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by: Eileen Gregory
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 811.52
EAN: 9780521430258
ISBN: 0521430259
Label: Cambridge University Press
Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 336
Publication Date: September 28, 1997
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Sales Rank: 3091242
Studio: Cambridge University Press
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H.D. and Hellenism: Classic Lines concerns a prominent aspect of the writing of the modern American poet H.D. (Hilda Doolittle): a career-long engagement with hellenic literature, mythology, and art. Eileen Gregory's exhaustive treatment of H.D.'s poetic engagement with Greece is one of the few studies of a modern poet in relation to hellenism. She explores at length H.D.'s intertextual engagement with specific classic writers, and catalogues classical allusions in H.D.'s lyric poetry.
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Rating: - A new direction in interpreting HD's Classical engagement
As a graduate student (about to finish my dissertation on H.D.) I have been reading this book for 6 years; I've read some chapters as many as 6 or 7 times and I'm still learning from it. The depth of Gregory's understanding and thoughtful, nuanced discussion of this poet's use of Classicism is unprecedented.
In the past, books like Thomas Swann's "The Classical World of H.D." mostly dismissed or tried to excuse H.D.'s use of Classical allusion; Swann concluded (and other critics like ... Read More
Rating: - excerpt from review in Choice, by S. Hoover, Alfred U.
Gregory enlarges understanding of the influence of Hellenism, especially Alexandrian, on the literature of the earthy 20th century and on the work of H.D. Her detailed scholarship is delightfully readable and informative....Highly recommended for undergraduates, graduate students and scholars. A significant contribution to H.D. studies.
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