03934cam a2200397 i 4500 1164895494 TxAuBib 20210713120000.0 191101s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2019041635 9780307961167 hardcover $40.00 0307961168 hardcover $40.00 (OCoLC)1128061536 DLC eng rda DLC OCLCO OCLCF BDX YDX OCL ERASA MJ8 OCLCO IH9 JAS ILC CDX YDX TOH VP@ LEB OCLCO ILM CLU OCLCO BKL UtOrBLW TxAuBib rda Clark, Heather L., author. Red comet : the short life and blazing art of Sylvia Plath / Heather Clark. First edition. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2020. ℗2020. xxix, 1,118 pages, 32 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier sti rdacontent rdamedia rdacarrier "A Borzoi Book"--Title page verso. Includes bibliographical references (pages 943-1072) and index. 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. With a wealth of never-before-accessed materials--including unpublished letters and manuscripts; court, police, and psychiatric records; and new interviews--Heather Clark brings to life the brilliant daughter of Wellesley, Massachusetts who had poetic ambition from a very young age and was an accomplished, published writer of poems and stories even before she became a star English student at Smith College in the early 1950s. 20210713. Plath, Sylvia. Hughes, Ted 1930-1998. Poets, American 20th century Biography. TXKIP