Sylvia Plath

Sylvia Plath was an American poet, novelist, and short-story writer. She is credited with advancing the genre of confessional poetry and is best known for two of her published collections, The Colossus and Other Poems and Ariel, as well as The Bell Jar, a semi-autobiographical novel published shortly before her death. In 1982, she won a posthumous Pulitzer Prize for The Collected Poems.
Cast

Great Poets: In Their Own Words
Self

Ted Hughes: Stronger Than Death
Unknown
The Lady in the Book - Sylvia Plath, portraits
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Sylvia Plath reading poems from Ariel
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Lady Lazarus
Narrator (voice) (archive footage)

Sylvia Plath: Inside The Bell Jar
Self - Writer (voice) (archive footage)

Epilogue
voice (archive footage)

Voices & Visions: Sylvia Plath
Herself (Archive)



