H. D. and Hellenism Classic Lines [Paperback]

Eileen Gregory explores at length H. D.'s intertextual engagement with specific classical writersH.D. and Hellenism: Classic Lines concerns a prominent aspect of the writing of the modern American poet H.D. (Hilda Doolittle): a career-long engagement with hellenic literature, mythology, and art. Eileen Gregory's exhaustive treatment of H.D.'s poetic engagement with Greece is one of the few studies of a modern poet in relation to hellenism. She explores at length H.D.'s intertextual engagement with specific classic writers, and catalogues classical allusions in H.D.'s lyric poetry.H.D. and Hellenism: Classic Lines concerns a prominent aspect of the writing of the modern American poet H.D. (Hilda Doolittle): a career-long engagement with hellenic literature, mythology, and art. Eileen Gregory's exhaustive treatment of H.D.'s poetic engagement with Greece is one of the few studies of a modern poet in relation to hellenism. She explores at length H.D.'s intertextual engagement with specific classic writers, and catalogues classical allusions in H.D.'s lyric poetry.H.D. and Hellenism: Classic Lines concerns a prominent aspect of the writing of the modern American poet H.D. (Hilda Doolittle): a career-long engagement with hellenic literature, mythology, and art. Eileen Gregory's exhaustive treatment of H.D.'s poetic engagement with Greece is one of the few studies of a modern poet in relation to hellenism. She explores at length H.D.'s intertextual engagement with specific classic writers, and catalogues classical allusions in H.D.'s lyric poetry.Introduction; Part I. Contexts: 1. Modern Classicism and the Theatre of War; 2. The Survival of the Classics; 3. Pagan Mysteries: Walter Pater and Romantic Hellenism; 4. Anthropology and the Return of the Gods: Jane Ellen Harrison; Part II. Classical Intertextuality: 5. H. D. and the Classical Lyric; 6. Euripides: Dream Time and Dream Work; Appendix; Notes; Works Cited; Index. Highly recommended for undergraduates (including sol“.