1st Printing, 1st Edition hardcover with dustjacket. Full number line shows 1st printing.
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From Publishers Weekly
An often overlooked modernist thinker and poetic innovator (under Pound's heavy influence, she invented the early-20th-century Imagist movement), H.D. was also known for her tendency to write spiritual autobiography. Raised in a Moravian family in Pennsylvania, she worked on this psychologically complex memoir of her childhood in London--to which she expatriated in her early teens--as WWII's bombs rained down. There are some shattering scenes of London during the Blitz as H.D. describes her terror, the calm between raids and her consequent gratefulness for everyday occurrences. The childhood scenes are somewhat obscured by thickets of emotional prose, but H.D. nevertheless evocatively portrays her youthful state of mind and thought, as well as the mystical nature of her belief in--and remembrance of--a lost truth that she is convinced could have changed the world. The book owes much to her spell as apprentice to and analysand of Sigmund Freud: in her notes, H.D. writes, "In assembling these chapters of The Gift, during, before and after the worst days of the 1941 London Blitz, I let the story tell itself or the child tell it for me." Editor and annotator Jane Augustine's well-researched scholarly edition restores the text to its full length and includes H.D.'s own notes.
Copyright 1998 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
The publisher claims that this is the first time the complete text of Hilda Doolittle's memoir has been available. In addition to the restored text, which is about a third longer than previous editions, this contains numerous photographs, notes by Doolittle, and a scholarly introduction and notes by editor Augustine.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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