HD Selected Poems - Softcover

Doolittle, Hilda

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0811210669 ISBN 13: 9780811210669

Publisher: New Directions, 1988

Synopsis

"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.

About this title

About the Author

H.D. (1886-1961) (the pen name of Hilda Doolittle) was born in the Moravian community of Bethlehem, PA in 1886. A major twentieth century poet with “an ear more subtle than Pound’s, Moore’s, or Yeats’s” as Marie Ponsot writes, she was the author of several volumes of poetry, fiction, essays, and memoirs. She is perhaps one of the best-known and prolific women poets of the Modernist era. Bryher Ellerman was a novelist and H.D.’s wealthy companion. She financed H.D.’s therapy with Freud.

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 Gods and Many Voices: the Role of the Prophet in English and American Modernism." He edited "H.D. (Hilda Doolittle), 1886-1961. Collected Poems, 1912-1944."

Review

“H.D. by the end of her career became not only the most gifted woman poet of our century, but one of the most original poets―the more I read her the more I think this―in our language.”
- Alicia Ostriker, American Poetry Review

Edition details

• Publisher: New Directions
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0811210669
• ISBN 13: 9780811210669
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 198
• Editor: Martz Louis L.