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Hilda Doolittle

NYU Press, 1992

A Wonderful Edition
A wonderful edition of a phenomenal book. Though unfinished, H.D.'s 'Paint it Today' is rich with symbolism and imagery. Bulding from allusions to many writers of antiquity, H.D. provides inspirational and emotive lines articulating sentiments of love and truth. As H.D. writes, "The fiance had shown Midget what love might be or become if one, in desperation, should accept the shadow of an ...

End to Torment: A Memoir of Ezra Pound

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H. D. (Hilda Doolittle)

New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1979

A tough read but still beautiful poetry
End of Torment can be viewed as an indepth clarification of Hermione. The book (or journal) was written at the time of Pound's hospitalization, and Hilda has a lot to say about her ex. However, HD still has her way with words (or play on words) and symbolic imagery, which can make this read a sweat. Nevertheless, it still is beautiful poetry and should not be overlooked. Also included is ...

Notes on Thought and Vision

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Hilda Doolittle (H.D.)

City Lights Publishers, 2001

Delicate, Not Brittle by Padma J. Thornlyre
At her best, H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) is a poet. Her novels all display a poet's sense of immediacy, but are sometimes confusing for their interior "scapes" which are frequently all too fluid. Her poetry, however, directs the "flow" deliberately and masterfully. "Notes on Thought and Vision" is a rare example (like Nikos Kazantzakis's "The Saviors of God") wherein the distinction between poetry and ...

Helen in Egypt (A New Directions book)

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H. D. (Hilda Doolittle)

W W Norton & Co Inc, 1979

H.D.: The Long Journey to Freedom
The poet H.D. [Hilda Doolittle] was born in Bethlehem, PA to an academic family. Her father, Charles Doolittle, was a Professor of Mathematics and Astronomy. "Everything revolved around him," Hilda wrote many years later. He was stern, patriarch, and hard to impress. At Bryn Mawr College, she met Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams. Under Pound's tutelage, she began writing poetry. ...

Collected Poems, 1912-1944 (H.D.)

3 reviews
H. D. (Hilda Doolittle)

New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1986

H.D.: The Essential Imagist
For lovers of modernist literature, this tome is a must. Including her first published book and covering the period until (and through) her astounding achievement in her war Trilogy, the Collected Poems allows a reader to fully get to know H.D. in all her many moods. Also including poetry from the period in which she was undergoing psychoanalysis with Freud, the poems give a full picture of ...

HERmione

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Hilda Doolittle, H

New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1981

A portrait of the artist...
...as a genius. There are a lot of threads to follow in this layered and evocative monster of a novel. Here are a couple to follow. To start with, there's the Shakespeare business. While it's true that this is a "fictionalized" autobiography, it's also clearly a response to themes in The Winter's Tale--think of Hermione "turned to stone," and of hardness of heart. Then there's the ...

Analyzing Freud: Letters of H.D., Bryher, and Their Circle

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H. D. (Hilda Doolittle)

New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2002

Seminal addition to History Of Psychology reference shelves
Deftly compiled and edited by Susan Stanford Friedman (Virginia Woolf Professor of English and Women's Studies and Chair of the English Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison), Analyzing Freud: Letters of H. D., Bryher, And their Circle is a fascinating, informative primary source providing invaluable insights into the life and work of the famous father of modern psychoanalysis -- Sigmund ...

Imagist Poetry: An Anthology (Dover Thrift Editions)

4 reviews
Ezra Pound, D. H. Lawrence, ...

Dover Publications, 1999

An unforgettable collection of masterpieces.
Of all the movements in 20th century literature, Imagism is my favorite. If you're as sick as I am of angry, modern, "confessional" poets (yes, I'm sure your childhood was awful, now see a therapist and get on Prozac), then take a look at this collection. While some of the poems here are widely anthologized (including Wallace Steven's, "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird" and William ...

Trilogy

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H. D. (Hilda Doolittle), Aliki Barnstone

New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1998

A Counterpoint to Eliot's Four Quartets
H.D.'s "Trilogy" was written about the same time as Eliot's "Four Quartets." It's a shame H.D.'s war-poem/philosopy-poem isn't as well known as Eliot's. Eliot deals with time and timelessness--or the eternal within time--and while his verse is very seductive and beautifully interweaves the abstract and the concrete, it merely points to sublimity, never really reaches it. H.D.'s ...

H. D. Selected Poems

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H. D. [Hilda Doolittle]

Deutsch, 1957

Incomplete, but a useful introduction to H.D.
Selected Poems of H.D. Compiled by Norman Pearson NY: Grove Press, Inc., 1957 128 pages This group of H.D. poems was gathered almost two decades before the Imagist was newly-visited by both scholars and the general reader. Norman Holmes Pearson, a poet who would become one of H.D.'s biggest publishing backers, has chosen poems both popular, and those well-known. From the mysterious ...

Pilate's Wife

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H. D. (Hilda Doolittle), H.D.

New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2000

Disappointing to say the least
This novel was started in 1924, completed in 1929, revised in 1934 and rejected for publication by Houghton Mifflin. It was revised again in the 50's and eventually published - in defference to its historical important I presume. The novel is worthy of its rejection. It is similar to D. H. Lawrence's The Man Who Died in its presenting the death and resurrection of Jesus as a trick played with ...

Great Poems by American Women: An Anthology (Dover Thrift Editions)

1 review
Anne Bradstreet, Phillis Wheatley, ...

Dover Publications, 1998

For the Sentimentalists
I bought this Dover Thrift knowing that I would at least like a few of the poems, and even one great poem would be worth a measly dollar. These are poems that speak of the greatness of America, or the treachery of slavery, or other such things that bring tears to your eyes if you don't fall asleep before its over. Now don't get me wrong, every poem in this book marks a great step for women in ...

Asphodel

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Hilda Doolittle) H.D.

Duke University Press, 1992

H.D. Through the Looking Glass
With _Asphodel_, Hilda Doolittle takes her readers across the Atlantic and introduces them to the literati of the early twentieth century. Her thinly veiled portrayals of Ezra Pound, Dorothy Shakespear, William Carlos Williams, and D.H. Lawrence are insightful and perhaps far more accurate than any biography would dare to be. While it is difficult to believe that she was as naive an ingenue ...

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