The H.D. book /
What began in 1959 as a simple homage to the modernist poet H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) developed into an expansive and unique quest for a poetics that would fuel Duncan's great work into the 1960s and 1970s. A meditation on both the roots of modernism and its manifestation in the writings of H.D.,...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
[2011]
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| Series: | Duncan, Robert, 1919-1988. Works. 2011 ;
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| Summary: | What began in 1959 as a simple homage to the modernist poet H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) developed into an expansive and unique quest for a poetics that would fuel Duncan's great work into the 1960s and 1970s. A meditation on both the roots of modernism and its manifestation in the writings of H.D., Djuna Barnes, Ezra Pound, D.H. Lawrence, Gertrude Stein, William Carlos Williams, Virginia Woolf and many others, Duncan's wide-ranging work is especially notable for illuminating the role women played in creating literary modernism. |
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| Item Description: | A collection of 17 essays, composed from 1959 to 1964. |
| Physical Description: | xi, 678 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 647-660) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780520260757 0520260759 |