Author:
Hollenberg, Donna Krolik, author.
ImprintAnn Arbor [Michigan] : University of Michigan Press, 2022.
Imprint2022
Descriptionvi, 378 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Note:Prologue -- Part One. Early Years and First Loves (1886-1913) -- Bethlehem Years, 1886-1895 -- The Years in Upper Darby, PA, 1896-1909 -- The Frances Gregg Period, 1910-1913 -- Part Two. Imagism, World War One, and Personal Loss, 1913-1918 -- H.D., Imagism, the Onset of War and a Still Birth, 1913-1915 -- Changing Partners in the "War Tornado," 1916-1918 -- Part Three. New Family and New Forms of Art, 1918-1931 -- The "Mysteries of Vision" and the Healing Power of Art, 1918-1920 -- Travels and a New Menage, 1920-1923 -- More Prose, a New Lover, and an Introduction to Avant-Garde Film, 1924-1927 -- More Film, Endings and Beginnings, 1928-1931 -- Part Four. Psychoanalysis and Renewal, 1932-1939 -- Travels and Analysis with Freud, 1932-1934 -- Gradual Regenerations and the Onset of War, 1935-1939 -- Part Five. London, World War Two and its Aftermath, 1939-1954 -- World War Two and the War Trilogy, 1939-1945 -- Breakdown, Switzerland, and Prose Fiction, 1946-1950 -- Becoming a Grandmother and the Creation of Helen in Egypt, 1951-1954 -- Part Six. A New Love before Facing Death, 1955-1961 -- Heydt, An Accident, Occult Research, and More Poetry, 1955-1958 -- More Poetry, Recognition, and a Fatal Illness, 1959-1961 -- Epilogue.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-359) and index.
Note:"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 Because the majority of H.D.'s oeuvre was unpublished until recently, author Donna Hollenberg, who's written three previous books about H.D., is able to account for and analyze significantly more of H.D.'s work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."-- Provided by publisher.
