Red comet sylvia plath review5/11/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() I did not necessarily want to hear quite so much about every single man Plath dated in her teens and twenties (there were a lot). ![]() ![]() She examines her juvenalia in detail, showing her developing voice as a young poet and her drive toward publication (mostly of short stories) during her college years. She goes into detail about her family, particularly her fraught memories of her father and ongoing relationship with her mother. So I was excited to read Heather Clark’s biography that looks not just at her life, but at her work.Ĭlark’s comprehensive biography seem less like an attempt to “set the record straight” than an attempt to lay out the story of who Plath was as an artist and a woman as clearly and completely as possible. I am, however, someone who loves Plath’s poetry. That is to say, I’m not heavily embedded in the controversies, nor do I have a strong opinion about who is to blame and how it all went down. Janet Malcolm famously wrote about the challenge of balancing the various perspectives in The Silent Woman. Most of what I know about the controversies around Plath’s story come from that book. And the work of chronicling her life, including those final months before her suicide, has been complicated by how it ties into the life of her husband, Ted Hughes. Her work, and her personality through most of her life, ends up getting lost in the tragedy. A great deal of Sylvia Plath’s reputation is centered on her death and the mental illness that led up to it. ![]()
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