6/6/2023 0 Comments Red comet plath![]() ![]() 4, 1963, Sylvia Plath wrote a series of 14 intensely personal letters to psychologist Ruth Beuscher. ![]() To me, this new biographical information, together with Plath’s drafts and journal entries, reveals how she channeled this painful experience into her poetry. ![]() But no scholarship has yet to contextualize the painful event as a means to reinterpret two of Plath’s most autobiographical poems, “The Rabbit Catcher” and “Thalidomide.”Īs a scholar of 20th-century American poetry, I teach Plath regularly in my university classrooms and direct graduate theses about her works. Heather Clark’s recent biography of Plath, “ Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath,” includes this new information. In 2017, one of Sylvia Plath’s private letters, which had previously not been made public, included a startling revelation: Plath suggested that her husband, poet Ted Hughes, was responsible for the miscarriage of their child in February 1961. ![]()
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