Anne Sexton, Singer: ‘Her Kind’ and the Musical Impetus in Lyric Confessional Verse
In her 1970 essay 'Rock Poetry, Relevance, and Revelation', Helen English comments on what she calls the 'painted pony' of the 'educational merry-go-round'. 'Too much and too often,' she writes, 'we teachers of English approach poetry through analysis. This method…