Collected Poems 1912-1944 (Revised) by Hilda Doolittle

Collected Poems 1912-1944 (Revised)

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Collected Poems 1912-1944 (Revised)

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Collected Poems 1912-1944 (Revised)

by Hilda Doolittle

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Of special significance are the "Uncollected and Unpublished Poems (1912-1944)," the third section of the book, written mainly in the 1930s, during H. D.'s supposed "fallow" period.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 was Pound, acting as the London scout for Poetry magazine, who helped her begin her extraordinary career, penning the words "H. D., Imagiste" to a group of six poems and sending them on to editor Harriet Monroe in Chicago. The Collected Poems 1912-1944 traces the continual expansion of H. D.'s work from her early imagistic mode to the prophetic style of her "hidden" years in the 1930s, climaxing in the broader, mature accomplishment of Trilogy. The book is edited by Professor Louis L. Martz of Yale, who supplies valuable textual notes and an introductory essay that relates the significance of H. D.'s life to her equally remarkable literary achievement.
Book Details
Publisher:
New Directions Publishing Corporation
ISBN:
9780811209717
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
672
Authors:
Hilda Doolittle
Published Date:
1986-02-17
Language:
English
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About Hilda Doolittle

H.D. (1886–1961) published under initials Ezra Pound gave her, scrawling H.D. Imagiste at the foot of her poems. She became a leader of the Imagist movement. Born Hilda Doolittle in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, she married the poet Richard Aldington in 1913 and later formed a lifelong companionship with the novelist Bryher. Freud analysed her from 1933, an experience that produced Tribute to Freud. Sea Garden appeared in 1916 and Hymen in 1921; Hermetic Definition came from New Directions in 1972, eleven years after her death in Zurich. The American Academy of Arts and Letters gave her its Award of Merit Medal for poetry in 1960.

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