Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-359) and index.
Contents:
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 I, and Personal Loss, 1913-1918 -- Chapter 4: Imagism, the Onset of War and a Stillbirth, 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 MeĢnage, 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 Regeneration and the Onset of War, 1935-1939 -- Part Five: London, World War II and its Aftermath, 1939-1954 -- Chapter 12: World War II 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.
Summary:
"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 Because the majority of H.D.'s oeuvre was unpublished until recently, author Donna Hollenberg, who's written three previous books about H.D., is able to account for and analyze significantly more of H.D.'s work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.
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