... ignored by critics who prefer to look at the more complex, aesthetically rich artifacts of high modernism. No wonder that Eileen Gregory’s ‘‘H.D.’s Heterodoxy: The Lyric as a Site of Resistance’’ tries to invest the work of this high modernist with the same political energy that Van...

... another that dis- cusses the artistic impact of the political Left on Brown, Langston Hughes, and other African American poets. A book about the intertex- tuality of H.D. and Sapphic Hellenism adds to a growing discussion. Another study of modernism’s ‘‘queer poetics’’ in five women...

... of “The Hill Wife,” “Once by the Pacific,” “Never Again Would Birds’ Song Be the Same,” and “Spring Pools.” Nevertheless, the introduction and selection work together to develop an argument about what is best in Frost’s writing. vi  H.D. In The American H.D. (Iowa, 2012) Annette Debo investigates...

... of these studies include close-reading as a strategy, most attend not so much to form as to the contexts and cultural implications of poetry. Another sense of location informs books, essays, and tributes to the influence in literary history of H.D., Frost, and others. Finally, several essays take up...

... in a newly published edition of her 1928 book of essays Contemporaries and Snobs; impersonality is a key term in a book by Christina Walter (addressed in the sections on H.D. and Mina Loy); and the concept is compared to Elizabeth Bishop’s poetic reticence at several points in The Cambridge Companion...

... collection of the correspondence among Sigmund Freud, H.D., Winifred Bryher, and the members of their ‘‘circle Critics continue to pay a good deal of attention to Robert Frost and Wallace Stevens, while interest in H.D., Marianne Moore, and Robert Penn Warren is definitely waxing. Callaloo celebrates...

... and Wallace Stevens, have accounted for approximately (allowing for multiple-author studies) three books per year; Robert Frost was the subject of two books per year, and Marianne Moore, H.D., and W. H. Auden one book. This year is unusual because there is no book from an American publisher exclusively...

... the reach and depth of the commitment to this way of thinking. Even Anderson in her study of mysticism in H.D. emphasizes the material basis for religious experience and belief. American Literary Scholarship (2015) doi 10.1215/00659142-3826216 © 2017 by Duke University Press 316...

... and the semantic content of poems must be accounted for together. Consequently, the modernist belief in an absolute rhythm is misguided. e Classics in Modernist Translation, ed. Miranda Hickman and Lynn Kozak (Bloomsbury), features several essays on H.D., the his- torical ction of Laura Riding...

... of Trina’s rolling naked in gold coins or Vandover’s transformation into a wolflike brute. ii  High Modernism: Stein, Barnes, and H.D. Although Gertrude Stein remains a locus for the study of high mod- ernism, there is also significant scholarly attention this year to Djuna Barnes and H.D...

... in possibility, The Angle of a Landscape, and There s a certain slant of light and claims that Brooks s Children of the Poor, reaching for that same poetics, proclaims the sovereignty of lyric intimacy. Jeff Westover 325 iv H.D. In A Curious Peril: H.D. s Late Modernist Prose (Florida, 2017) Lara Vetter...

... a meaning that will be disclosed to the discerning reader— Grossman’s essay does the service he claims Crane’s poem does: it gives rise to thinking. Higher praise for a critical essay is difficult to imagine. viii  H.D. Crane is characterized by metaphors of building (and the breaking...

... White: H.D., Elizabeth Bishop, Sylvia Plath, and Whiteness (Greenwood) is perhaps the oddest of the odd. It begins with ‘‘A Poetics of Presumption an introduction, needlessly disrupted every few paragraphs with subtitles, which seems to attempt to explain the ‘‘white’’ of its title: ‘‘Loosely...

... to accommodate both the need for social expression and the need to create art that would meet the new standards endorsed by white liberal intellectuals. Similarly, Lara Vetter’s Modernist Writings and Religio-Scientific Discourse: H.D., Loy, and Toomer (Palgrave) says little about particular poems...

... Hughes’s relationships to Claude McKay, Countee Cullen, and Toomer. iii  H.D. In “H.D.’s Erotic and Aesthetic Gospel in Notes on Thought and Vision” (Paideuma 351, i–ii: 91–117) Catherine A. Rogers reminds us that Notes on Thought and Vision (1919) was written at the close of a crucial period...

... of hendecasyllabics in For Once, Then, Something, he argues that the poet s aim is . . . to mark the transformation of the metrical form when brought into contact with New England intonation. v H.D. In Are You Giving Yourself to Me to Make a Self Sacrifice, Pronoun Shifts, and the Creation of Self in H.D. s...

... us and ‘‘discovers the common source of the elegy and the blues v Amy Lowell, H.D. Three long articles challenge or enlarge on established feminist narratives and interpretations of aspects of the lives and works of Amy Lowell and H.D., thereby making signiŽcant contributions to the Želd...

... in O’Connor’s fiction with a strong sense of the divine and demonic presences so that the reader is constantly kept on a threshold between material and spiritual. f. 20th-Century Poetry H.D.’s Poetry: ‘‘The Meanings that Words Hide ed. Marina Camboni (AMS), contains five essays by Italian scholars...

... then gave, evidently without changing a word, to international acclaim. viii  Anglo-American Modernism a. H.D. and Mina Loy  Rachel Potter’s Modernism and Democracy: Literary Culture 1900–1930 (Oxford), a study of London modernism despite its ostensibly more capacious title, contains ambitious...

... The Well of Lone- liness, Djuna Barnes’s Nightwood, Virginia Woolf’s Orlando, Gertrude Stein’s The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, and H.D.’s HER—in which the writers try to come to terms with “cultural and personal tensions between homosexuality and heterosexuality, and to find a language...