{"id":60913,"date":"2021-11-21T19:35:06","date_gmt":"2021-11-22T00:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/?post_type=lecture&#038;p=60913"},"modified":"2024-04-30T09:31:37","modified_gmt":"2024-04-30T13:31:37","slug":"sylvia-plath","status":"publish","type":"lecture","link":"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/lecture\/sylvia-plath\/","title":{"rendered":"Sylvia Plath"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"wp-block-umw-hero alignfull umw-custom-block umw-hero umw-hero--dark-text umw-hero--white umw-hero--with-no-media\"><div class=\"umw-hero__inner\"><div class=\"umw-hero__media\"><\/div><div class=\"umw-hero__title\"><div class=\"container\"><div class=\"umw-hero__title__wrapper\"><div class=\"umw-hero__eyebrow\">great lives lecture series<\/div><h1 class=\"umw-hero__title__header\">Sylvia Plath<\/h1><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-umw-hero-ctas alignfull\"><div class=\"umw-hero__links\"><div class=\"container\"><div class=\"umw-hero__links__wrapper\">\n\n\n\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n<div class=\"wpv-view-output\" data-toolset-views-view-editor=\"e721647dfbf5a1e9c6b8ff3bf0a98c1a\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-toolset-views-view-editor wpv-gutenberg-view-wrapper-61885\">\n\n\n<div id=\"wpv-view-layout-61885-CATTR7b3f94be44fd76a38807abf817f44301\" class=\"js-wpv-view-layout js-wpv-layout-responsive js-wpv-view-layout-61885-CATTR7b3f94be44fd76a38807abf817f44301\" data-viewnumber=\"61885-CATTR7b3f94be44fd76a38807abf817f44301\" data-pagination=\"{&quot;id&quot;:&quot;61885&quot;,&quot;query&quot;:&quot;normal&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;disabled&quot;,&quot;effect&quot;:&quot;fade&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:500,&quot;speed&quot;:5,&quot;pause_on_hover&quot;:&quot;enabled&quot;,&quot;stop_rollover&quot;:&quot;false&quot;,&quot;cache_pages&quot;:&quot;enabled&quot;,&quot;preload_images&quot;:&quot;enabled&quot;,&quot;preload_pages&quot;:&quot;enabled&quot;,&quot;preload_reach&quot;:1,&quot;spinner&quot;:&quot;builtin&quot;,&quot;spinner_image&quot;:&quot;\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/plugins\/toolset-blocks\/embedded\/res\/img\/ajax-loader.gif&quot;,&quot;callback_next&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;manage_history&quot;:&quot;enabled&quot;,&quot;has_controls_in_form&quot;:&quot;disabled&quot;,&quot;infinite_tolerance&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;max_pages&quot;:1,&quot;page&quot;:1,&quot;base_permalink&quot;:&quot;\/greatlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lecture\/60913?wpv_view_count=61885-CATTR7b3f94be44fd76a38807abf817f44301&amp;wpv_paged=WPV_PAGE_NUM&quot;,&quot;loop&quot;:{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;data&quot;:[],&quot;id&quot;:0}}\" data-permalink=\"\/greatlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lecture\/60913?wpv_view_count=61885-CATTR7b3f94be44fd76a38807abf817f44301\">\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n          <h2 class=\"lectureDate\">Lecture Date: March 8, 2022<\/h2>\n\n<h3>The Sodexo Lecture<\/h3>\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Great Lives Lecture 2022: Sylvia Plath\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/665299037?h=7ae18be250&amp;dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"533\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<div class=\"topicSummary\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/11\/SylviaPlath_HeatherClark-200x300.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-medium alignright\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" style=\"\" srcset=\"\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/11\/SylviaPlath_HeatherClark-200x300.jpeg 200w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/11\/SylviaPlath_HeatherClark-683x1024.jpeg 683w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/11\/SylviaPlath_HeatherClark-768x1152.jpeg 768w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/11\/SylviaPlath_HeatherClark-760x1140.jpeg 760w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/11\/SylviaPlath_HeatherClark.jpeg 886w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><p>In this talk, Heather Clark will discuss her award-winning biography of Sylvia Plath, an iconic poet who holds a mythic place in the public imagination. Clark will discuss her reasons for embarking upon a new biography of Plath; her determination to present Plath as an innovative writer rather than a psychological \u201ccase\u201d; and the challenges of writing about Plath\u2019s mental illness, troubled marriage, and suicide.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2 class=\"lectureSpeaker\" style=\"padding-top: 1em;\">Speaker: Heather Clark<\/h2>\n<div class=\"speakerInfo\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/11\/Heather-Clark-scaled-e1637541134312-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail alignleft\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" style=\"\" srcset=\"\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/11\/Heather-Clark-scaled-e1637541134312-150x150.jpg 150w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/11\/Heather-Clark-scaled-e1637541134312-50x50.jpg 50w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/11\/Heather-Clark-scaled-e1637541134312-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>\n<p>Heather Clark is the author of three award-winning books on modern poetry, most recently <cite>Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath<\/cite>, which was a finalist for the 2021 Pulitzer Prize in Biography, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the <cite>LA Times<\/cite> Book Prize, and the winner of the Slightly Foxed Prize for Best First Biography. <cite>Red Comet<\/cite> was named a \u201cBook of the Year\u201d in the <cite>Guardian<\/cite>, <cite>O<\/cite>, the Oprah Magazine, <cite>Entertainment Weekly<\/cite>, Good Morning America Book Club, <cite>The Times<\/cite> (London), <cite>Lit Hub<\/cite>, Barnes & Noble, and elsewhere. Clark has received recent fellowships from the National Endowment from the Humanities and the Leon Levy Center for Biography, and is Professor of Contemporary Poetry at the University of Huddersfield in Yorkshire, England.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"umw_cb_additional_links":[[]],"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_advisory_expires_time":"","_advisory_meta_include":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"season":[1245],"class_list":{"0":"post-60913","1":"lecture","2":"type-lecture","3":"status-publish","5":"season-1245","6":"entry"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Sylvia Plath - 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