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Poets with tag Confessionalism:

A style of poetry that emerged in the United States during the 1950s. It has been described as poetry "of the personal," focusing on extreme moments of individual experience, the psyche, and personal trauma, including previously taboo matter such as mental illness, sexuality, and suicide, often set in relation to broader social themes. It is sometimes also classified as Postmodernism.

The school of "Confessional Poetry" was associated with several poets who redefined American poetry in the 1950s and 1960s.

Name	Years	Country	Tags	Works	Rank
John Berryman	1914-1972	USA	Confessionalism, Committed suicide, Bipolar disorder	152	140
Robert Lowell	1917-1977	USA	Bipolar disorder, Confessionalism, Formalism, Laureate, Modernism	20	160
Allen Ginsberg	1926-1997	USA	Beat, Confessionalism, Fantasy, Free verse, Homoerotism, Modernism, Neoromanticism, New American Poetry, Romanticism, Surrealism, Transgressive fiction	50	61
Anne Sexton	1928-1974	USA	Bipolar disorder, Committed suicide, Confessionalism, Slavery	188	60
Ted Hughes	1930-1998	ENG	Children, Confessionalism, Laureate, The Movement	33	87
Derek Walcott	1930-	LCA	Confessionalism, Formalism, Gothic, Imagism, Laureate, Methodism, National, Spiritualism, Surrealism	21	106
Sylvia Plath	1932-1963	USA	Bipolar disorder, Committed suicide, Confessionalism, Modernism	282	14

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