Anne Sexton (1928-1974) was an American poet who epitomized the style of confessional poetry which emerged in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Other exemplars of this style include her friend Sylva ...

When Anne Sexton is remembered, writes Paula M. Salvio, it is often as a confessional poet, drawing the reader into her experiences of depression and addiction, spinning plots of adultery and death, ...

Back when America was careening from the Eisenhower era—the “tranquillized Fifties,” as Robert Lowell called them—toward the Age of Aquarius, American poetry was undergoing a dramatic shift as well. A ...