Asphodel

"This novel . . . is a considerable lyric meditation on femaleness, sexual and maternal choices, and the meanings of war, history, and violence. Its publication adds a striking text to the modernist canon."--Rachel Blau DuPlessis, author of "H.D.: The Career of that Struggle"

About the author

H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) was born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania in 1886. In 1911 she went to Europe where, with Ezra Pound and Richard Aldington, she became a leading member of the Imagist movement. She published many volumes of poetry, from Sea Garden in 1916 to Helen in Egypt in 1961, the year of her death. Her novels include Bid Me to Live (A Madrigal) and HERmione.

Summary

Takes the reader into the bohemian drawing rooms of pre-World War I London and Paris, a milieu populated by such thinly disguised versions of Ezra Pound, Richard Aldington, May Sinclair, Brigit Patmore, and Margaret Cravens.

Product details

• Authors: Hilda Doolittle, Hilda Doolittle (H D, Hilda Doolittle (H D. )., Hilda Doolittle (H.D.), H, H D
• Assisted by: Robert Spoo (Editor)
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.08.1992
• EAN: 9780822312406
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-1240-6
• No. of pages: 240
• Weight: 635 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; Moderne und zeitgenössische Belletristik