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The Bell Jar is the only novel written by the American writer and poet Sylvia Plath. Originally published under the pseudonym "Victoria Lucas" in 1963, the novel is supposedly semi-autobiographical with the names of places and people changed.
Sylvia Plath (/ p l æ θ /; October 27, 1932 – February 11, 1963) was an American poet and author.She is credited with advancing the genre of confessional poetry and is best known for The Colossus and Other Poems (1960), Ariel (1965), and The Bell Jar, a semi-autobiographical novel published shortly before her suicide in 1963.
Throughout the novel, Esther often compares herself to one of these babies, and her emotions form the bell jar that imprisons her in her own "sour air." Source - The Bell Jar - Harper Perennial Modern Classics, page 237 (beginning of Chapter 20), page 63 (beginning of Chapter 6). Theboombody 01:26, 2 January 2014 (UTC)
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The Bell Jar is a 1979 American psychological drama film based on Sylvia Plath's 1963 book The Bell Jar.It was directed by Larry Peerce and stars Marilyn Hassett and Julie Harris. [2]
The list below includes the poems in the US version of the collection, published by Heinemann in 1960. [1] This omits several poems from the first UK edition, published by Faber & Faber in 1967, [2] including five of the seven sections of "Poem for a Birthday", only two of which ("Flute Notes from a Reedy Pond" and "The Stones") are included in the US edition.
Bell Jar can mean: bell jar, a piece of glassware used mainly for scientific purposes; The Bell Jar, a literary work by Sylvia Plath. The Bell Jar (film): a 1979 film ...
“Mad Girl's Love Song” is a poem by Sylvia Plath that explores love, heartbreak, and delusion. It follows the thought process of the speaker reflecting on a lost love, and struggling to decide whether the memories and feelings associated with the love were real or imagined.