The book consists of ten chapters which cover a broad but focused survey of English narrative poetry, and zooms into a selection of narratives from the mainstream canon of Anglophone literature in chronological order, including Shakespeare, Marlowe, Alexander Pope, Wordsworth and Coleridge, Keats, Rossetti, Browning,
Hilda Doolittle, Ted Hughes, Jackie Kay, and Bernandine Evaristo.
Scarti che sempre dunque caratterizzano le riscritture a firma di donne, come mostra l'analisi puntuale che Marina Vitale ("Tracce di Elena") dedica al poema Helen in Egypt di
Hilda Doolittle. La fascinazione operata dal personaggio mitico, destinata a divenire quasi identificazione psicologica, investe anche Achille, la cui nuova configurazione identitaria raggiunta nel poema nel percorso spirituale compiuto con Elena significa conseguimento dello stato di "New Mortai", nuova umanita a cui l'eroe arriva mediante la liberazione dalla mentalita eroica, da quell'universo di "valori 'virili' di violenza e sopraffazione" (160), che Doolittle vedeva compiersi nelle vicende belliche del Novecento.
In 1920, Williams was sharply criticized by many of his peers (like
Hilda Doolittle, Ezra Pound, and Wallace Stevens) when he published one of his most experimental books, "Kora in Hell: Improvisations." Pound called the work "incoherent" and H.D.
El cuestionamiento del estereotipo machista es evidente, cuando el estudio de tres escritoras norteamericanas del siglo XX, como son Sylvia Plath,
Hilda Doolittle o Denise Levertov, le sirven a Rodriguez Herrera para profundizar en la representacion femenina de la autoria de las mujeres y el papel de la clasica figura de la Musa: "la inspiracion, la figura de la musa, es siempre un sitio femenino, y por lo tanto debe encarnarse siempre en una figura de mujer, mientras que la autoria de la obra, al ser un sitio predominantemente masculino, ha de estar representada siempre por hombres" (168).
Ezra Pound has traditionally been seen as the central figure of the Imagist movement, an early movement of modern Anglo-English poetry, but this study highlights the diversity of Imagist writing, concentrating on less-known authors such as
Hilda Doolittle, Amy Lowell, and John Gould Fletcher.
II) as obras das escritoras americanas do inicio desse seculo (Willa Cather,
Hilda Doolittle ...) e nelas se encontra uma Fedra dona do seu destino, uma Fedra que sabe usar de todas as suas armas para acabar vencedora, em claro eco dos movimentos feministas e comportamentos de contestacao protagonizados pelas proprias autoras na vida real, ou ainda quando nelas se descortina o reflexo da difusao das teorias de Freud na sociedade estado-unidense.
"H.D.," in this context, stands not for high-definition television, but for
Hilda Doolittle (1886-1961); that is, H.D.
In between, to name just a few, are Dorothy Parker,
Hilda Doolittle, Mark Van Doren, Robinson Jeffers, e.e.
Lowell's first book of poetry was mostly conventional fare, but after reading a poem by HD (
Hilda Doolittle), who called herself an "imagiste," Lowell declared herself to be an imagiste as well.
Doolittle - United States Air Force officer who electrified the world in 1942 by leading a squadron of 16 bombers on a daylight raid over Tokyo (1896-1993)