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by: H. D. (Hilda Doolittle), Aliki Barnstone
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 811.52
EAN: 9780811213998
ISBN: 0811213994
Label: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Manufacturer: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 206
Publication Date: 1998-09
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Reading Level: Young Adult
Sales Rank: 172311
Studio: New Directions Publishing Corporation
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This reissue of the classic 'Trilogy' by H.D. (Hilda Doolittle, 1886-1961), now includes a large section of referential notes for readers and students, compiled by Professor Aliki Barnstone. As civilian war poetry (written under the shattering impact of World War II). 'Trilogy's' three long poems rank with T.S. Eliot's 'Four Quartets' and Ezra Pound's 'Pisan Cantos.' The first book of the Trilogy, 'The Walls Do Not Fall,' published in the midst of the 'fifty thousand incidents' of the London blitz, maintains the hope that though 'we have no map; / possibly we will reach haven,/ heaven.' 'Tribute to Angels' describes new life springing from the ruins, and finally, in 'The Flowering of the Rod'--with its epigram '...pause to give/ thanks that we rise again from death and live.'--faith in love and resurrection is realized in lyric and strongly Biblical imagery.
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Rating:  - A Counterpoint to Eliot's Four Quartets
H.D.'s "Trilogy" was written about the same time as Eliot's "Four Quartets."
It's a shame H.D.'s war-poem/philosopy-poem isn't as well known as Eliot's.
Eliot deals with time and timelessness--or the eternal within time--and while his verse is very seductive and beautifully interweaves the abstract and the concrete, it merely points to sublimity, never really reaches it.
H.D.'s "Trilogy," really reaches it. There are many many epiphanies made concrete, and ... Read More
Rating:  - The Violence Drove Me Inward
Poems of angels and gems and fragrance and stars, all written on the downward slope of WWII. H.D. praises the life that survives, the mythic returns of Amen-Ra and Christ, which is also the first budding of spring. London joins in these poems with Karnak and St. John's second city, Paradise--a resurrection of "our earth before Adam," that "grain or seed/opened like a flower." Angels and Magi bring their usual good news, but the last word belongs to Mary Magdalene and the goddesses behind her, ... Read More
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