Title: H.D. and Sapphic modernism, 1910-1950
First published: 1999
Description: "Diana Collecott proposes that Sappho's presence in H.D.'s work is as significant as that of Homer in Pound's and of Dante in Eliot's. She undertakes a radical revision of H.D.'s Hellenism and her imagism, relating both to the literary and sexual politics of the First World War period. Connecting the fragmentary condition of Sappho's writings with the erasure of women within modernism and the silencing of lesbians in the wider culture, she traces the Sapphic in H.D.'s prose and poetry and in its modern contexts. Her exploration develops a lesbian poetics not only for H.D. but also for contemporaries such as Bryher, Amy Lowell and Virginia Woolf and for successors such as Audre Lorde, Adrienne Rich and Olga Broumas."--Jacket.
Subjects: Greek influences, Literature, Women and literature, Knowledge, Lesbians' writings, American, History and criticism, Influence, Appreciation, Modernism (Literature), Greek poetry, American poetry, Hellenism in literature, Lesbians in literature, History, H. d. (hilda doolittle), 1886-1961, Sappho, Lesbians' writings, history and criticism, Greek poetry, history and criticism, Hellenism, Knowledge and learning
Places: United States
People: Sappho, H. D. (1886-1961)
Time periods: 20th century
LC classification: PS3507.O726 Z615 1999