Initially this seemed worth reading on the grounds that it is autobiographical, because I have been introduced to H.D. through her poems; her skills as a poet are reflected in the superb writing, which sustains interest regardless of plot, being beautiful, but it never seems to me to particularly ad...
Trilogy – three sets of 43 poems each – opens by painting an impression of London after the Blitz, an experience which she likens to the destruction of Pompey, and she looks to the ancient world to help interpret this modern catastrophe. The work evolves, though, into an exploration of the importan...
Trilogy – three sets of 43 poems each – opens by painting an impression of London after the Blitz, an experience which she likens to the destruction of Pompey, and she looks to the ancient world to help interpret this modern catastrophe. The work evolves, though, into an exploration of the importan...
The poems from Sea Garden were accessible enough, but quite soon, in the selection from The God, my smart-phone was commissioned to check the Greek references. Euridyce in particular is only intelligible if the relevant myth is familiar, but once explained the poem stands out as clever and touchin...
The poems from Sea Garden were accessible enough, but quite soon, in the selection from The God, my smart-phone was commissioned to check the Greek references. Euridyce in particular is only intelligible if the relevant myth is familiar, but once explained the poem stands out as clever and touchin...
Hilda Doolittle (1886-1961) was an American poet who moved to London in 1911, where she remained until she removed to Switzerland in 1946. She was an early feminist and an unapologetic bisexual. Indeed, over lengthy periods of time she was involved in ménages à trois. At the age of fifteen she met E...
Re-reading this book was magical, and one can see H. D.'s growth as a female writer among mostly male counterparts—her characterization of George Lowndes (Ezra Pound) is particularly scathing in a lovingly oppressive way only H. D. can mange to convey; one can also see her emerging into a voice enti...
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