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Winged Words: The Life and Work of the Poet H.D.

Donna Krolik Hollenberg
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Winged Words puts the work of H.D., including her poetry, translations, and prose, in the context of her life. Because the majority of H.D.'s oeuvre was unpublished until recently, author Donna Hollenberg, who's written three previous books about H.D., is able to account for and analyze significantly more of H.D.'s work than previous biographers.

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.
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  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • Prologue / 1
  • I. Early Years and First Loves, 1886–1913
    • 1. Bethlehem Years, 1886–1895
    • 2. The Years in Upper Darby, PA, 1896–1909
    • 3. The Frances Gregg Period, 1910–1913
  • II. Imagism, World War I, and Personal Loss, 1913–1918
    • 4. Imagism, the Onset of War, and a Stillbirth, 1913–1915
    • 5. Changing Partners in the “War-Tornado,” 1916–1918
  • III. New Family and New Forms of Art, 1918–1931
    • 6. The “Mysteries of Vision” and the Healing Power of Art, 1918–1920
    • 7. Travels and a New Ménage, 1920–1923
    • 8. More Prose, a New Lover, and an Introduction to Avant-Garde Film, 1924–1927
    • 9. More Film, Endings, and Beginnings, 1928–1931
    • Illustrations
  • IV. Psychoanalysis and Renewal, 1932–1939
    • 10. Travels and Analysis with Freud, 1932–1934
    • 11. Gradual Regeneration and the Onset of War, 1935–1939
  • V. London, World War II, and Its Aftermath, 1939–1954
    • 12. World War II and the War Trilogy, 1939–1945
    • 13. Breakdown, Switzerland, and Prose Fiction, 1946–1950
    • 14. Becoming a Grandmother and the Creation of Helen in Egypt, 1951–1954
  • VI. A New Love before Facing Death, 1955–1961
    • 15. Heydt, an Accident, Occult Research, and More Poetry, 1955–1958
    • 16. More Poetry, Recognition, and a Fatal Illness, 1959–1961
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
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Published: 2022
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN(s)
  • 978-0-472-22006-9 (ebook)
  • 978-0-472-13301-7 (hardcover)
Subject
  • Literary Studies:20th Century Literature
  • Gender Studies
  • American Studies

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Photo of the siblings Hilda, Gilbert and Harold as young children.

Hilda, Gilbert, and Harold in 1988

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Hilda, Gilbert, and Harold in 1888. H.D. Papers, Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. © Yale University. All rights reserved.

Charles Leander Doolittle sits on metal steps while looking up into a telescope.

Charles Leander Doolittle, ca. 1900

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Charles Leander Doolittle, ca. 1900. H.D. Papers, Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. © Yale University. All rights reserved.

H.D. as a young woman with upswept hair.

H.D., high school graduation picture

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H.D., high school graduation picture. H.D. Papers, Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. © Yale University. All rights reserved.

H.D. with newly bobbed hair and a headband.

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H.D. , 1918. H.D. Papers, Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. © Yale University. All rights reserved.

Ezra Pound seated inside next to a dresser.

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Ezra Pound, seated. H.D. Papers, Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. © Yale University. All rights reserved.

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H.D.'s house in Upper Darby,PA 1907

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H.D.’s house in Upper Darby, PA 1907. H.D. Papers, Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. © Yale University. All rights reserved.

H.D. holding her daughter Perdita, when Perdita was a very young child.

H.D. and Perdita

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H.D. and Perdita. H.D. Papers, Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. © Yale University. All rights reserved.

H.D.’s mother sits on a short wall with her granddaughter Perdita, when Perdita was a child.

Helen Wolle Doolittle and Perdita in Europe, ca. 1924

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Helen Wolle Doolittle and Perdita in Europe ca. 1924. H.D. Papers, Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. © Yale University. All rights reserved.

Bryher leans against a railing outside of her home.

Bryher leaning against a railing at Kenwin

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Bryher leaning against a railing at Kenwin, 1932. H.D. Papers, Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. © Yale University. All rights reserved.

H.D. peers up at a stone structure with hieroglyphics carved into the surface. More stone structures are visible behind her.

H.D. in Egypt

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H.D. in Egypt. H.D. Papers, Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. © Yale University. All rights reserved.

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Kenneth Macpherson

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Kenneth Macpherson, 1929. H.D. Papers, Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. © Yale University. All rights reserved.

Richard Aldington standing while in uniform.

Richard Aldington in uniform

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Richard Aldington in uniform. H.D. Papers, Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. © Yale University. All rights reserved.

Robert Herring, Kenneth Macpherson and Bryher stand together in front of mountains.

Robert Herring, Kenneth Macpherson and Bryher at Spizbergen in 1929

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Robert Herring, Kenneth Macpherson and Bryher at Spitzbergen in 1929. H.D. Papers, Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. © Yale University. All rights reserved.

Walter Schmideberg looking up at something out of frame.

Walter Schmideberg

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Walter Schmideberg. H.D. Papers, Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. © Yale University. All rights reserved.

Close-up of Erich Heydt looking straight into the camera.

Erich Heydt

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Erich Heydt, 1956. H.D. Papers, Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. © Yale University. All rights reserved.

H.D., Norman Holmes Pearson and Bryher sit in front of the ivy-covered Sterling Library at Yale University.

H.D., Norman Holmes Pearson and Bryher in front of Sterling Library, 1956

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H.D., Norman Holmes Pearson and Bryher in front of Sterling Library, Yale University, 1956. H.D. Papers, Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. © Yale University. All rights reserved.

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