Week 5 – Confessional Poetry

Primary Texts:

Anne Sexton – “The Truth the Dead Know” (1962)

Sylvia Plath – “Lady Lazarus” (1962)

Secondary Reading:

Hoover, Paul, ed. – Introduction. Postmodern American Poetry, pp. xxix-lvii.

Sylvia Plath – “Context” (essay)

Anne Sexton – The Truth the Dead Know
Sylvia Plath – Lady Lazarus
Paul Hoover - Postmodern American Poetry
CONFESSIONAL POETRY.pptx