"Ennui" is a

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by Sylvia Plath published for the first time in November 2006 in the online literary journal '' Blackbird''. Sylvia Plath wrote the Petrarchan sonnet "Ennui" during her

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years at

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. The first appearance of "Ennui" in print received international attention, from

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. Reports on the poem were featured in the ''New York Times'', the ''Washington Post'', the ''Guardian Unlimited'', the ''

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'', and other journals.

References

External links

Scan of final draft at the Blackbird Archive

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