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Helen in Egypt - H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) -  "The poem is as easy to read as breathing: it could be danced, it could be sung, the clarity of image is so perfect… Tremendous suggestiveness and magnetic force radiate from the scenes… H. D.'s verse has the balance, the amplitude and the clean outlines of a Greek temple."  —Nation Hilda Doolittle, Egypt Museum, Helen Of Troy, Female Poets, Greek Tradition, American Poetry, All We Know, The Poet, Poetry Collection

The fabulous beauty of Helen of Troy is legendary. But some say that Helen was never in Troy, that she had been conveyed by Zeus to Egypt, and that Greeks and Trojans alike fought for an illusion. A fifty-line fragment by the poet Stesichorus of Sicily (c. 640-555 B.C.), what survives of his Pallinode, tells us almost all we know of this other Helen, and from it H. D. wove her book-length poem.

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Hilda Doolittle, Unsolved Mystery, States Of Consciousness, Like A Lion, Cave Paintings, Old Paintings, Third World, Greek Gods, New Directions

This autobiographical novel, an interior self-portrait of the poet H. D. (1886-1961) is what can best be described as a “find,’ a posthumous treasure. In writing HERmione, H.D. returned to a year in her life that was “peculiarly blighted.” She was in her early twenties––”a disappointment to her father, an odd duckling to her mother, an importunate, overgrown, unincarnated entity that had no place… Waves to fight against, to fight against alone…’I am Hermione Gart, a failure’––she cried in…

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