Jun. 2nd, 2016
"Ellen Levy, in Criminal Ingenuity (2011), writes that “poets like Robert Lowell, John Berryman, Sylvia Plath, and Anne Sexton achieved [a kind of] stardom through those of their poems that their readers came to correlate with painful facts of their private lives,” thereby associating “artistic authenticity with the exposure of what was meant to be private” " (с)