HD (Hilda Doolittle, 1886-1961) wrote "Hermetic Definition" at the height of her poetic powers. With her celebrated War Trilogy ("The Walls Do Not Fall", "Tribute to the Angels", and "Flowering of the Rod"), it transcends her earlier purist style, ac...

HD's war "Trilogy" ranks with Eliot's "Four Quartets", Pound's "Pisan Cantos" and poems like Edith Sitwell's "Still Falls the Rain" as civilian war poetry in a war which tore apart so many of the cities of Europe. The outer violence of the scene touc...

Bringing together "Writing on the Wall", composed some ten years after H.D's stay in Vienna, and Advent, a journal she kept at the time of her analysis there, "Tribute to Freud" offers a rare glimpse into the consulting room of the father of psychoan...