - Mozart ve Deyyuslar, 1991, 176 sayfa

0 votes 0.0%

İhsan Oktay Anar - Puslu Kıtalar Atlası, 1995, 238 sayfa

0 votes 0.0%

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