H. D.1886-1961
Author
Publisher
New Directions
Language
English
Description
"This brings together all the shorter poems and poetical sequences of Hilda Doolittle written before 1945. Divided into four parts, this landmark volume, now available as a New Directions Paperbook, includes the complete Collected Poems of 1925 and Red Roses For Bronze." --
2) Ion
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ion (Ancient Greek: Ἴων, Iōn) is an ancient Greek play by Euripides, thought to be written between 414 and 412 BCE. It follows the orphan Ion in the discovery of his origins.
Outside the temple of Apollo at Delphi, Hermes recalls the time when Creusa, the daughter of Erectheus, mated with Apollo in a cave at Long Rocks under the Acropolis. Apollo concealed her pregnancy from her father and Creusa
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Publisher
New Directions Pub. Corp
Pub. Date
[1988]
Language
English
Description
"It is only now, more than a hundred years after her birth and more than twenty-five years after her death, that H.D. is frequently called a "major artist." The new Selected Poems, the first selection to encompass the rich diversity of H.D.'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...
Author
Series
New Directions paperbook ; 362
Publisher
[New Directions]
Pub. Date
[1973]
Language
English
7) Nights
Author
Publisher
New Directions
Pub. Date
[1986]
Language
English
Description
H.D.'s Nights is about one woman's attempt to get to the essence of her bisexuality and failed marriage through an illicit heterosexual affair--an attempt that eventually ends in suicide. Much like a mystery novel, we are given the clues to the writer Natalia Saunderson's death: a muff and watch left beside a frozen pond and two parallel skating lines that meet. Following her drowning, Natalia's manuscripts, a kind of experimental diary, are delivered...
8) The gift
Author
Publisher
New Directions
Pub. Date
[1982]
Language
English
Description
In this hitherto unpublished memoir, the poet who signed herself H.D. recreates the world of her childhood in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and in a country house outside Philadelphia.
9) Trilogy
Author
Series
New Directions paperbook ; 866
Publisher
New Directions
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
"This reissue of the classic Trilogy, by H.D. (Hilda Doolittle, 1886-1961), now includes a new introduction and 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, published in the midst of the "fifty...
