Title: Sexton :
Authors: George, Diana Hume,
Date: 1988
Publisher: University of Illinois Press,
Physical description: xxiv, 326 p. ; 24 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: P
Contents: Anne Sexton and the seduction of the audience / Alicia Ostriker -- Seduction in Anne Sexton's unpublished play Mercy Street / Diane Wood Middlebrook -- Anne Sexton: somehow to endure / J.D. McClatchy -- Beyond the pleasure principle: the death baby / Diana Hume George -- The double image and the division of parts: a study of mother-daughter relationships in the poetry of Anne Sexton / Margaret Honton -- Goddess manifestations as stages in feminine metaphysics in the poetry and life of Anne Sexton / Stephanie Demetrakopoulos -- Anne Sexton's "Radical discontent with the awful order of things" / Estella Lauter -- The hungry beast rowing toward God: Anne Sexton's later religious poetry / Kathleen L. Nichols -- Mysticism and suicide: Anne Sexton's last poetry / William H. Shurr -- How it was: Maxine Humin on Anne Sexton / Maxine Kumin -- Anne Sexton at the Radcliffe institute / Diane Wood Middlebrook -- "Daddy": Sylvia Plath's debt to Anne SExton / Heather Cam -- Mercy street and other vacant houses / Linda Wagner-Martin -- That story: Anne Sexton and her transformations / Alicia Ostriker -- The witch's life: confession and control in the early poetry of Anne Sexton / Jeanne Kammer Neff -- The troubled life of the artist / Steven E. Colburn -- Seeking the exit or the home: Poetry and salvatio in the career of Anne Sexton / Suzanne Juhasz -- Not that it was beautiful / Kim Krynock.
Notes: Includes index.
Subject headings (LCSH): Sexton, Anne, 1928-1974--Criticism and interpretation.