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“Courage” appears in Sexton’s collection, The Awful Rowing toward God, published in 1975. Many of the poems in this book deal with the poet’s quest for meaning in the form of religious understanding.
The Bell Jar (1963), a novel by Sexton’s friend and fellow tormented poet, Sylvia Plath, describes the fictional Esther Greenwood’s descent into madness. Most critics see the novel as autobiographical.
Noonday Press published Robert Lowell’s Life Studies and For the Union Dead in 1967 in one volume. Lowell was Sexton’s teacher and is considered to be one...
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