• Frank O'Hara • Fernando Pessoa • Sylvia Plath • Edgar Allan Poe • Ezra Pound • Adrienne Rich • }bitter Maria Rilke • Theodore Roethke • Sappho • Anne Sexton • William Shakespeare • Percy Bysshe Shelley • Wallace Stevens • Robert Louis Stevenson • Wistawa Szyffiborska • Alfred, Lord Tennyson • Dylan Thom

• Frank O'Hara • Fernando Pessoa • Sylvia Plath • Edgar Allan Poe • Ezra Pound • Adrienne Rich • }bitter Maria Rilke • Theodore Roethke • Sappho • Anne Sexton • William Shakespeare • Percy Bysshe Shelley • Wallace Stevens • Robert Louis Stevenson • Wistawa Szyffiborska • Alfred, Lord Tennyson • Dylan Thom

• Frank O'Hara • Fernando Pessoa • Sylvia Plath • Edgar Allan Poe • Ezra Pound • Adrienne Rich • }bitter Maria Rilke • Theodore Roethke • Sappho • Anne Sexton • William Shakespeare • Percy Bysshe Shelley • Wallace Stevens • Robert Louis Stevenson • Wistawa Szyffiborska • Alfred, Lord Tennyson • Dylan Thom

es with mental illness through suicide are Virginia Woolf, Ernest Hemingway, Vincent van Gogh, John Berryman, Hart Crane, Mark Rothko, Diane Arbus, Anne Sexton, and Arshile Gorky. My interest in this pattern is rooted in my dual identities as a scientist and a literary scholar. In an early parallel with Sy