H. D. and Hellenism: Classic Lines

by Eileen Gregory

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521430259
• ISBN13: 9780521430258
• Release Date: September 1997
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 338 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.3"