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Anne Sexton : the artist and her critics / edited by J.D. McClatchy.

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©1978.

xv, 297 pages ; 22 cm

This book about Anne Sexton and the critical response to her work, during and after her lifetime, begins with three interviews by Barbara Kelves, Patricia Marx, and William Packard, followed by a section called 'Reflections' -- short essays on Sexton written by Robert Lowell, Denise Levertov, and several of her associates. Two more sections 'Reviews', and 'Overviews', arranged chronologically, include four general studies of her work.

Sexton, Anne, 1928-1974 -- Criticism and interpretation.

Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.

McClatchy, J. D., 1945-2018.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-294).

The art of poetry : Anne Sexton Barbara Kevles -- Interview with Anne Sexton Patricia Marx -- Craft interview with Anne Sexton William Packard -- Worksheets for "Elizabeth gone" -- Anne Sexton / Robert Lowell -- Light up the cave / Denise Levertov -- A reminiscence / Barbara Swan -- The poet on stage / Charles Maryan -- Sexton in the classroom / Polly C. Williams -- Offices (Boston University) / John Malcolm Brinnin -- A friendship remembered / Maxine Kumin -- Remembering Anne / Lois Ames -- To Bedlam and part way back / James Dickey, Geoffrey Hartman -- All my pretty ones / May Swenson [and others] -- On live or die / Hayden Carruth, Charles Gullans, Thomas P. McDonnell -- On love poems / Mona Van Duyn, Daniel Hughes, Joyce Carol Oates -- On transformations / Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, Vernon Young -- On the book of folly / Arthur Oberg, Muriel Rukeyser -- On the death notebooks / Sandra M. Gilbert -- On the awful rowing toward God / Joyce Carol Oates, Robert Mazzocco, Ben Howard -- On 45 Mercy Street / Patricia Meyer Spacks -- Anne Sexton : "Some tribal female who is known but forbidden" / Richard Howard -- Live or die : the achievement of Anne Sexton / Robert Boyers -- "A woman who writes" : a feminist approach to the early poetry of Anne Sexton / Jane McCabe -- Anne Sexton : somehow to endure / J.D. McClatchy.

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