Between history & poetry : the letters of H.D. & Norman Holmes Pearson / edited by Donna Krolik Hollenberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

H. D. (Hilda Doolittle), 1886-1961.

Contributor:

Pearson, Norman Holmes, 1909-1975.

Hollenberg, Donna Krolik.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poets, American--20th century--Correspondence.

Poets, American.

Editors--United States--Correspondence.

Editors.

H. D. (Hilda Doolittle), 1886-1961--Correspondence.

H. D.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (327 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, c1997.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In 1937 William Rose Benet sent a young Yale graduate student, Norman Holmes Pearson, to interview the sophisticated expatriate poet Hilda Doolittle during one of the few trips she made to America after going abroad in 1911. Until her death in 1961, they engaged in a prolonged and wide-ranging relationship vital to H.D.'s development as a writer. Perhaps because she was absent from the American scene, H.D. was eager for more contact with American writing, and Pearson became her literary adviser, agent, executor, confidant, close friend, and self-styled ""chevalier"". This annotated selection o

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Editorial Statement; Introduction: ""A Whole Deracinated Epoch""; 1. ""New Puritans"" in a Civilian War, 1941-1946; 2. ""Dear Norman, C.H.E.V.A.L.I.E.R.,"" 1946-1951; 3. ""Our Mystery,"" 1952-1954; 4. ""Are You and Erich Perhaps the Dioscuri?"" 1955-1956; 5. ""Another Canyon...Bridged,"" 1957-1959; 6. ""Grove of Academe,"" 1960-1961; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781587291142

1587291142

OCLC:

649216610