Helen
H.D. (Hilda Doolittle), “Helen” from Collected Poems 1912-1944. Copyright © 1982 by The Estate of Hilda Doolittle. Reprinted with the permission of New Directions Publishing Corporation.
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Poet H. D. 1886–1961
POET’S REGION U.S., Mid-Atlantic
SCHOOL / PERIOD Imagist
Subjects Heroes & Patriotism, Mythology & Folklore, Greek & Roman Mythology
Poetic Terms Free Verse, Imagist
Biography
H.D.’s life and work recapitulate the central themes of literary modernism: the emergence from Victorian norms and certainties, the entry into an age characterized by rapid technological change and the violence of two great wars, and the development of literary modes which reflected the disintegration of traditional symbolic systems and the mythmaking quest for new meanings. H.D.’s oeuvre spans five decades of the twentieth . . .
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SUBJECT Heroes & Patriotism, Mythology & Folklore, Greek & Roman Mythology
POET’S REGION U.S., Mid-Atlantic
SCHOOL / PERIOD Imagist
Poetic Terms Free Verse, Imagist
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