Volume 31, Number 5 · March 29, 1984
A Nymph of the New
By Alfred Kazin
Herself Defined: The Poet H.D. and Her World
by Barbara Guest
Doubleday, 360 pp., $18.95
This full and fascinating biography of the poet Hilda Doolittle—her early and bossy boyfriend, Ezra Pound, on his own turned her into 'H.D.'—reads as if the poet and her 'world' excite Barbara Guest more than the poetry itself does. (The poems are used to document passions, breakdowns, travel, and events that the poems rarely make public.)
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