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    A Study Guide for Anne Sexton's "Cinderella"
    A Study Guide for Anne Sexton's "Cinderella"
    A Study Guide for Anne Sexton's "Cinderella"
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    A Study Guide for Anne Sexton's "Cinderella"

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    A Study Guide for Anne Sexton's "Cinderella," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateSep 28, 2016
    ISBN9781535820837
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      A Study Guide for Anne Sexton's "Cinderella" - Gale

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      Cinderella

      Anne Sexton

      1971

      Introduction

      Anne Sexton was one of the leading American poets of the 1960s and 1970s. Together with her friend Sylvia Plath and their teacher W. D. Snodgrass, they became the leaders of the confessional school of poetry that took the private details of the poet's life as subject matter for their work. Sexton's poetry grew out of the emerging use of poetry as a tool of psychotherapy, which established another new direction in poetry. In recognition of her work, she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1967. Sexton's 1971 collection Transformations reworked sixteen of the Grimm brothers fairy tales into a ironic poetic analysis. Cinderella holds up the happily-ever-after fairy-tale marriage of the original as an ironic mirror to the pre-feminist social role of women as housewives in 1950s and 1960s America.

      Author Biography

      Sexton was born on November 9, 1928, in Newton, Massachusetts. Her father, Ralph Harvey, owned a successful woolens firm so she grew up in comfortable upper-middle-class surroundings. She began working as a fashion model while in high school and never earned a diploma. At age nineteen, Sexton broke an earlier engagement to elope with Alfred Sexton, who also became a successful businessman in the wool trade. Sexton followed the conventions of her day and settled into a suburban life as a wife and mother. She only began to write and read literature seriously after she entered psychiatric care for depression in 1955. By 1957 she was taking courses with the important confessional poet Robert Lowell at Tufts University. She had the good luck to study alongside other rising poets with whom she became friends and collaborators, including Maxine Kumin and Sylvia Plath. These connections also allowed her to attend the Antioch Writers Conference in 1957, where one of the instructors was W. D. Snodgrass, another

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