H. D. and Hellenism

Classic Lines

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Hardcover | 16 March 1998

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H. D. and Hellenism: Classic Lines concerns a prominent aspect of the writing of the modern American poet H. D. (Hilda Doolittle): a lifelong engagement with hellenic literature, mythology and art. H. D.'s hellenic intertextuality is examined in the context of classical fictions operative at the turn of the century: the war of words among literary critics establishing a new 'classicism' in reaction to romanticism; the fictions of classical transmission and the problem of women within the classical line; nineteenth-century romantic hellenism, represented in the writing of Walter Pater; and the renewed interest in ancient religion brought about by anthropological studies, represented in the writing of Jane Ellen Harrison. Eileen Gregory explores at length H. D.'s intertextual engagement with specific classical writers: Sappho, Theocritus and the Greek Anthology, Homer and Euripides. The concluding chapter sketches chronologically H. D.'s career-long study and reinvention of Euripidean texts. An appendix catalogues classical subtexts in Collected Poems, 1912-1944, edited by Louis Martz.

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' ... groundbreaking as a study of the transmission and influence of classical literature in American poetry.' Bryn Mawr Classical Review

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Contexts
Modern Classicism and the theater of war: Romantic, Classic, Modern
Aeschylus versus Euripides
War and nostalgia
The survival of the classics: the Alexandrian project
Transmission and the female line
Touring with father: H. D. and Pausanias
Pagan Mysteries: Walter Pater and Romantic Hellenism: Hermeticism and the exiled Gods
Aescesis: Crystal and Salt; the Dorian model and white eroticism
Anthropology and the return of the Gods: Jane Ellen Harrison: Keres: Korai: Dionysos at Eleusis
Sacred marriage and sacred child
Dromenon and drama
Classical Intertextuality
H. D. and the Classical lyric: 'perfected subtle breath of metre'
Euripidean choros: 'little, but all roses'
Fragments of Sappho
'adequately Alexandrian':Theocritus and the Greek anthology: 'his wine-dark sea' Homer and the Heroic
Euripides: dream-time and dreamwork: initiations
Choruses and essays
Thresholds
Hippolytus Temporizes
Mourning the mother
Electra-Orestes
Aetiology: Euripides' Ion
Eidolon: Helen in Egypt
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