Egyptian Cat Postcard from H.D. files. Public Domain.
Just a reminder. There are three quick ways to stay posted on H.D.-related news and information:
Please pass along society contact information to your friends and colleagues who are studying H.D. and her circle.
Photo images of Marianne Moore, William Carlos Williams, Ezra Pound, and H.D. from the cover image of the (Modernist) Social Network Facebook Group Page, posted by Eric Alan Weinstein. UPenn.
Join this Facebook Group, The (Modernist) Social Network Williams H.D. Pound Moore, for a weekly free, open seminar hosted by Eric Alan Weinstein at UPenn.
Recent seminars have featured Susan McCabe discussing Paint It Today (written in 1919) and Rebecca Bowler introducing Borderline (1930).
Check out this blog post about the material details of a first edition of H.D.’s Palimpsest by a student researcher at the Watkinson Library at Trinity College.
Book Cover H.D.,’s Palimpsest from the I Found It at the Watkinson! Blog
Screen Shot of the Timeline of H.D.’s Publications
For a multimedia bibliography of H.D.’s publications, including both dates of composition and publication, see this interactive timeline.
This project was compiled by Celena E. Kusch and Kristian Wilson in 2014-2015, with entries based on information in the Silverstein Chronology.
Screen Shot of Node Map of H.D. Correspondents
Although H.D.’s circle extends beyond the people in her files of correspondence, it is possible to map her circle of friends, acquaintances, and correspondents, based on her archives. The map below shows all of her correspondents based on the finding aids in the Beinecke, Bryn Mawr, and several other special collections libraries (Go to SpicyNodes to see it in full screen). Any overlaps with Bryher’s files of correspondence are also indicated. Click any name to expand and explore further connections. Contacts are nested under the people who introduced H.D. to them. Created by Dr. Celena E. Kusch, co-chair H.D. International Society.
James J. Conway’s Strange Flowers blog includes brief profiles of H.D., Bryher, and members of their social and literary circles. This posting also features a brief glimpse of some of those circles in a graphic format.
Source: Circles: H.D./Bryher | Strange Flowers
City Lights Bookshop featured the Pool Film, Monkey’s Moon, on its Web site.
“Pool Films resulted from the creative collaboration of writers Kenneth Macpherson and Bryher (Annie Winifred Ellerman) and Imagist poet H. D. (Hilda Doolittle). Funded by Bryhers inheritance from a vast family fortune, their projects were fueled by the principals interest…
Source: National Poetry Month: Monkey’s Moon » Abandon All Despair Ye Who Enter Here
See Tamara Beauchamp’s Web site for English 102D Topics in Twentieth
Century Literature: Modernist Subjectivity for examples of teaching H.D.’s Tribute to Freud.
Pages:
H.D. Reads Aloud | Modernist Subjectivities
Lecture Notes: H.D.’s life, relationship to Freud, and Writing on the Wall
Lecture Notes 2: Borderline, H.D., and Kenneth Macpherson
4-Generation Pedigree Family Tree from Wikitree
Based on an undergraduate research project with Kristian Wilson from the University of South Carolina Upstate (’15), the Silverstein Chronology, and an H.D. family tree already started at http://wikitree.com, a very nice genealogical background is available, and more will be added in the coming months. The snapshot below gives a quick taste of the site. To explore the whole family so far, click here.
In Sept. 2014, The Paris Review posted a birthday wish to H.D. which includes the full video of Borderline. Thank you, Paris Review!
