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Collected Poems 1912-1944
Hilda Doolittle
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Description for Collected Poems 1912-1944
Paperback. Series: New Directions Paperbook. Num Pages: 668 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 153 x 35. Weight in Grams: 894.
Of special significance are the "Uncollected and Unpublished Poems (1912-1944)," the third section of the book, written mainly in the 1930s, during H. D.'s supposed "fallow" period. As these pages reveal, she was in fact writing a great deal of important poetry at the time, although publishing only a small part of it. The later, wartime poems in this section form an essential prologue to her magnificent Trilogy (1944), the fourth and culminating part of this book. Born in Pennsylvania in 1886, Hilda Doolittle moved to London in 1911 in the footsteps of her friend and one-time fiancé Ezra Pound. Indeed it ... Read more
Of special significance are the "Uncollected and Unpublished Poems (1912-1944)," the third section of the book, written mainly in the 1930s, during H. D.'s supposed "fallow" period. As these pages reveal, she was in fact writing a great deal of important poetry at the time, although publishing only a small part of it. The later, wartime poems in this section form an essential prologue to her magnificent Trilogy (1944), the fourth and culminating part of this book. Born in Pennsylvania in 1886, Hilda Doolittle moved to London in 1911 in the footsteps of her friend and one-time fiancé Ezra Pound. Indeed it ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1986
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation United States
Number of pages
668
Condition
New
Series
New Directions Paperbook
Number of Pages
672
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780811209717
SKU
V9780811209717
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About Hilda Doolittle
A feminist icon as well as a major twentieth-century poet, H. D. (the pen name of Hilda Doolittle, 1886–1961) wrote several volumes of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction and was an exquisite translator of classical Greek drama. Louis L. Martz's publications included "The Paradise Within: Studies in Vaughan, Traherne, and Milton," "Poet of Exile: a Study of Milton's Poetry" and "Many ... Read more
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