The H.D. book [[electronic resource] /] / Robert Duncan ; edited and with an introduction by Michael Boughn and Victor Coleman

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910459472303321
• Autore: Duncan Robert <1919-1988.>
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2011
• ISBN: 1-282-91792-7; 9786612917929; 0-520-94802-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (693 p.)
• Collana: The collected writings of Robert Duncan ; ; 1
• Altri autori (Persone): BoughnMichael; ColemanVictor <1944->
• Disciplina: 814/.54
• Soggetti: Poetry, Modern - 20th century - History and criticism - Theory, etc; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: A collection of 17 essays, composed from 1959 to 1964.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Book 1. Beginnings -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7 -- Chapter 8 -- Chapter 9 -- Chapter 10 -- Chapter 11 -- 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 1970's. 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 especially notable for its illumination of the role women played in creation of literary modernism. Until now, The H.D. Book existed only in mostly out-of-; print little magazines in which its chapters first appeared. Now, for the first time published in its entirety, as its author intended, this monumental work-at once an encyclopedia of modernism, a reinterpretation of its key players and texts, and a record of Duncan's quest toward a new poetics-is at last complete and available to a wide audience.