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Living with her mother in Switzerland during the time of World War II, Madge moves from the concerns of childhood to the edge of the more adult woes of love and loss, separation and community. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Women and Language, published by George Mason University on March 22, 1993. The length of the article is 3480 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: Hilda Doolittle's (H.D.) poetry of the 1930s may be interpreted as an affirmation of spirituality. 'The Dancer' is part of a collection of three poems in which the title figure embodies female creativity and spirituality. The character turns inward for self-confirmation. In this respect the poem differs from earlier narratives that link female identity with male external influences.

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Title: The muse's dance: H.D.'s 'The Dancer' as spiritual metaphor. (poem by Hilda Doolittle)
Author: Joyce Owens
Publication: Women and Language (Refereed)
Date: March 22, 1993
Publisher: George Mason University
Volume: v16Issue: n1Page: p49(4)

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The Lessways household, consisting of Hilda and her widowed mother, was temporarily without a servant. ... Read more

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Brilliant reworkings of Euripides' classic dramas by the great modernist poet H.D., now available in one volume.

H.D.'s 1927 adaptation of Euripides's Hippolytus Temporizes and her 1937 translation of Ion appeared midpoint in her career. These two verse dramas can both be considered as "freely adapted" from plays by Euripides; they constitute a commentary in action, and in this regard resemble the Oedipus plays of W. B. Yeats and Ezra Pound's Women of Trachis.

In the first play, the young man Hippolytus is obsessed with the virgin goddess Artemis and discovers the depth of his passion with the sensual Phaedra, his disguised stepmother: this experience brings self-knowledge and death. The heroine Kreousa in Ion attempts to poison Ion when she fails to recognize him as her son by Apollo and sees instead an outsider and possible usurper of her throne.

H.D.'s translations of the Greek were greatly admired by T. S. Eliot. In her reworkings, she creates modern versions of classic plays, enabling her to explore her favorite poetic themes. Sigmund Freud (with whom H.D. was undergoing analysis just before she embarked on Ion) commended her translations; and after writing them, H.D. was able to go on to write Helen in Egypt, "a sweeping epic of healing and integration." These marvelous versions attest to H.D.'s claim that "the lines of this Greek poet (and all Greek poets if we have but the clue) are today as vivid and as fresh as they ever were." ... Read more

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Over 180 masterpieces appear in this tribute to one of the 20th century’s most radical poetic movements. Imagist gems in this definitive collection include works by Ezra Pound, D. H. Lawrence, H. D. (Hilda Doolittle), James Joyce, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, and many others.
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An Evocative Introduction to Modernity
In a brief, accessible, and inexpensive book, Bob Blaisdell and Dover Thrift have created a fine selection of poems from the "Imagist" movement which changed the direction of American and English poetry in the early 20th Century.The precise nature of "Imagism" has been much discussed.Some of the more famous, succinct forumlations of its creed were "Not ideas of the thing but the thing itself."and, simply, "make it new".Imagism wanted to turn away from late 19th Century poetry with what the new writers perceived as its sometimes stilted diction, involuted syntax, forced rhymes, and forced sentiment and return to the object, to a way of seeing things freshly through precise speech.In Bob Blaisdell's brief introduction to this book, he discusses the principles of Imagism as Richard Aldington, the first poet to appear in the collection, formulated them:1.Direct treatment of the subject; 2.As few adjectives as possible; 3. A hardness as of cut stone; 4. Individuality of rhythm; 5. A whole lot of dont's; 6. The exact word.

W.C. Williams's poem "To a Solitary Disciple" (page 137 of the collection) offers a good poetic summation of imagist practice.It begins:

"Rather notice, mon cher,
that the moon is
tilted above
the point of the steeple
than that its color
is shell-pink.

Rather observe
that it is early morning
than that the sky
is smooth
as a turquoise"

The collection includes 180 poems by 17 poets. The selections were culled from the pages of the "little magazines" of poetry that presented works of the new movement between 1913 and 1922. The poets receiving the most space are, understandably enough, D.H. Lawrence, Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens, and W.C. Williams.
It will be a joy to a reader coming to these poets for the first time.The book also includes many lesser known but important writers such as Richard Aldington, H.D. Amy Lowell, and others.Thus the book, short and accessible as it is, does not constitute simply a collection of favorites.It is a fine introduction to imagism and to the spirit of our modern age including both well-known and lesser-known figures.

This book can be enjoyed and savored simply for what it is -- an inexpensive collection of many of the poems illustrating the modernist temprament.As such, the book will offer many hours of reading and rereading.Equally important, the book could also serve as an introduction for those who want to learn more, to explore further the development of American or English poetry in the Twentieth Century.

Wonderful introduction to Imagist poetry.........
.....with a phenomenal price tag. If you are just curious about different types of poetry (as I am) or wish to learn specifically about Imagism, don't pass this one up!

This anthology contains more than 180 poems by the best known Imagists: James Joyce, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, Ezra Pound, D.H. Lawrence, Richard Aldington, among about a dozen others. The reader experiences the full range of Imagist poetry.

Imagism, which had it's emergence in the 1910s, is distinct in that each poet is permitted to find his/her own rhythm without constraint, subjects are treated directly, the language is precise, adjectives are used sparingly, and there is little rhyming. In effect, Imagism, which was considered radical at the time, ultimately widened the definition of poetry written in English.

I found in reading this collection, that there were rhythms that I distinctly did and did not respond to. Thus, I found poets that I discovered I liked and responded to and others that clearly did not do the same for me. I always found the topics of each poem worthy, however. Few seemed frivilous, but rather centered on topics of love, religious worship, nature, death, among others that emphasized meaning that far transcended mere words. Particularly, if you enjoy original, detailed descriptions of our natural world, I think you'll respond to many of the poems contained in this anthology.

The one item I felt was lacking was that there was no bio for each poet. I would have liked a brief (paragraph or two) intro to each poet, particularly because several of the names were new to me. Otherwise, I'd have given the collection five stars.

An unforgettable collection of masterpieces.
Of all the movements in 20th century literature, Imagism is my favorite.If you're as sick as I am of angry,modern, "confessional" poets (yes, I'm sure your childhood was awful, now see a therapist and get on Prozac), then take a look at this collection.While some of the poems here are widely anthologized (including Wallace Steven's, "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird" and William Carlos Williams's, "To Waken an Old Lady"), most haven't been seen except by literati.It's truly a shame, because one of the "rules" of the Imagist movement was clarity of prose and vision.Take this gem from Richard Aldington, for example: "The chimneys, rank on rank,/ Cut the clear sky;/ The moon/ With a rag of gauze about her loins/ Poses among them, an awkward Venus---/ And here I am looking wantonly at her/ Over the kitchen sink."Wow!The Imagist movement was about nature, and unexpected beauty; things we haven't seen much of in late 20th/early 21st century art.In my opinion, this affordable little book is worth ten times the cover price."Confessional" poetry?If I want to read about child molestation or how awful the world is, I'll read the newspaper, thank you.

Great Selection of work
I bought this book because of the low price and enjoy because of the vast amount of work. Yeah. ... Read more

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These poems originally appeared in Life & Letters Today, December, 1935. ... Read more

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With Unpublished Letters By Freud To The Author. ... Read more