Red Comet

by Heather Clark

  50“May Week Fashions”: Courtesy of Rose Library, Emory University

  51SP in Venice, 1956: Courtesy of Lilly Library and Elizabeth Lameyer Gilmore, photo by Gordon Lameyer

  52SP in Paris, 1956: Courtesy of Lilly Library and Elizabeth Lameyer Gilmore, photo by Gordon Lameyer

  53TH, 1960: Courtesy of Rose Library, Emory University, photo by Hans Beacham

  5418 Rugby Street: © HC

  55Saint George the Martyr: © HC

  56TH and SP in Paris, 1956: Courtesy of Lilly Library, © WP

  57TH and SP in Yorkshire, 1956: Mortimer Rare Book Collection, courtesy of Smith College Special Collections, photo by Harry Ogden

  58Moorland around Haworth: © HC

  59The Beacon, Heptonstall, West Yorkshire: © HC

  60SP writing in Heptonstall, West Yorkshire, 1956: Mortimer Rare Book Collection, courtesy of Smith College Special Collections, © Elinor Friedman Klein

  61Heptonstall village center: © HC

  62Top Withens: © HC

  63Hilltop view of Heptonstall: © HC

  64TH and SP, Cambridge, UK, 1957: Courtesy of Lilly Library, © Peter Lofts Photography / Ramsey and Muspratt, Cambridge, UK

  65TH, Wellesley, 1957: Courtesy of Lilly Library, © Estate of SP

  66SP in New York Harbor (two photos): Mortimer Rare Book Collection, courtesy of Smith College Special Collections, © Estate of TH

  67TH and SP, New York City, 1959: Courtesy of Lilly Library, photo by Oscar Williams

  68SP reading The New Yorker, 1958: Mortimer Rare Book Collection, courtesy of Smith College Special Collections, © Estate of TH

  69TH and SP in their Boston apartment, 1958 (two photos): Courtesy of Rose Library, Emory University, © Black Star

  70SP in Jackson Lake, Wyoming, 1959: Mortimer Rare Book Collection, courtesy of Smith College Special Collections, © Estate of TH

  71TH in North Dakota, 1959: Mortimer Rare Book Collection, courtesy of Smith College Special Collections, © Estate of SP

  72TH at picnic table, Wisconsin, 1959: Mortimer Rare Book Collection, courtesy of Smith College Special Collections, © Estate of SP

  73SP and TH under umbrella, 1959: Courtesy of Rose Library, Emory University

  74SP feeding a deer, 1959: Mortimer Rare Book Collection, courtesy of Smith College Special Collections, © Estate of TH

  75SP rowing at Yellowstone, 1959: Mortimer Rare Book Collection, courtesy of Smith College Special Collections, © Estate of TH

  76, 77, 78, 79Yaddo (four photos): © HC

  80TH and SP in Concord, Massachusetts, 1959: Mortimer Rare Book Collection, courtesy of Smith College Special Collections, © Estate of Marcia Brown Stern

  813 Chalcot Square: © HC

  82SP and TH with baby Frieda, 1960: Mortimer Rare Book Collection, courtesy of Smith, © Smith College Special Collections, photo by Ann Davidow Hayes

  83SP with Frieda, 1961: Helle Collection, courtesy of Smith College Special Collections, © Estate of TH

  84“A Pride of Poets”: Courtesy of Rose Library, Emory University, photo by Philip Day

  85SP’s photos of TH with the Eliots, 1960–61: Courtesy of Rose Library, Emory University, © Estate of SP

  86Court Green, North Tawton, Devon: © HC

  87North Tawton village center: © HC

  88Devon countryside: © HC

  89SP and Frieda, 1962: Courtesy of Lilly Library, © Sue Booth

  90SP and her children, 1962: Courtesy of Rose Library, Emory University, © Siv Arb

  9123 Fitzroy Road, London: © HC

  92View from SP’s window at 23 Fitzroy Road: © HC

  93SP’s grave: © HC

  94, 95, 96, 97All four photos of Assia Wevill and others: Courtesy of Rose Library, Emory University

  98, 99, 100, 101, 102Art by SP (five photos): Courtesy of Lilly Library, © Estate of SP

  A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  HEATHER CLARK earned her bachelor’s degree in English literature from Harvard University and her doctorate in English from Oxford University. Her recent awards include a National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholar Fellowship; a Leon Levy Biography Fellowship at the Graduate Center, City University of New York; a Visiting U.S. Fellowship at the Eccles Centre for American Studies, British Library; and a Yaddo residency. A former visiting scholar at the Oxford Centre for Life-Writing, she is the author of two award-winning books on postwar poetry, The Grief of Influence: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes and The Ulster Renaissance: Poetry in Belfast 1962–1972. Her work has appeared in publications including the Harvard Review, The Times Literary Supplement, PN Review, and Thumbscrew. A native Cape Codder, she divides her time between Chappaqua, New York, and Yorkshire, England, where she is professor of contemporary poetry and director of the Centre for International Contemporary Poetry at the University of Huddersfield.

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