Hilda Doolittle (H. D.)

Doolittle, Hilda - pseud. H. D., 1886–1961, American poet, b. Bethlehem, Pa., educated at Bryn Mawr. After 1911 she lived abroad, marrying Richard Aldington in 1913. In England, under the influence of Ezra Pound, she became associated with the imagists and developed into one of the most original poets of the group. Volumes of her verse include Sea Garden (1916), Red Shoes for Bronze Read More...

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1.

The Classical World of H. D.
by Thomas Burnett Swann. 218 pgs.

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Foreword

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Chapter I H. D. and Her Classical Background

Chapter II: Settings and Poems of Place

Chapter III: Heroines, Divine and Mortal

Chapter IV: Heroes, Divine and Mortal

Chapter V: H. D. and Sappho

Chapter VI: Palimpsest

Chapter VII: Hippolytus Temporizes

Chapter VIII: Hedylus

Chapter IX The Hedgehog

Chapter X: The World War II Trilogy

Chapter XI: Helen in Egypt

Chapter XII The Significance of H. D.'s Classical World

Reference Notes

Bibliography

Index

Acknowledgments
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Psyche Reborn: The Emergence of H.D.
by Susan Stanford Friedman. 317 pgs.

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Psyche Reborn: The Emergence of H.D.

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Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I H.D. and Psychoanalytic Tradition

I Freud as Guardian of Beginnings: Biographical Roots of Psychoanalytic Influence

Hieroglyphic Voices: The Unconscious and Psychoanalytic Modes of Translation

3 Delphi of the Mind: The Unconscious as Muse and Prophet

4 "Transcendental Issues": Artist and Scientist in Debate

5 "The Professor Was Not Always Right": Woman and Man in Conflict

Part II H.D. and Religious Tradition

6 Initiations: Biographical Roots of Occult Influence

7 "Companions of the Flame": Syncretist Mythmaking in the Crucible of War

8 "Born of One Mother': Re-Vision of Patriarchal Tradition

9 Poetics of Conflict and Transcendence: Kabbalah and the Search for Wholeness

Notes

Index
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Trilogy
by H. D. 206 pgs.

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Introduction

The Walls Do Not Fall

Tribute to the Angels

The Flowering of the Rod

Readers' Notes

A Note on H.D.'s Life
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Collected Poems, 1912-1944
by H. D., Louis L. Martz. 636 pgs.

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Preface

Introduction

COLLECTED POEMS 1925

Sea Garden 1916

Translations 1915-1920

Hymen 1921

Heliodora 1924

RED ROSES FOR BRONZE 1931

UNCOLLECTED AND UNPUBLISHED POEMS 1912-1944

A Dead Priestess Speaks

TRILOGY

The Walls Do Not Fall

Tribute to the Angels

The Flowering of the Rod

Notes

Index of Titles

Index of First Lines

New Directions Paperbooks--A Partial Listing
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Hermetic Definition
by H. D. 117 pgs.

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Hermetic Definition

Part One: Red Rose and A Beggar

Part Two: Grove of Academe,

Part Three: Star of Day

Sagesse

Winter Love
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Kora and Ka with Mira-Mare
by H. D. 96 pgs.

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Written by H. D. in 1930 and only published in a 100-copy edition for friends in 1934, Kora and Ka marked a new level of intensity in the poet's experiments with prose fiction. The two long stories contained in this volume, "Kora and Ka" and "Mira-Mare", are at once profoundly autobiographical yet, through H. D.'s unusual brand of modernist story-telling, pushed beyond personality. The men and women who haunt these tales are wraiths in spiritual exile, wanderers in a Europe still recovering from the devastations of World War I. Her descriptions of the beaches at Monte Carlo are triumphs of vivid detail - bright watercolors set against brooding psychological portraits. In its exploration of the "broken dualities" of self and civilization, Kora and Ka looks forward to H. D.'s masterpieces, Tribute to Freud and Trilogy.

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INTRODUCTION

A Note on the Text

KORA AND KA.

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MIRA-MARE

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Nights
by H. D. 106 pgs.

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Part I: Prologue

Part Ii: Nights

I: Night

II: Night

III: Night

IV: Night

V: Night

VI: Night

VII: Night

VIII: Night

IX: Night

X: Night

XI: Night

XII: Night
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White Women Writing White: H.D., Elizabeth Bishop, Sylvia Plath, and Whiteness
by Renee R. Curry. 184 pgs.

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Just as the cultural background of readers shapes how they respond to texts, the context in which writers live shapes what they write. This book explores the relationship between three prominent twentieth-century American white women poets and the manifestations of whiteness in their works. The book argues that white women who write do so from within ideological, social, economic, political, and psychological frameworks of whiteness. Each chapter places one poet in relation to historical and cultural racial events prevalent during the time of her writings and explores the particular poems created and published during that period.

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Recent Titles in Contributions in Women's Studies

Copyright Acknowledgments

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Acknowledgments

Chapter 1 Introduction: "A Poetics of Presumption"

Notes

Chapter 2 "Minute Granules on a White Thread": H.D. and a Masterful Whiteness

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Chapter 3 "A Sort of Inheritance; White": Elizabeth Bishop and Selective Self-Reflection on Whiteness

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Chapter 4 "White: It is a Complexion of the Mind": the Enactment of Whiteness in Sylvia Plath's Poetry

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

About the Author
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Queer Poetics: Five Modernist Women Writers (Chap. 6 "'A Curious Secret': H.D. and the Palimpsest of Sexual Identity")
by Mary E. Galvin. 144 pgs.

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A full-length exploration of the relation between poetics and queer theory, Queer Poetics presents a theoretical framework that can illuminate not only the ways we read the specific poetic innovations of the six major writers in this study, but also the ways we read literary modernism itself, by placing both in a different social and epistemological context--that of "queer" existence.

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Preface: Remembering

Acknowledgments

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Chapter 1: Poltergeist of Form: Emily Dickinson and the Reappropriation of Language and Identity

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Chapter 2: Imagery and Invisibility: Amy Lowell and The Erotics of Particularity

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Chapter 3: "This shows it all": Gertrude Stein and the Reader's Role in the Creation of Significance

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Chapter 4: The Rhythms of Experience: Mina Loy and the Poetics of "Love"

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Chapter 5: "Dropping Crooked into Rhyme": Djuna Barnes' Use of Form and the Liminal Space of Gender

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Chapter 6: "A Curious Secret": H.D. and the Palimpsest of Sexual Identity

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Afterword

Notes

Works Cited and Consulted

Index
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Faith of a (Woman) Writer (Chap. 30 "An End to Torment: H.D.'s Metonymic Course")
by Alice Kessler-Harris, William Mcbrien. 358 pgs.

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Reflecting the salient undercurrents of contemporary researh on women writers, this volume is an appraisal of the work of the writer as woman and presents critics' perceptions about how women writers have dealt with the complexity of changing female visions in the 20th century. Each of the 34 essays, contributed by some of today's most distinguished writers, speaks to the work of a particular 20th-century woman writer, and each constitutes a contribution to the scholarly debate.

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1: Introduction

2: The (Woman) Writer

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3: Joyce Carol Oates's the Dead and Feminist Criticism

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4: Acts of Self-Creation: Female Identity in the Novels of Margaret Drabble

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5: Grave Endearing Traditions": Edith Wharton and the Domestic Novel"

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6: Margaret Atwood, Margaret Laurence, and Their Nineteenth-Century Forerunners

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7: The Poetic World of Snezhina Slavova

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8: Kay Boyle: In a Woman's Voice

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9: Two Women: The Transformations

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10: Effects of Urbanization in the Novels of Christiane Rochefort

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11: Irmgard Keun: A German Deviation

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12: Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte and Jean Rhys: What Rhys's Letters Show About That Relationship

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13: Literary Criticism

14: Miles Franklin: Chronicler of the Australian Bush and Early Feminist

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15: Edna St. Vincent Millay--Saint of the Modern Sonnet

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16: Domestic Comedy, Black Comedy, and Real Life: Shirley Jackson, a Woman Writer

17: Records of Survival: The Autobiographical Writings of Marieluise Fleisser and Marie Luise Kaschnitz

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18: Jhabvala's Fiction: The Passage from India

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19: Luise Rinser's Autobiographical Prose: Political Engagement and Feminist Awareness

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20: Women and Choice--A New Look at Simone De Beauvoir and the Second Sex

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21: Virginia, Virginius, Virginity

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22: Sexual Politics and Female Heroism in the Novels of Christina Stead

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23: Agnes Smedley's Cell Mates": A Writer's Discovery of Voice, Form, and Subject in Prison"

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24: The Transformation of Privilege in the Work of Elena Poniatowska

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25: Marguerite Yourcenar's Sexual Politics in Fiction, 1939

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26: A Way of Ordering Experience: A Study of Toni Morrison's the Bluest Eye and Sula

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27: A Voice of Authority

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28: Charlotte Delbo, a Woman/Book

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29: The Case of the Dangling Signifier: Phallic Imagery in Eudora Welty's Moon Lake""

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30: An End to Torment: H.D.'s Metonymic Course

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31: Leslie Stephen Revisited: A New Fragment of Virginia Woolf's A Sketch of the Past""

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32: Defeating the False God: Janie's Self- Determination in Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God

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33: The Woman Warrior: Claiming Narrative Power, Recreating Female Selfhood

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34: In Search of Ordinary Human Happiness": Rebellion and Affirmation in Mary Gordon's Novels"

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Women's Fiction and the Great War (Chap. 11 "HD's War Neurotics")
by Suzanne Raitt, Trudi Tate. 293 pgs.

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The Great War stimulated a sudden growth in the novel industry, and the trauma of the war continued to reverberate through much of the fiction published in the years that followed its inglorious end. The essays in this volume, by a number of leading critics in the field, considers some of the best-known, and some of the least-known, women writers on whose work the war left its shadow. Ranging from Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield, and H.D. to Vernon Lee, Frances Bellerby, and Mary Butts, the contributors challenge current thinking about women's responses to the First World War and explore the differences between women writers of the period, thus questioning the very categorization of "women's writing."

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Introduction

1: Mrs Humphry Ward and the First Casualty of War

2: Payments and Face Values: Edith Wharton's A Son at the Fron

3: 'Contagious ecstasy': May Sinclair's War Journals

4: 'A great purifier': The Great War in Women's Romances and Memoirs 1914-1918

5: The Dissidence of Vernon Lee: Satan the Waster and the Will to Believe

6: The Grotesque and the Great War in to the Lighthouse

7: 'It goes on happening': Frances Bellerby and the Great War

8: 'Still some obstinate emotion remains': Radclyffe Hall and the Meanings of Service

9: Flies and Violets in Katherine Mansfield

10: Mary Butts, Mothers, and War

11: HD's War Neurotic

12: Gertrude Stein and War

Notes on the Contributors

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Index
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The Sublime of Intense Sociability: Emily Dickinson, H.D., and Gertrude Stein
by Shawn Alfrey. 184 pgs.

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Acknowledgments

List of Abbreviations

Introduction: The Sublime of Intense Sociability

1: Discovering "The Mind of Man"

2: concerning the "Traumatic Kernel"

3: Emily Dickinson's Hesitation

4: Constructions of Intersubjective Knowledge in H.D.'s Sublime

5: Gertrude Stein

Conclusion: Mixing the Sublime and the Beautiful

Notes

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Canon, Gender, and Text: The Case of H.D., in College Literature
by Lawrence S. Rainey. 20 pgs.

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Strange Prophecies Anew: Rereading Apocalypse in Blake, H.D., and Ginsberg
by Tony Trigilio. 212 pgs.

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1: Blurring the Line of Vision

2: The "Moment Satan Cannot Find"

3: The Measure of "Deplorable Gaps in Time"

4: "Sanity a Trick of Agreement"

5: Conclusion: Apocalypse without End

Notes

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Index
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The Troubling Play of Gender: The Phaedra Dramas of Tsvetaeva, Yourcenar, and H.D.
by Maria Stadter Fox. 217 pgs.

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1: Introduction: Troubled Performances of Gender

Tragedy

Gender and Genre

The Play-To-Be-Read

From Classical Greece to Modernism

2: Marina Tsvetaeva: Language and the Labyrinth of Letters

Muttersprache and Orpheus

Against Theater

The Subject of Tragedy

Fedra: Labyrinths, Dreams, and Letters

The Difference of Fedra

3: Marguerite Yourcenar: Negotiating a Feminine Authorial Self

Flight from the Feminine

Voice and Gaze

Monologue and Dialogue

Theater: A Labyrinth of Voices

Qui N'A Pas Son Minotaure?—histories of a Play

Ariane et L'Aventurier and Qui N'A Pas Son Minotaure?

Beyond Allegory

The Approach to Greek Myth and Tragedy

Return to the Feminine: Paratexts

The Labyrinth of the World

4: H.D.'s Hippolytus Temporizes: Temporizing with Gender

Contexts of Hippolytus Temporizes

The Matrix of Poetry

Hippolytus Temporizes and the Troubles of Gender

H.D.'s Version of Euripides' Hippolytus

Misperformance of Gender in No-Man's Land

Love and Death in No-Man's Land

Interpreting a Body

Interpretations of Hippolytus Temporizes

Temporizing and the Resistance to Gender

5: Conclusion: Resolution and Dissolution

Notes

Bibliography

Index
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American Women Writers, 1900-1945: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook ("H. D. 'Hilda Doolittle', 1886-1961" p. 87)
by Laurie Champion, Emmanuel S. Nelson. 412 pgs.

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Women writers have been traditionally excluded from literary canons, not until recently have scholars begun to rediscover or discover neglected women writers and their works. This reference includes alphabetically arranged entries on 58 American women authors who wrote between 1900 and 1945, a period that embraces two major artistic movements, Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance. Each entry is written by an expert contributor and includes a biography, a discussion of major works and themes, a review of the author's critical reception, and extensive primary and secondary bibliographies. The volume reflects the diversity of American culture through its coverage of African American, Native American, Mexican American, and Chinese American women writers.

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Introduction

Bess Streeter Aldrich (1881-1954)

Gertrude Atherton (1857-1948)

Mary Hunter Austin (1868-1934)

Djuna Barnes (Lydia Steptoe) (1892-1982)

Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979)

Louise Bogan (1897-1970)

Marita Odette Bonner (1898-1971)

Kay Boyle (1902-1992)

Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973)

Fabiola Cabeza de Baca Gilbert (1894-1991)

Willa Cather (1873-1947)

Anita Scott Coleman (1890-1960)

Rachel Crothers (1878-1958)

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

Alice Maude Ewell (1860-1946)

Jessie Redmon Fauset (1882-1961)

Edna Ferber (1885-1968)

Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1879-1958)

Zona Gale (1874-1938)

Ellen Glasgow (1873-1945)

Susan Keating Glaspell (1876-1948)

Jovita GonzÁLez de Mireles (1904-1983)

Caroline Gordon (1895-1981)

Lillian Hellman (1905-1984)

Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960)

Cleofas M. Jaramillo (1878-1956)

Georgia Douglas Camp Johnson (1877-1966)

Nella Larsen (1891-1964)

Margery Latimer (1899-1932)

Amy Lowell (1874-1925)

Mina Loy (1882-1966)

Clare Boothe Luce (1903-1987)

Mabel Dodge Luhan (1879-1962)

Carson Mccullers (1917-1967)

Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950)

Margaret Mitchell (1900-1949)

Marianne Moore (1887-1972)

Mourning Dove (Hum-Um-Ishu-Mau) [Christine Quintasket] (1882?-1936)

Josephina Niggli (1910-1983)

Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964)

Dorothy Parker (1893-1967)

Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980)

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1896-1953)

Lola Ridge (1873-1941)

Elizabeth Madox Roberts (1881-1941)

Dorothy Scarborough (1878-1935)

Anne Spencer (1882-1975)

Gertrude Stein (1874-1946)

Gene Stratton-Porter (1863-1924)

Sui Sin Far (Edith Maude Eaton) (1865-1914)

Genevieve Taggard (1894-1948)

Sara Teasdale (1884-1933)

Eudora Alice Welty (1909-)

Dorothy West (1907-1998)

Edith Wharton (1862-1937)

Elinor Wylie (1885-1928)

Anzia Yezierska (1883?-1970)

Zitkala-šA (Gertrude Simmons Bonninu) (1876-1938)

Selected Bibliography

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