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Sign in to Harper'sSylvia Plath was born three weeks early on October 27, 1932, and started elementary school underage, at four. She learned to swim by necessity after accidentally wading out too far in the ocean. “Russell Lynes of Harper’s bought 3 poems (‘Doomsday,’ ‘Go Get the Goodly Squab,’ and ‘To Eva Descending the Stair’) for $100,” she wrote as a junior at Smith College in 1953. “Signifying what?” The first was published in the May 1954 issue of the magazine, and she…
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