Sylvia Plath

Sylvia Plath

Nacimiento : 1932-10-27, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Muerte : 1963-02-11

Historia

Sylvia Plath was an American poet, novelist, and short-story writer. She is credited with advancing the genre of confessional poetry and is best known for two of her published collections, The Colossus and Other Poems and Ariel, as well as The Bell Jar, a semi-autobiographical novel published shortly before her death. In 1982, she won a posthumous Pulitzer Prize for The Collected Poems.

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Sylvia Plath

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Sylvia Plath: Inside the Bell Jar
Sylvia Plath: Inside the Bell Jar
(voice) (archive footage)
The story of Sylvia Plath's seminal novel The Bell Jar as well as the parallels between her life and the book. The film includes an exclusive testimony from Sylvia Plath's daughter Frieda Hughes about her mother.
Sylvia Plath: Inside the Bell Jar
Sylvia Plath: Inside the Bell Jar
Writer
The story of Sylvia Plath's seminal novel The Bell Jar as well as the parallels between her life and the book. The film includes an exclusive testimony from Sylvia Plath's daughter Frieda Hughes about her mother.
Ted Hughes: Stronger Than Death
Ted Hughes: Stronger Than Death
Documentary exploring Ted Hughes, one of the greatest poets of the 20th century, focusing on how his life story influenced his work and vision.
Great Poets: In Their Own Words
Great Poets: In Their Own Words
A journey into the BBC archives unearthing glorious performances and candid interviews from some of Britain's greatest poets.
Lady Lazarus
Lady Lazarus
Writer
Lady Lazarus es una respuesta visual a la lectura de la poesía de Sylvia Plath. Estas lecturas más extractos de una entrevista dada justo antes de su muerte proporcionan un ancla para una película que celebra su humor macabro y visión cinemática. Un carrusel de imágenes en ventanas, una atmósfera de constante metamorfosis; su poesía como cine.
Lady Lazarus
Lady Lazarus
Narrator (voice) (archive footage)
Lady Lazarus es una respuesta visual a la lectura de la poesía de Sylvia Plath. Estas lecturas más extractos de una entrevista dada justo antes de su muerte proporcionan un ancla para una película que celebra su humor macabro y visión cinemática. Un carrusel de imágenes en ventanas, una atmósfera de constante metamorfosis; su poesía como cine.
Sylvia Plath: Voices and Visions
Sylvia Plath: Voices and Visions
Herself (Archive)
In this documentary you will follow in considerable (and sometimes excruciatingly painful) detail Plath's life from her childhood in Massachusetts to her suicide, at age 30, in London in 1963. Included are the candid recollections of her mother, Aurelia Plath, and such aquaintances as Clarissa Roche and Dido Merwin. Providing perspectives on Plath's work are A. Alvarez, a critic, and Sandra M. Gilbert, a feminist scholar and herself a poet.
The Bell Jar
The Bell Jar
Novel
Adaptation of the 1963 novel by Sylvia Plath. Details a young woman's summer in New York working for a Mademoiselle-like magazine, return home to New England, and subsequent breakdown all amidst the horrors of the fifties, from news of the Rosenbergs' execution to sleazy disc jockeys and predatory college boys.
Epilogue
Epilogue
voice (archive footage)
The end of Autobiography.