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Red comet : the short life and blazing art of Sylvia Plath /

An engrossing new biography of Sylvia Plath focuses on her remarkable literary and intellectual growth and achievement, restoring the vivid creative woman behind the longtime Plath myths perpetuated by a pathology-based approach to her life and art. With a wealth of never-before-accessed materials,...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Clark, Heather L. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2020]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Plath, Sylvia.
Hughes, Ted, > 1930-1998.
Poets, American > 20th century > Biography.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary.
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue
  • The beekeeper's daughter : Prussia, Austria, America, 1850-1932
  • Do not mourn : Winthrop, 1932-1940
  • The shadow : Wellesley, 1940-1945
  • My thoughts to shining fame aspire : Wellesley, 1946-1947
  • The voice within : Wellesley, 1947-1948
  • Summer will not come again : Wellesley, 1948-1950
  • The white queen : Wellesley and Smith College, 1950-1951
  • Love is a parallax : Swampscott, Smith College, Cape Cod, 1951-1952
  • The ninth kingdom : Smith College, September 1952-May 1953
  • My mind will split open : Manhattan, June 1953
  • The hanging man : Wellesley, July-August 1953
  • Waking in the blue : McLean Hospital, September 1953-January 1954
  • The lady or the tiger : Smith College and Harvard summer school, January-August 1954
  • O Icarus : Smith College and Wellesley, September 1954-August 1955
  • Channel crossing : Cambridge University, September 1955-February 1956
  • Pursuit : Cambridge and Europe, February-June 1956
  • Like fury : Spain, Paris, Yorkshire, Cambridge, July-October 1956
  • Itched and kindled : Cambridge University, October 1956-June 1957
  • In Midas' country : Cape Cod and Smith College, June 1957-June 1958
  • Life studies : Northampton and Boston, June 1958-March 1959
  • The development of personality : Boston, America, Yaddo, April-December 1959
  • The dread of recognition : London, 1960
  • Nobody can tell what I lack : London, January-March 1961
  • The moment of the fulcrum : London, March-August 1961
  • The late, grim heart of autumn : Devon, September-December 1961
  • Mothers : Devon, January-May 1962
  • Error : Devon, May-June 1962
  • I feel all I feel : Devon and London, June-August 1962
  • But not the end : Devon and Ireland, August-September 1962
  • The problem of him : Devon and London, October 1962
  • Castles in air : Devon and London, October-November 1962
  • Yeats's house : London, December 1962-January 1963
  • What is the remedy? : London, January-February 1963
  • The dark ceiling : London, February 1963
  • Epilogue : Your wife is dead
  • Postscript: A poet's epitaph.