2015: The Year of Reading Women discussion

Let's look at and talk about the crystalline poetry of Hilda Doolittle!

Eric wrote: "Let's look at and talk about the crystalline poetry of Hilda Doolittle!"

And prose! Definitely recommend HERmione to anyone who hasn't read it: a must-read for the YoRW for those who haven't, I think!

I adore H.D., so glad to see someone starting a thread for her.

Eric wrote: "Let's look at and talk about the crystalline poetry of Hilda Doolittle!"

I've read a lot of her Helen in Egypt but have never been able to finish it. That's not saying she's not good. She's very good. But that will be one of the things I'll be reading next year.

TPOIA!

"According to the Pallinode, Helen was never in Troy. She had been transposed or translated from Greece into Egypt. Helen of Troy was a phantom, substituted for the real Helen, by jealous deities. The Greeks and the Trojans alike fought for an illusion."

Do not despair, the hosts
Surging beneath the Walls,
(no more than I) are ghosts;

do not bewail the Fall,
the scene is empty and I am alone,
yet in this Amen-temple

I hear their voices,
there is no veil between us,
only space and leisure

and long corridors of lotus-bud
furled on the pillars,
and the lotus-flower unfurled,

with reed of the papyrus;
Amen (or Zeus we call him)
brought me here;

fear nothing of the future or the past,
He, God, will guide you
bring you to this place,

as he brought me, his daughter,
twin-sister of twin-brothers
and Clytaemnestra, shadow of us all;

the old enchantment holds,
here there is peace
for Helena, Helen hated of all Greece.

Proustitute wrote: "Eric wrote: "Let's look at and talk about the crystalline poetry of Hilda Doolittle!"

And prose! Definitely recommend HERmione to anyone who hasn't read it: a must-read for the YoRW for those who ..."

Yes I intend to do that piece my duty, too. The one thing of her prose I have read, End to Torment, I didn't really enjoy. Felt too much like a drawn-out in-joke.

Yes- will be reading HERmione this year for sure

As will I.

Oh, poetry... I never can resist.... will lurk.

Thanks for the link! I was just checking on whether H.D. was here yet. Her Goodreads author link has a fair amount about her.

Helen in Egypt

Look forward to hearing what others suggest in addition. Brain Pain did this one awhile back, so there is a discussion there to tap as well.

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/list_...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.D.