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by: H. D. (Hilda Doolittle)
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 811.52
EAN: 9780811205443
ISBN: 0811205444
Label: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Manufacturer: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 304
Publication Date: 1974-11
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Sales Rank: 320349
Studio: New Directions Publishing Corporation
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Rating: - H.D.: The Long Journey to Freedom
The poet H.D. [Hilda Doolittle] was born in Bethlehem, PA to an academic family. Her father, Charles Doolittle, was a Professor of Mathematics and Astronomy. "Everything revolved around him," Hilda wrote many years later. He was stern, patriarch, and hard to impress.
At Bryn Mawr College, she met Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams. Under Pound's tutelage, she began writing poetry. He gave her the moniker "H.D.," and they became engaged. On an August day in a museum tearoom, ... Read More
Rating: - How to Describe...?
How to describe this book? Doolittle's dexterity with our language, her soft langurous voice, the layers upon layers of depth underlying each of the stanzas? It is impossible. Having read the Greek lyrics and tragedians, and that other beacon, Shakespeare, I am still at a loss to do justice to Doolittle's "Helen in Egypt." I can only tell you one thing: read it. But if you do, do it slowly, with care and attention to each of the lines, with long pauses to allow them to sink in, and let yourself be seduced ... Read More
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