Sexton, Anne 1928-1974

Overview

Works:	627 works in 1,341 publications in 5 languages and 44,817 library holdings
Genres:	Poetry Biographies Fiction Personal correspondence Autobiographies Religious poetry Criticism, interpretation, etc Juvenile works Interviews Confessional poetry
Roles:	Author, Performer, Lyricist, Contributor, Narrator, Dedicatee, Other, Author of introduction, Creator
Classifications:	PS3537.E915, 811.54

Publication Timeline

Most widely held works about Anne Sexton

Anne Sexton : a biography by Diane Wood Middlebrook( Book )
Anne Sexton : teacher of weird abundance by Paula M Salvio( )
Anne Sexton : a self-portrait in letters by Anne Sexton( Book )
Anne Sexton by Caroline King Barnard Hall( Book )
This business of words : reassessing Anne Sexton by Amanda Golden( )

Anne Sexton : the artist and her critics by J. D McClatchy( Book )
Searching for Mercy Street : my journey back to my mother, Anne Sexton by Linda Gray Sexton( Book )
No evil star : selected essays, interviews, and prose by Anne Sexton( Book )
Anne Sexton and middle generation poetry : the geography of grief by Philip McGowan( )
The death notebooks by Anne Sexton( Book )
Oedipus Anne : the poetry of Anne Sexton by Diana Hume George( Book )
Sexton : selected criticism( Book )
The confessional poets by Robert Phillips( Book )
Critical essays on Anne Sexton by Linda Wagner-Martin( Book )
Anne Sexton : telling the tale by Anne Sexton( Book )
Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton: a reference guide by Cameron Northouse( Book )
Three-martini afternoons at the Ritz : the rebellion of Sylvia Plath & Anne Sexton by Gail Crowther( Book )
The inner war : forms and themes in recent American poetry by Paul A Lacey( Book )
Anne Sexton by June Claypool( )
Original essays on the poetry of Anne Sexton( Book )

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Most widely held works by Anne Sexton

The complete poems by Anne Sexton( Book )

49 editions published between 1981 and 2016 in English and Undetermined and held by 2,540 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

From the joy and anguish of her own experience, Sexton fashioned poems that told truths about the inner lives of men and women. This book comprises Sexton's ten volumes of verse, including the Pulitzer Prize-winner Live or Die, as well as seven poems form her last years

Transformations by Anne Sexton( Book )

38 editions published between 1971 and 2018 in 4 languages and held by 2,256 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

" ... retelling many of the Grimms' fairy tales in poetry"--Page ix

The awful rowing toward God by Anne Sexton( Book )

16 editions published between 1975 and 1977 in English and held by 1,571 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Love poems by Anne Sexton( Book )

28 editions published between 1967 and 2000 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,467 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A collection of twenty-five poems originally published in 1967, in which the author explores the topic of adultery as experienced by an affluent, white Protestant wife

Selected poems of Anne Sexton by Anne Sexton( Book )

32 editions published between 1964 and 2018 in English and Chinese and held by 1,454 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

This selection, which is drawn from Anne Sexton's ten published volumes of poems as well as from representative early and last work, is an ideal introduction to a great American poet

Live or die by Anne Sexton( Book )

35 editions published between 1966 and 2008 in 3 languages and held by 1,376 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Poems written between January 25, 1962 and February, 1966, some previously published in various periodicals

The book of folly by Anne Sexton( Book )

33 editions published between 1972 and 1974 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,155 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Anne Sexton was an American poet from Weston, Massachusetts, known for her highly personal, confessional verse. She won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1967. Themes of her poetry include her suicidal tendencies, her depression, and her relationships with her husband and children

45 Mercy Street by Anne Sexton( Book )

15 editions published between 1976 and 1977 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,144 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

All my pretty ones by Anne Sexton( Book )

18 editions published between 1961 and 1996 in 3 languages and held by 960 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A gifted poet reveals the poignancy and plaintive charm of common experiences

To Bedlam and part way back by Anne Sexton( Book )

16 editions published between 1960 and 1970 in English and Undetermined and held by 942 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Words for Dr. Y. : uncollected poems with three stories by Anne Sexton( Book )

10 editions published in 1978 in English and held by 754 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A collection of Sexton's poems containing most of her important work that had not been published at the time of her death

The wizard's tears by Maxine Kumin( Book )

8 editions published between 1975 and 2019 in English and held by 604 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The new wizard tries to solve all the town's problems, but carelessness with his own magic tears creates a tragedy instead

The real tin flower : poems about the world at nine by Aliki Barnstone( Book )

2 editions published in 1968 in English and held by 395 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Joey and the birthday present by Maxine Kumin( Book )

9 editions published between 1971 and 1973 in English and held by 387 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A brown field mouse and a caged, pet white mouse become close summertime friends

Anne Sexton's confessional poetics by Jo Gill( Book )

4 editions published in 2007 in English and held by 299 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Kammermusik by Helmut Oehring( )

2 editions published in 2000 in English and held by 285 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

An accident of hope : the therapy tapes of Anne Sexton by Dawn Skorczewski( Book )

8 editions published in 2012 in English and held by 269 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

In 1956, Anne Sexton was admitted into a mental hospital for post-partum depression, where she met Dr. Martin Orne, a young psychiatrist who treated her for the next eight years. In that time Sexton would blossom into a world-famous poet, best known for her ""confessional"" poems dealing with personal subjects not often represented in poetry at that time: mental illness, depression, suicide, sex, abortion, women's bodies, and the ordinary lives of mothers and housewives. Orne audiotaped the last three years of her therapy to facilitate her ability to remember their sessions. The final six m

Poems by Thomas Kinsella( Book )

6 editions published in 1968 in English and held by 224 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Anne Sexton reads her poetry by Anne Sexton( Recording )

13 editions published between 1964 and 1992 in 3 languages and held by 175 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Many of Anne Sexton's poems are at least ostensibly about family history, personal and other intimate experience, mental collapse or sexual encounters

The poetry hall of fame collection( Visual )

1 edition published in 2006 in English and held by 99 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"133 of the world's most famous poems cleverly performed and artistically interpreted by the First Poetry Quartet and celebrity guests ... Dramatic performances by Claire Bloom, LeVar Burton, Robert Culp, Ruby Dee, Henry Fonda, Will Geer, Fred Gwynne, Valerie Harper, Jack Lemmon, Vincent Price, William Shatner, Irene Worth and other celebrities"--Container

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