The Resource Red comet : the short life and blazing art of Sylvia Plath, Heather Clark
Red comet : the short life and blazing art of Sylvia Plath, Heather Clark
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The item Red comet : the short life and blazing art of Sylvia Plath, Heather Clark represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library.
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- Summary
- The first biography of this great and tragic poet that takes advantage of a wealth of new material, this is an unusually balanced, comprehensive and definitive life of Sylvia Plath. Determined not to read Plath's work as if her every act, from childhood on, was a harbinger of her tragic fate, Clark presents new materials about Plath's scientist father, her juvenile writings, and her psychiatric treatment, and evokes a culture in transition in the mid-twentieth century, in the shadow of the atom bomb and the Holocaust, as she explores Sylvia's world - her early relationships and determination not to become a conventional woman and wife; her conflicted ties to her well-meaning, widowed mother; her troubles at the hands of an unenlightened mental-health industry; and her Cambridge years and thunderclap meeting with Ted Hughes, a true marriage of minds that would change the course of poetry in English. Clark's clear-eyed sympathy for Hughes, his lover Assia Wevill, and other demonized players in the arena of Plath's suicide promotes a deeper understanding of her final days, with their outpouring of first-rate poems. Along with illuminating readings of the poems themselves, Clark's meticulous, compassionate research brings us closer than ever to the spirited woman and visionary artist who blazed a trail that still lights the way for women poets the world over
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xxix, 1118 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9781787332539
- Label
- Red comet : the short life and blazing art of Sylvia Plath
- Title
- Red comet
- Title remainder
- the short life and blazing art of Sylvia Plath
- Statement of responsibility
- Heather Clark
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- The first biography of this great and tragic poet that takes advantage of a wealth of new material, this is an unusually balanced, comprehensive and definitive life of Sylvia Plath. Determined not to read Plath's work as if her every act, from childhood on, was a harbinger of her tragic fate, Clark presents new materials about Plath's scientist father, her juvenile writings, and her psychiatric treatment, and evokes a culture in transition in the mid-twentieth century, in the shadow of the atom bomb and the Holocaust, as she explores Sylvia's world - her early relationships and determination not to become a conventional woman and wife; her conflicted ties to her well-meaning, widowed mother; her troubles at the hands of an unenlightened mental-health industry; and her Cambridge years and thunderclap meeting with Ted Hughes, a true marriage of minds that would change the course of poetry in English. Clark's clear-eyed sympathy for Hughes, his lover Assia Wevill, and other demonized players in the arena of Plath's suicide promotes a deeper understanding of her final days, with their outpouring of first-rate poems. Along with illuminating readings of the poems themselves, Clark's meticulous, compassionate research brings us closer than ever to the spirited woman and visionary artist who blazed a trail that still lights the way for women poets the world over
- Biography type
- individual biography
- Cataloging source
- SALS
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Clark, Heather L
- Dewey number
- B
- Illustrations
-
- illustrations
- portraits
- plates
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Plath, Sylvia
- Women poets, American
- Poets, American
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- Red comet : the short life and blazing art of Sylvia Plath, Heather Clark
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
-
- text
- still image
- Content type code
-
- txt
- sti
- Content type MARC source
-
- rdacontent
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 000068210134
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- xxix, 1118 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates
- Form of item
- regular print reproduction
- Isbn
- 9781787332539
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations (some colour), portraits
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1201260979
- Label
- Red comet : the short life and blazing art of Sylvia Plath, Heather Clark
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
-
- text
- still image
- Content type code
-
- txt
- sti
- Content type MARC source
-
- rdacontent
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 000068210134
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- xxix, 1118 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates
- Form of item
- regular print reproduction
- Isbn
- 9781787332539
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations (some colour), portraits
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1201260979
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