Signets: Reading H. D.

Signets brings together the best essays on H.D. (Hilda Doolittle). Susan Stanford Friedman and Rachel Blau DuPlessis have gathered the most influential and generative studies of H.D.'s work and complemented them with photobiographical, chronological, and bibliographical portraits unique to this volume.

The essays in Signets span H.D.'s career from the origins of Imagism to late modernism, from the early poems of Sea Garden to the novel HER and the epic poems Trilogy and Helen in Egypt. In addition to the editors, the contributors are Diana Collecott, Robert Duncan, Albert Gelpi, Eileen Gregory, Susan Gubar, Barbara Guest, Elizabeth A. Hirsh, Deborah Kelly Kloepfer, Cassandra Laity, Adalaide Morris, Alicia Ostriker, Cyrena N. Pondrom, Perdita Schaffner, and Louis H. Silverstein. Signets is an essential resource for those interested in H.D., modernism, and feminist criticism and writing.

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A collection of essays on the works of Hilda Doolittle (1886-1961), American author who made a distinct contribution to modern literature as a poet, novelist, essayist, translator, and memoirist. Long neglected, Doolittle's reputation began to grow with the advent of feminism. The collection includes a chronology, a photobiography, and a selection from the poem Biography by H.D. biographer Barbara Guest. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Susan Stanford Friedman is professor of English and women’s studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Her works include Psyche Reborn: The Emergence of H. D. and Penelope’s Web: Gender, Modernity, H. D.’s Fiction. Rachel Blau DuPlessis is professor of English at Temple University. She is author of Writing Beyond the Ending: Narrative Strategies of the Twentieth-Century Women Writers and H. D.: The Career of that Struggle.