| Helen in Egypt: Poetry Contributor(s): Doolittle, Hilda (Author) |
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ISBN: 0811205444 ISBN-13: 9780811205443 Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation OUR PRICE: $20.66 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 1974 Annotation: 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. Yet Helen in Egypt is not a simple retelling of the Egyptian legend but a recreation of the many myths surrounding Helen, Paris, Achilles, Theseus, and other figures of Greek tradition, fused with the mysteries of Egyptian hermeticism. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General |
| Dewey: 811.52 |
| LCCN: 00000000 |
| Series: New Directions Books |
| Physical Information: 0.85" H x 5.25" W x 7.99" (0.75 lbs) 304 pages |
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Contributor Bio(s): Doolittle, Hilda: - H.D. (1886-1961) (the pen name of Hilda Doolittle) was born in the Moravian community of Bethlehem, PA in 1886. A major twentieth century poet with "an ear more subtle than Pound's, Moore's, or Yeats's" as Marie Ponsot writes, she was the author of several volumes of poetry, fiction, essays, and memoirs. She is perhaps one of the best-known and prolific women poets of the Modernist era. Bryher Ellerman was a novelist and H.D.'s wealthy companion. She financed H.D.'s therapy with Freud. |