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A tough read but still beautiful poetry
End of Torment can be viewed as an indepth clarification of Hermione. The book (or journal) was written at the time of Pound's hospitalization, and Hilda has a lot to say about her ex. However, HD still has her way withwords (or play on words) and symbolic imagery, which can make this read asweat. Nevertheless, it still is beautiful poetry and should not beoverlooked. Also included is Hilda's archive of Pound's priceless poems. ... Read more

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HD, Hermetic Definition. Late poems from H.D. embracing the passion of an elderly life ... Read more

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This volume constitutes a biography of two of the founding figures of literary modernism, whose tempestuous love for each other spanned half a century. Best known as the author of "Death of a Hero", Richard Aldington was a poet and translator as well as a biographer who alienated the British establishment with his acerbic "Lawrence of Arabia". H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) was born in America but lived in Europe after 1911. Her early verse established her reputation as a modernist writer at the forefront of experimental expression in both poetry and prose. Her work is often autobiographical and examines her own artistic and sexual relationships with both men and women. Drawing on Aldinton's and H.D.'s intimate correspondence between 1929 and 1961, Zilboorg explores their personal and professional lives, their friendships (particularly with Ezra Pound and D.H. Lawrence), and topics which concerned them both: cultural identity, sexuality and the role of literature in the modern world. This book should appeal both to scholars interested in 20th-century literary history and to the general reader. ... Read more

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This novel, a never before published Roman a clefby the famous imagist writer, H.D. (Hilda Doolittle), that explores H.D.'s love for women, is a lyrical recreation of the love and loss of her friend and first love, Frances Gregg, and of her later meeting with Bryher who was to become H.D.'s lifelong companion. Spanning the years from H.D.'s childhood in Pennsylvania to the birth of her daughter, Perdita, in 1919, this turbulent love story is set against the backdrop of World War I, H.D.'s involvement in early 20th century London literary circles, her brief engagement to American poet, Ezra Pound, and her shattered marriage to British novelist Richard Aldington. Paint it Today is H.D.'s most lesbian novel, a modern, homoerotic tale of passage which focuses almost entirely on the young heroine's search for the sister love which would empower her spiritually, creatively, and sexually.Cassandra Laity's introduction places H.D.'s love for the sexually magnetic, betraying Gregg and for the more nurturing and loyal Bryher in the context of the lesbian romanticism of early modern fiction. her annotations of all Greek references and literary quotations,m as well as, biographical facts represented in the text, provide nuance and detail to this engrossing work. ... Read more

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A Wonderful Edition
A wonderful edition of a phenomenal book. Though unfinished, H.D.'s 'Paint it Today' is rich with symbolism and imagery. Bulding from allusions to many writers of antiquity, H.D. provides inspirational and emotive lines articulating sentiments of love and truth. As H.D. writes, "The fiance had shown Midget what love might be or become if one, in desperation, should accept the shadow of an understanding for understanding itself. . . But there are many colors to our lives, I have been led to believe. The shadow of an understanding is not a bad beginning to one's emotional radius. Against the shadow, the better things show true" (22). This particular edition's endnotes extends the meaning in H.D.'s words, informing readers of mythological, literary and personal allusions. ... Read more

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Boon for scholars, bane for readers
H.D. was seized by a flash of wisdom when she pencilled "DESTROY" across the manuscript of Asphodel; it's a pity her eager publishers didn't heed her sense. As I understand it, this text was coveted by feminist and LGBT scholars who wanted to recover a major work by a lesbian modernist. Unfortunately, Asphodel is major only in the sense that it is long, and modernist only insofar as its landscape is obsessively internal. As for any "lesbian" theme, there's nary a hint of affection, much less desire, for another human being in this tedious aria of self-justification. H.D lays waste to page after page with bitter monologues about how her own exquisitely quivering sensitivities are forced to suffer everyone else's idiocies. It's like reading the diary of an unpopular and astonishingly dense fifteen-year-old.

Wade through this only if you're an H.D. scholar, or if you're really into playing guess-the-literati.

H.D. Through the Looking Glass
With _Asphodel_, Hilda Doolittle takes her readers across the Atlantic and introduces them to the literati of the early twentieth century.Her thinly veiled portrayals of Ezra Pound, Dorothy Shakespear, William CarlosWilliams, and D.H. Lawrence are insightful and perhaps far more accuratethan any biography would dare to be.While it is difficult to believe thatshe was as naive an ingenue as she attests, it is harder still not tosympathize with the youthful poetdetermined to succeed abroad even thoughdiscarded by the charming but inattentive Pound.This novel is one ofH.D.'s best, clearly as strong an example of her writing as _Bid Me toLive_ and _Paint it Today_.While still not consdered a first-rank Modern,Hilda Doolittle is arguably one of the most important literary figures ofher day.Her description of the Moderns abroad is flawless and noexamination of the Modern era can be complete before reading her prose. ... Read more

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More than 200 inspiring poems offer a superb, inexpensive introduction to the women poets of America, from the colonial-era works of Anne Bradstreet and Phillis Wheatley to the modern poetry of Marianne Moore and Sylvia Plath. Other authors include Emily Dickinson, Hilda Doolittle, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Amy Lowell, Emma Lazarus, and many more.
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For the Sentimentalists
I bought this Dover Thrift knowing that I would at least like a few of the poems, and even one great poem would be worth a measly dollar.These are poems that speak of the greatness of America, or the treachery of slavery, or other such things that bring tears to your eyes if you don't fall asleep before its over.Now don't get me wrong, every poem in this book marks a great step for women in poetry, and all of the poems are good.For those who like surrealism and dreamlike imagerythough (like me), this book is more worth buying for the poems such as:"Daddy" (S. Plath's jerking rendering of the thoughts of a half-Jew, half-German woman), "Bluebeard's Closet" (R. Cooke's portrayal of the horrors of the room filled with dead wives), and a few other such of the like.The title, "Great Poems by American Women" should read "Great First Poems by American Women".The great poems of more recent poets were awfully ignored in the making of this mediorce (but hey, not a bad trade for the price) anthology. ... Read more