By Avon River
Lara H. D.. Ed(S): Vetter
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Description for By Avon River
paperback. H.D. called By Avon River "the first book that really made me happy." In this annotated edition, Lara Vetter argues that the volume represented a turning point in H.D.'s career, a major shift from lyric poetry to the experimental forms of writing that would dominate her later works. Editor(s): Vetter, Lara. Num Pages: 192 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 11. Weight in Grams: 290.
H.D. called By Avon River “the first book that really made me happy.” In this annotated edition, Lara Vetter argues that the volume represented a turning point in H.D.’s career, a major shift from lyric poetry to the experimental forms of writing that would dominate her later works.
Near the end of World War II, after having remained in London throughout the Blitz, H.D. made a pilgrimage to Stratford-upon-Avon, Shakespeare’s birthplace. This experience resulted in a hybrid volume of poetry about The Tempest and prose about Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Featuring a tour-de-force introduction and extensive explanatory notes, this ... Read more
H.D. called By Avon River “the first book that really made me happy.” In this annotated edition, Lara Vetter argues that the volume represented a turning point in H.D.’s career, a major shift from lyric poetry to the experimental forms of writing that would dominate her later works.
Near the end of World War II, after having remained in London throughout the Blitz, H.D. made a pilgrimage to Stratford-upon-Avon, Shakespeare’s birthplace. This experience resulted in a hybrid volume of poetry about The Tempest and prose about Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Featuring a tour-de-force introduction and extensive explanatory notes, this ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University Press of Florida United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Florida, United States
ISBN
9780813062372
SKU
V9780813062372
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About Lara H. D.. Ed(S): Vetter
H.D. (1886-1961) is an American expatriate writer whose work exerted enormous influence on modernist poetry and prose. Lara Vetter is associate professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and author of Modernist Writings and Religio-scientific Discourse: H.D., Loy, and Toomer.
Reviews for By Avon River
Vetter's new introduction, notes, and glossary provide an invaluable guide to the writer's historical and literary references without miring the text in the kind of pedantry and dry intellectualism its author so disliked"". London Times Literary Supplement “Superb. Vetter’s incisive introduction offers one of the first approaches to theorizing women’s late modernist literary production as advancing specifically hybrid works ... Read more