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Dec 1, 2011 · The range of Clark's comparative approach is impressive here, reading Plath as a colonial subject through a series of metaphors provided by poems in The Birthday Letters. As Clark notes, reviewers of the time often co-opted Plath and Hughes's work into debates about male and female poetry, the competing claims of British and American verse, or the battle between gentility and the confessional ...
- William May
- 2011
The third book is Heather Clark's massive biography Red Comet: published last October, it is, alongside Crowther's, one of the first books about Plath to make full use of the recently-published ...
- Lillian Crawford
May 15, 2021 · Heather Clark is Professor of Contemporary Poetry and Director of the Centre for International Contemporary Poetry at the University of Huddersfield. She is the author of Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath, which won the Biographers’ Club/Slightly Foxed Prize for Best First Biography, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the LA Times Book Prize ...
- Heather Clark
- 2021
Mar 2, 2021 · Please try again later. Heather Clark, whose 1,100-page biography of Sylvia Plath was published by Alfred A. Knopf and Jonathan Cape in October 2020, talks about her experience writing the life of an iconic figure who has been mythologized and pathologized for half a century. Clark spent eight years researching and writing her biography.
Oct 24, 2023 · In a different way, Clark hints, the ’60s began too late for Plath—the alleged Laurentian who saw “the end of the Chatterley ban” but not the arrival of The Feminine Mystique (published eight days after Plath’s death); the marooned voice of “The Colossus,” who stopped awaiting any rescue at “the landing,” then died just before the second wave of feminism rolled in.
“Remarkable . . . Clark’s approach is unfailingly compassionate, respectful, and honest—about the circumstances of Plath’s life and death, the characters that surrounded her, and the work that made her one of our most important poets . . . To witness [Plath] through this work is a privilege.” —Corinne Segal, Literary Hub
Critical acclaim has greeted a major biography of the poet and novelist Sylvia Plath, written by the American scholar Heather Clark, who is Professor of Contemporary Poetry at the University of Huddersfield. Titled Red Comet: The Short and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath, the newly-published, 1,152-page book has been hailed as the definitive ...
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