May Sarton, a biography, Margot Peters
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May Sarton, a biography, Margot Peters
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eng
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 455-458) and index
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individual biography
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illustrations
Index
index present
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non fiction
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May Sarton
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bibliography
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Margot Peters
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a biography
Summary
This volume is a biography of American poet, novelist, and memoirist May Sarton (1912-1995). Sarton's best and most enduring works probably lies in her journals and memoirs. In these fragile, rambling and honest accounts of her solitary life, Sarton deals with such issues as aging, isolation, solitude, friendship, love and relationships, lesbianism, self-doubt, success and failure, envy, gratitude for life's simple pleasures, love of nature (particularly of flowers), spirituality and, importantly, the constant struggles of a creative life. This work traces Sarton's compulsive quest for recognition and artistic inspiration that would characterize most of her life. Readers witness her at age nineteen as she chooses a life in the theater, only to discover later her real passion: writing. As her literary career takes shape, Sarton still struggles for personal and professional acceptance as noted by her intense relationships with such friends as Muriel Rukeyser and Louise Bogan, and her secret turmoil over her sexuality. But ultimately, readers see Sarton begin to create in her works the image of a strong, independent woman who lived peacefully with solitude -- an image that often contradicted the reality of her life
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Wondelgem : 1911-1914 -- Refugees : 1914-1919 -- Two worlds : 1919-1925 -- "That lyric time" : 1925-1929 -- Searching : 1929-1930 -- Finding : 1931-1932 -- Disaster : 1932-1935 -- The poet : 1935-1937 -- The novelist : 1937-1939 -- My America : 1940-1944 -- Judy : 1945-1947 -- Cast out : 1947-1948 -- Loss : 1949-1950 -- New novels, new poems, new lovers : 1951-1955 -- "No longer child" : 1956-1958 -- Nelson : 1958-1960 -- Wellesley : 1960-1968 -- Mrs. Stevens dreams deep : 1965-1968 -- "Time of burning" : 1968-1970 -- Chaos : 1970-1972 -- Guru : 1973-1975 -- Poetry again : 1976-1978 -- Intimations of mortality : 1978-1982 -- Last muse : 1982-1984 -- Guardian angel : 1985-1990 -- Dying, and beyond : 1991-1995
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