id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-1782 Anne Sexton - Wikipedia .html text/html 3249 410 73 Anne Sexton (born Anne Gray Harvey; November 9, 1928 – October 4, 1974) was an American poet known for her highly personal, confessional verse. Sexton later studied with Robert Lowell at Boston University alongside poets Sylvia Plath and George Starbuck.[4][6] Sexton later paid homage to her friendship with Plath in the 1966 poem "Sylvia's Death". Orne eventually concluded that Anne Sexton was suffering from hysteria.[5] During the writing of the Middlebrook biography, her daughter, Linda Gray Sexton, stated that she had been sexually assaulted by her mother.[21][24] In 1994, she published her autobiography Searching for Mercy Street: My Journey Back to My Mother, Anne Sexton, which includes her own accounts of the abuse.[25][26] "A Brief Biography of the Life of Anne Sexton". "Review: 'Anne Sexton: A Biography'". "Anne Sexton's Life". ^ New York Times article A Daughter Revisits Sexton's Bedlam October 14, 1994. "Anne Sexton, The Art of Poetry No. 15". ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-1782.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-1782.txt