Sylvia Plath Sylvia Plath (October 27, 1932American poet, novelist, children's author, and short story author.Known primarily for her poetry, Plath also wrote a semi-autobiographical novel, The Bell Jar, under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas. The book's protagonist, Esther Greenwood, is a bright, ambitious student at Smith College who begins to experience a mental breakdown while interning for a fashion magazine in New York. Sylvia_Plath
Electroconvulsive therapy Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), also known as electroshock, is a well established, albeit controversial, psychiatric treatment in which seizures are electrically induced in anesthetized patients for therapeutic effect. Today, ECT is most often used as a treatment for severe major depression which has not responded to other treatment, and is also used in the treatment of mania (often in bipolar disorder), catatonia, schizophrenia and other disorders. Electroconvulsive_therapy
Daddy (poem) Daddy is a poem written by the American Poet Sylvia Plath. It was written on October 12 1962, shortly before her death, and published posthumously in Ariel, 1965. The poem's implications and thematic concerns have been discussed academically with differing conclusions. The relative popularity of Daddy can be attributed to Plath's vivid use of imagery Daddy_(poem)
Frieda Hughes Frieda Rebecca Hughes (born 1 April 1960, London) is an English poet and painter. She has published seven children's books and four poetry collections and had many exhibitions. Frieda_Hughes