Chapter: Companions of the Flame: Teaching H.D. with Other Modern Poets

Chapter: Companions of the Flame: Teaching H.D. with Other Modern Poets

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This chapter appears in the book, Approaches to Teaching H.D.’s Poetry and Prose. Edited by Annette Debo and Lara Vetter.

Chapter abstract: Here I posit that H.D., now recognized as a significant and innovative poet, might be placed right in the conceptual center of a course on modern poetry, enmeshed in a web of modernist practice and concerns that includes the foundational revisions of imagism; vision, prophecy, and the occult; the shift from lyric to epic form; engagement with old and new mythologies; linguistic and formal experimentation; a rejection of the hegemonic; interrogation of gender and sexuality; and the trauma of war.  This chapter examines H.D. in relation to a variety of other poets, including Pound, Williams, Stein, Moore, Owen, and Hughes.

ISBN

9781603291033

Publication Date

2011

Publisher

Modern Language Association

City

New York

Keywords

Hilda Doolittle, Poetry, Modernism, Feminism

Disciplines

American Literature | Literature in English, North America | Women's Studies

Chapter: Companions of the Flame: Teaching H.D. with Other Modern Poets

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