{"id":6386,"date":"2021-06-30T02:43:42","date_gmt":"2021-06-30T02:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shampoopoetry.com\/?p=6386"},"modified":"2021-06-30T02:43:42","modified_gmt":"2021-06-30T02:43:42","slug":"confessional-poetry-its-key-poets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novruslit.ru\/en\/confessional-poetry\/","title":{"rendered":"Confessional Poetry & Its Key Poets"},"content":{"rendered":"

The term “confessional poetry<\/strong>” was first used in 1959 after the publication of Life Studies<\/em>, a poetry collection by Robert Lowell<\/a> which, according to the book reviewer, read like personal secrets.<\/p>\n

Even before the publication of Lowell’s book and the emergence of the confessional school in the late 1950s, poets like John Berryman<\/a> and Delmore Schwartz wrote works that are now considered confessional poetry. However, Life Studies<\/em> was a seminal work in the true sense of the word as it inspired some of the major writers of the nascent confessional movement, including Ann Sexton<\/a> and Sylvia Plath<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Key features of confessional poetry<\/h2>\n

How does confessional poetry differ from other schools of poetry? Among the key characteristics<\/a> of confessional poetry are:<\/p>\n