H.D.’s friends and lovers were a veritable Who’s Who of modernism, and Hollenberg gives us a glimpse into H.D.’s relationships with them.
With rich detail, the biography follows H.D. from her early years in America with her family to her later years in England during both world wars to Switzerland, which would eventually become H.D’s home base. It explores her love affairs with both men and women; her long friendship with Bryher; the birth of her daughter, Perdita, and her imaginative bond with her; and her marriage to (and later divorce from) fellow poet Richard Aldington. Additionally, the book includes scenes from her relationships with Ezra Pound, Marianne Moore, William Carlos Williams, and D.H. Lawrence; H.D.’s fascination with spiritualism and the occult; and H.D’s psychoanalysis with Sigmund Freud. The first new biography of H.D. to be published in over four decades, Winged Words is a must-read resource for anyone conducting research on H.D.
By:
Donna Krolik Hollenberg
Imprint: The University of Michigan Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions:
Height: 229mm,
Width: 152mm,
Weight: 340g
ISBN: 9780472133017
ISBN 10: 0472133012
Pages: 360
Publication Date: 22 June 1960
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
,
Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Prologue Part One: Early Years and First Loves (1886-1913) Chapter 1: Bethlehem Years, 1886-1895 Chapter 2: The Years in Upper Darby, PA, 1896-1909 Chapter 3: The Frances Gregg Period, 1910-1913 Part Two: Imagism, World War One, and Personal Loss, 1913-1918 Chapter 4: H.D., Imagism, the Onset of War and a Still Birth, 1913-1915 Chapter 5: Changing Partners in the “War Tornado,” 1916-1918 Part Three: New Family and New Forms of Art, 1918-1931 Chapter 6: The “Mysteries of Vision” and the Healing Power of Art, 1918-1920 Chapter 7: Travels and a New Menage, 1920-1923 Chapter 8: More Prose, a New Lover, and an Introduction to Avant-Garde Film, 1924-1927 Chapter 9: More Film, Endings and Beginnings, 1928-1931 Part Four: Psychoanalysis and Renewal, 1932-1939 Chapter 10: Travels and Analysis with Freud, 1932-1934 Chapter 11: Gradual Regenerations and the Onset of War, 1935-1939 Part Five: London, World War Two and its Aftermath, 1939-1954 Chapter 12: World War Two and the War Trilogy, 1939-1945 Chapter 13: Breakdown, Switzerland, and Prose Fiction, 1946-1950 Chapter 14: Becoming a Grandmother and the Creation of Helen in Egypt, 1951-1954 Part Six: A New Love before Facing Death, 1955-1961 Chapter 15: Heydt, An Accident, Occult Research, and More Poetry, 1955-1958 Chapter 16: More Poetry, Recognition, and a Fatal Illness, 1959-1961 Epilogue Bibliography Index
Donna Krolik Hollenberg is Professor Emerita at the University of Connecticut.
Reviews for Winged Words: The Life and Work of the Poet H.D.
"""Hollenberg gathers together in one place a fine-grained prose timeline presenting the facts about where H.D. was, who she was with, what she was reading, and what was going on during every period of her remarkable life. This is an invaluable resource to scholarship as a rich source of facts and insights into H.D. and her work."" --Matte Robinson, St. Thomas University--Matte Robinson, St. Thomas University"
