67225X1 First Edition. Doubleday & Company, Garden City: 1984. 360 pages. Hardcover with dustjacket in protective mylar cover. Very good condition. Library discard. This biography of the American poet Hilda Doolittle, known as H.D., is by the poet Barbara Guest, and it illustrates how, in the best of biographies, there is a special affinity that allows the author to enter the world of her subject. Enhanced by exclusive access to unpublished material, Herself Defined is a brilliant work of scholarship, and an intimate portrait of H.D. and the circle of novelists, artists, and poets who were her friends: Ezra Pound, D. H. Lawrence, Marianne Moore, T. S. Eliot, William Carlos Williams, and others who blazed new paths in the arts of the twentieth century. Includes an Index. "It is truly one poet writing about another with understanding and sympathy and with great insight." - Louis H. Silverstein, Yale University Library. ISBN: 0385131291 $13.95USD
Click here to order or message the dealer