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Confessional poetry

Index Confessional poetry

Confessional poetry or "Confessionalism" is a style of poetry that emerged in the United States during the 1950s. [1]

45 relations: Adrienne Rich, Al Alvarez, Allen Ginsberg, Anne Sexton, Anne Stevenson, Antonio Machado, Ariel (poetry collection), Beat Generation, Catullus, Confessional writing, Delmore Schwartz, Franz Wright, Free verse, Ian Hamilton (critic), James Merrill, John Berryman, Language poets, Life Studies, Limit-experience, Macha Rosenthal, Marie Howe, Mental disorder, Michael Hofmann, New Formalism, Poète maudit, Poetry as Confession, Postmodernism, Psychoanalysis, Robert Bly, Robert Lowell, Sappho, Sharon Olds, Solipsism, Suicide, Sylvia Plath, Taboo, The Dream Songs, The Kenyon Review, The Wounded Surgeon, Theodore Roethke, W. D. Snodgrass, 1943 in poetry, 1947 in poetry, 1959 in poetry, 1967 in poetry.

Adrienne Rich

Adrienne Cecile Rich (May 16, 1929 – March 27, 2012) was an American poet, essayist and feminist.

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Al Alvarez

Alfred Alvarez (born 5 August 1929) is an English poet, novelist, essayist and critic who publishes under the name A. Alvarez and Al Alvarez.

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Allen Ginsberg

Irwin Allen Ginsberg (June 3, 1926 – April 5, 1997) was an American poet, philosopher, writer, and activist.

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Anne Sexton

Anne Sexton (November 9, 1928 – October 4, 1974) was an American poet, known for her highly personal, confessional verse.

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Anne Stevenson

Anne Stevenson (born January 3, 1933) is an American-British poet and writer.

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Antonio Machado

Antonio Machado, in full Antonio Cipriano José María y Francisco de Santa Ana Machado y Ruiz (26 July 1875 – 22 February 1939), was a Spanish poet and one of the leading figures of the Spanish literary movement known as the Generation of '98.

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Ariel (poetry collection)

Ariel was the second book of Sylvia Plath's poetry to be published, and was originally published in 1965, two years after her death by suicide.

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Beat Generation

The Beat Generation was a literary movement started by a group of authors whose work explored and influenced American culture and politics in the post-World War II era.

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Catullus

Gaius Valerius Catullus (c. 84 – c. 54 BC) was a Latin poet of the late Roman Republic who wrote chiefly in the neoteric style of poetry, which is about personal life rather than classical heroes.

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Confessional writing

In literature, confessional writing is a first-person style that is often presented as an ongoing diary or letters, distinguished by revelations of a person's deeper or darker motivations.

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Delmore Schwartz

Delmore Schwartz (December 8, 1913 – July 11, 1966) was an American poet and short story writer.

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Franz Wright

Franz Wright (March 18, 1953 – May 14, 2015) was an American poet.

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Free verse

Free verse is an open form of poetry.

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Ian Hamilton (critic)

Robert Ian Hamilton (24 March 1938 – 27 December 2001) was a British literary critic, reviewer, biographer, poet, magazine editor and publisher.

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James Merrill

For the South Carolina politician see James Merrill (politician) James Ingram Merrill (March 3, 1926 – February 6, 1995) was an American poet.

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John Berryman

John Allyn McAlpin Berryman (born John Allyn Smith, Jr.; October 25, 1914 – January 7, 1972) was an American poet and scholar, born in McAlester, Oklahoma.

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Language poets

The Language poets (or ''L.

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Life Studies

Life Studies is the fourth book of poems by Robert Lowell.

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Limit-experience

A limit-experience (expérience limite) is a type of action or experience which approaches the edge of living in terms of its intensity and its seeming impossibility.

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Macha Rosenthal

Macha Louis Rosenthal (March 14, 1917 – July 21, 1996) was an American poet, critic, editor, and teacher.

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Marie Howe

Marie Howe (born 1950 Rochester, New York) is an American poet.

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Mental disorder

A mental disorder, also called a mental illness or psychiatric disorder, is a behavioral or mental pattern that causes significant distress or impairment of personal functioning.

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Michael Hofmann

Michael Hofmann (born 25 August 1957 in Freiburg, West Germany) is a German-born poet who writes in English and a translator of texts from German.

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New Formalism

New Formalism is a late 20th- and early 21st-century movement in American poetry that has promoted a return to metrical and rhymed verse.

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Poète maudit

A poète maudit (accursed poet) is a poet living a life outside or against society.

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Poetry as Confession

'Poetry as Confession' was an influential article written by M. L. Rosenthal, reviewing the poetry collection Life Studies by Robert Lowell.

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Postmodernism

Postmodernism is a broad movement that developed in the mid- to late-20th century across philosophy, the arts, architecture, and criticism and that marked a departure from modernism.

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Psychoanalysis

Psychoanalysis is a set of theories and therapeutic techniques related to the study of the unconscious mind, which together form a method of treatment for mental-health disorders.

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Robert Bly

Robert Bly (born December 23, 1926) is an American poet, essayist, activist, and leader of the mythopoetic men's movement.

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Robert Lowell

Robert Traill Spence Lowell IV (March 1, 1917 – September 12, 1977) was an American poet.

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Sappho

Sappho (Aeolic Greek Ψαπφώ, Psappho; c. 630 – c. 570 BC) was an archaic Greek poet from the island of Lesbos.

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Sharon Olds

Sharon Olds (born November 19, 1942) is an American poet.

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Solipsism

Solipsism is the philosophical idea that only one's own mind is sure to exist.

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Suicide

Suicide is the act of intentionally causing one's own death.

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Sylvia Plath

Sylvia Plath (October 27, 1932 – February 11, 1963) was an American poet, novelist, and short-story writer.

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Taboo

In any given society, a taboo is an implicit prohibition or strong discouragement against something (usually against an utterance or behavior) based on a cultural feeling that it is either too repulsive or dangerous, or, perhaps, too sacred for ordinary people.

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The Dream Songs

The Dream Songs is a compilation of two books of poetry, 77 Dream Songs (1964) and His Toy, His Dream, His Rest (1968) by the American poet John Berryman.

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The Kenyon Review

The Kenyon Review is a literary magazine based in Gambier, Ohio, US, home of Kenyon College.

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The Wounded Surgeon

The Wounded Surgeon: Confession and Transformation in Six American Poets is a book by Adam Kirsch, published in 2005 by W. W. Norton & Company.

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Theodore Roethke

Theodore Huebner Roethke (May 25, 1908 – August 1, 1963) was an American poet.

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W. D. Snodgrass

William De Witt Snodgrass (January 5, 1926 – January 13, 2009) was an American poet who also wrote under the pseudonym S. S. Gardons.

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1943 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

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1947 in poetry

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1959 in poetry

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1967 in poetry

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confessional_poetry

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