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Record Nr.

UNINA9910456392703321

Autore

H. D. <1886-1961.>

Titolo

Between history & poetry [[electronic resource] ] : the letters of H.D. & Norman Holmes Pearson / / edited by Donna Krolik Hollenberg

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, c1997

ISBN

1-58729-114-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (327 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

PearsonNorman Holmes <1909-1975.>

HollenbergDonna Krolik

Disciplina

811/.52

B

Soggetti

Poets, American - 20th century

Editors - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Editorial Statement; Introduction: ""A Whole Deracinated Epoch""; 1. ""New Puritans"" in a Civilian War, 1941-1946; 2. ""Dear Norman, C.H.E.V.A.L.I.E.R.,"" 1946-1951; 3. ""Our Mystery,"" 1952-1954; 4. ""Are You and Erich Perhaps the Dioscuri?"" 1955-1956; 5. ""Another Canyon...Bridged,"" 1957-1959; 6. ""Grove of Academe,"" 1960-1961; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In 1937 William Rose Benet sent a young Yale graduate student, Norman Holmes Pearson, to interview the sophisticated expatriate poet Hilda Doolittle during one of the few trips she made to America after going abroad in 1911. Until her death in 1961, they engaged in a prolonged and wide-ranging relationship vital to H.D.'s development as a writer. Perhaps because she was absent from the American scene, H.D. was eager for more contact with American writing, and Pearson became her literary adviser, agent, executor, confidant, close friend, and self-styled ""chevalier"". This annotated selection o