Helen in Egypt
Poetry
$44.33
- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
1 February 1974
Summary
The fabulous beauty of Helen of Troy is legendary. But some say that Helen was never in Troy, that she had been conveyed by Zeus to Egypt, and that Greeks and Trojans alike fought for an illusion. A fifty-line fragment by the poet Stesichorus of Sicily (c. 640-555 B.C.), what survives of his Pallinode, tells us almost all we know of this other Helen, and from it H. D. wove her book-length poem. Yet Helen in Egypt is not a simple retelling of the Egyptian legend but a recreation of the many myths surrounding Helen, Paris, Achilles, Theseus, and other figures of Greek tradition, fused with the mysteries of Egyptian hermeticism.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780811205443 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0811205444 |
| Author: | Hilda Doolittle |
| Publisher: | New Directions Publishing Corporation |
| Imprint: | New Directions Publishing Corporation |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 1 February 1974 |
| Weight: | 289g |
| Dimensions: | 23mm x 135mm x 203mm |
| Series: | New Directions Books |
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Hilda Doolittle
H.D. (1886-1961) (the pen name of Hilda Doolittle) was born in the Moravian community of Bethlehem, PA in 1886. A major twentieth century poet with “an ear more subtle than Pound’s, Moore’s, or Yeats’s” as Marie Ponsot writes, she was the author of several volumes of poetry, fiction, essays, and memoirs. She is perhaps one of the best-known and prolific women poets of the Modernist era. Bryher Ellerman was a novelist and H.D.’s wealthy companion. She financed H.D.’s therapy with Freud.
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