The co-op bookstore for avid readers
Book Cover for: Helen in Egypt: Poetry, Hilda Doolittle

Helen in Egypt: Poetry

Hilda Doolittle

A fifty-line fragment by the poet Stesichorus of Sicily (c. 640-555 B.C.), what survives of his Pallinode, tells us almost all we know of this other Helen, and from it H. D. wove her book-length poem.

Book Details

  • Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
  • Publish Date: Jan 17th, 1974
  • Pages: 304
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 7.99in - 5.25in - 0.85in - 0.75lb
  • EAN: 9780811205443
  • Categories: American - General

About the Author

Doolittle, Hilda: - A feminist icon as well as a major twentieth-century poet, H. D. (the pen name of Hilda Doolittle, 1886-1961) wrote several volumes of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction and was an exquisite translator of classical Greek drama.