Series title from jacket. - A collection of 17 essays, composed from 1959 to 1964
Includes bibliographical references (pages 647-658) and index
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Book 1: Beginnings; Book 2: Nights and Days; Appendix 1: Preliminary Notes toward Book 3 of The H.D. Book; Appendix 2: Composition and Publication History of The H.D. Book; Appendix 3: A List of Works Cited by Robert Duncan in The H.D. Book; Credits; Index
This magisterial work, long awaited and long the subject of passionate speculation, is an unprecedented exploration of modern poetry and poetics by one of America's most acclaimed and influential postwar poets. What began in 1959 as a simple homage to the modernist poet H.D. developed into an expansive and unique quest to arrive at a poetics that would fuel Duncan's great work in the 1970s. A meditation on both the roots of modernism and its manifestation in the work of H.D., Ezra Pound, D.H. Lawrence, William Carlos Williams, Edith Sitwell, and many others, Duncan's wide-ranging book is espec
