Winged words : the life and work of the poet H.D. / Donna Krolik Hollenberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hollenberg, Donna Krolik, author.

Contributor:

Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan), publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

H. D.

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

Poets, American.

American literature--20th century--History and criticism.

American literature.

Genre:

Biographies.

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

vi, 378 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Life and work of the poet H.D.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor [Michigan] : University of Michigan Press, 2022.

Summary:

"Winged Words puts the work of H.D., including her poetry, translations, and prose, in the context of her life. Because the majority of H.D.'s oeuvre was unpublished until recently, author Donna Hollenberg, who's written three previous books about H.D., is able to account for and analyze significantly more of H.D.'s work than previous biographers. H.D.'s friends and lovers were a veritable Who's Who of modernism, and Hollenberg gives us a glimpse into H.D.'s relationships with them. With rich detail, the biography follows H.D. from her early years in America with her family to her later years in England during both world wars to Switzerland, which would eventually become H.D's home base. It explores her love affairs with both men and women; her long friendship with Bryher; the birth of her daughter, Perdita, and her imaginative bond with her; and her marriage to (and later divorce from) fellow poet Richard Aldington. Additionally, the book includes scenes from her relationships with Ezra Pound, Marianne Moore, William Carlos Williams, and D.H. Lawrence; H.D.'s fascination with spiritualism and the occult; and H.D's psychoanalysis with Sigmund Freud. The first new biography of H.D. to be published in over four decades, Winged Words is a must-read resource for anyone conducting research on H.D"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: I. EARLY YEARS AND FIRST LOVES (1886-1913)

1. Bethlehem Years, 1886-1895

2. The Years in Upper Darby, PA, 1896-1909

3. The Frances Gregg Period, 1910-1913

II. IMAGISM, WORLD WAR I, AND PERSONAL LOSS 1913-1918

4. Imagism, the Onset of War, and a Stillbirth, 1913-1915

5. Changing Partners in the "War-Tornado," 1916-1918

III. NEW FAMILY AND NEW FORMS OF ART, 1918-1931

6. The "Mysteries of Vision" and the Healing Power of Art, 1918-1920

7. Travels and a New Menage, 1920-1923

8. More Prose, a New Lover, and an Introduction to Avant-Garde Film, 1924-1927

9. More Film, Endings, and Beginnings, 1928-1931

IV. PSYCHOANALYSIS AND RENEWAL, 1932-1939

10. Travels and Analysis with Freud, 1932-1934

11. Gradual Regeneration and the Onset of War, 1935-1939

V. LONDON, WORLD WAR II, AND ITS AFTERMATH, 1939-1954

12. World War II and the War Trilogy, 1939-1945

13. Breakdown, Switzerland, and Prose Fiction, 1946-1950

14. Becoming a Grandmother and the Creation of Helen in Egypt, 1951-1954

VI. A NEW LOVE BEFORE FACING DEATH, 1955-1961

15. Heydt, an Accident, Occult Research, and More Poetry, 1955-1958

16. More Poetry, Recognition, and a Fatal Illness, 1959-1961.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-359) and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Hollenberg, Donna Krolik. Winged words.

ISBN:

9780472133017

0472133012

OCLC:

1258781909