Hilda Doolittle

H. D. (Hilda Doolittle)

The fabulous beauty of Helen of Troy is legendary. But some say that Helen was never in Troy, that she had been conveyed by Zeus to Egypt, and that Greeks and Trojans alike fought for an illusion. A fifty-line fragment by the poet Stesichorus of Sicily (c. 640-555 B.C.), what survives of his Pallinode, tells us almost all we know of this other Helen, and from it H. D. wove her book-length poem. Yet Helen in Egypt is not a simple retelling of the Egyptian legend but a recreation of the many myths surrounding Helen, Paris, Achilles, Theseus, and other figures of Greek tradition, fused with the mysteries of Egyptian hermeticism.

Helen in Egypt

Written by Hilda Dolittle, this set of three poems--including The Walls Do Not Fall, Tribute to the Angels, and The Flowering of the Rod--emphasizes the horrors of war and the passion for survival that it inspires. Reprint.

Trilogy

Gathers poems from each period of Hilda Doolittle's career and includes background information on her major works

Collected Poems, 1912-1944

An autobiographical novel tells of a college girl driven to a nervous breakdown by conflicting aspects of her personality

HERmione

Hermione Gart, a young American newly arrived in Europe, begins to test for the first time the limits of her sexual and artistic identities

Asphodel

In this hitherto unpublished memoir, the poet who signed herself H. D. recreates the world of her childhood in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and in a country house outside Philadelphia

The Gift

H. D.

HD, Hermetic Definition. Late poems from H.D. embracing the passion of an elderly life.

Hermetic Definition

Eva Gallud

El don es un collage formado por recuerdos y bellas imágenes fragmentadas: la naturaleza comprendida a través del detalle, sueños a medio recordar, juguetes bajo el árbol, retazos de conversaciones adultas escuchadas por casualidad. ‘El don’ nos invita a explorar la juventud de una de las escritoras más fascinantes del siglo XX, Hilda Doolittle. En estas memorias psicológicamente ricas y técnicamente innovadoras, resuenan el amor y la guerra, el nacimiento y la muerte, preocupaciones centrales de su obra, en la que reconstruye el género, el lenguaje y el mito para ponerlos al servicio de una búsqueda propia. Como antídoto contra la destructividad de su entorno, invoca la herencia mística de su familia materna, un poder que se revelará en su propia escritura.

El Don

Like every major artist she challenges the reader's intellect and imagination.--Boston Herald

Selected Poems

Sea Garden

The Walls Do Not Fall

D. H. Schaffner

Perdita Schaffner

H.D.'s Nights is about one woman's attempt to get to the essence of her bisexuality and failed marriage through an illicit heterosexual affair--an attempt that eventually ends in suicide. Much like a mystery novel, we are given the clues to the writer Natalia Saunderson's death: a muff and watch left beside a frozen pond and two parallel skating lines that meet. Following her drowning, Natalia's manuscripts, a kind of experimental diary, are delivered to a publisher friend, and they provide the details which lay bare the often painful story. Publisher's note.

Nights

Poems deal with myth, nature, envy, freedom, individuality, art, and love

Ezra Pound

D. H.

End to Torment: A Memoir of Ezra Pound is the deeply personal journal kept by the poet H. D. (Hilda Doolittle. 1886-1961) in 1958, the year Ezra Pound was released from St. Elizabeth's in Washington, D.C., and returned to Italy. H. D., hospitalized in Switzerland from a fall, was urged to put down on paper, once and for all, her memories of Pound, which reached back to 1905, when she was a freshman at Bryn Mawr and he a graduate student at the University of Pennsylvania. They had been engaged for a period, and what began as a brief romance developed into a lifetime's friendship and collaboration in poetry. Throughout the reminiscence runs H. D's conviction that her life and Pound's had been irrevocably entwined since those early days when they had walked together in the Pennsylvania woods and he wrote for her verse after William Morris, Rossetti, Swinburne, and Chaucer. Twenty-five of these poems, handbound in vellum by Pound and called "Hilda's Book," are published here for the first time as an epilogue to this important and moving document. Publisher's note.

A Memoir of Ezra Pound

End to Torment

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Hymen

This late collection, written in the last years of H.D.'s life, is a testament to the fine ear and mythic sense of a poet who is now recognized as one of the greatest of her generation. H. D.’s (Hilda Doolittle, 1884-1961) late poems of search and longing represent the mature achievement of a poet who has come increasingly to be recognized as one of the most important of her generation. The title poem and other long pieces in this collection ("Sagesse" and "Winter Love") were written between 1957 and her death four years later, and are heretofore unpublished, except in fragments. We can see now in proper context her fine ear for the free line, and understand why other poets, such as Denise Levertov, Robert Creeley, and Robert Duncan, find so much to admire in H. D.’s work. As in her earlier books, one level of H.D.’s significant poetic statement derives from her intimate knowledge of and identification with classical Greek and arcane cultures; taken together, these elements make up the poet’s own personal myth. Norman Holmes Pearson, H. D’s friend and literary executor, has contributed an illuminating foreword to this impressive collection. H. D.’s (Hilda Doolittle, 1884-1961) late poems of search and longing represent the mature achievement of a poet who has come increasingly to be recognized as one of the most important of her generation. The title poem and other long pieces in this collection ("Sagesse" and "Winter Love") were written between 1957 and her death four years later, and are heretofore unpublished, except in fragments. We can see now in proper context her fine ear for the free line, and understand why other poets, such as Denise Levertov, Robert Creeley, and Robert Duncan, find so much to admire in H. D.’s work. As in her earlier books, one level of H.D.’s significant poetic statement derives from her intimate knowledge of and identification with classical Greek and arcane cultures; taken together, these elements make up the poet’s own personal myth. Norman Holmes Pearson, H. D’s friend and literary executor, has contributed an illuminating foreword to this impressive collection.

Poetry

"Like every major artist she challenges the reader's intellect and imagination."—Boston Herald Selected Poems, the first selection to encompass the rich diversity of Hilda Doolittle's poetry, is both confirmation and celebration of her long-overdue inclusion in the modernist canon. With both the general reader and the student in mind, editor Louis L. Martz of Yale University (who also edited H.D.'s Collected Poems 1912-1944) has provided generous examples of H.D.'s work. From her early "Imagist" period, through the "lost" poems of the thirties where H.D. discovered her unique creative voice, to the great prophetic poems of the war years combined in Trilogy, the selection triumphantly concludes with portions of the late sequences Helen in Egypt and Hermetic Definition which focus on rebirth, reconciliation, and the reunion of the divided self.

Nathaniel Tarn

The second set of New Directions Poetry Pamphlet series, from the Spring of 2013.

Poetry Pamphlets 5-8 (New Directions Poetry Pamphlets)

A Play in Three Acts

Hippolytus Temporizes

El lenguaje como un encantamiento. Llega ‘El don’ de H. D

 

SINOPSIS

Un collage formado por recuerdos y bellas
imágenes fragmentadas: la naturaleza
comprendida a través del detalle, sueños a
medio recordar, juguetes bajo el árbol,
retazos de conversaciones adultas
escuchadas por casualidad. ‘El don’ nos
invita a explorar la juventud de una de las
escritoras más fascinantes del siglo XX,
Hilda Doolittle.


En estas memorias psicológicamente ricas
y técnicamente innovadoras, resuenan el
amor y la guerra, el nacimiento y la muerte,
preocupaciones centrales de su obra, en la
que reconstruye el género, el lenguaje y el
mito para ponerlos al servicio de una
búsqueda propia. Como antídoto contra la
destructividad de su entorno, invoca la
herencia mística de su familia materna, un
poder que se revelará en su propia
escritura.

Hilda Doolittle

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