The Life of Anne Sexton

Date Submitted: 11/29/2002 05:20:11
Category: / Literature / Poetry
Length: 8 pages (2307 words)
On what I imagine would be a dark day, November 9th, 1928, the dark, intelligent, and brilliant mind known as Anne Sexton was born in the small town of Newton, Massachusetts. She was the daughter of Mary Gray Staples Harvey and Ralph Churchill Harvey. Anne was raised in a prosperous middle-class family. Anne was the baby of the family, and was always in the dire need of attention, but was often neglected. As her oldest sister …
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…gt;45 Mercy Street. Edited by Linda Gray Sexton. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1976; London: Martin Secker and Warburg, 1977. *<Tab/>Words for Dr. Y: Uncollected Poems with Three Stories. Edited by Linda Gray Sexton. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1978. *<Tab/>The Complete Poems. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1981 *<Tab/>Selected Poems of Anne Sexton. Edited by Diane Wood Middlebrook and Diane Hume George. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1988.
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