"Augustine's edition of The Mystery is a model of editorial
excellence and an immense contribution to H.D. scholarship, crucial
to an understanding of the poet's creative processes and central
themes. Every reader of modernist literature will want to have this
edition at hand."--Donna Hollenberg, University of Connecticut In
The Mystery, finished in 1951 but never before published, H.D.
tells a tale of love, intrigue, and religious redemption. Drawn
from her notes to her memoir, The Gift, the novel imaginatively
re-creates the history of her mother's Moravian Church, Unitas
Fratrum, and its leader, Count Zinzendorf, from which she believed
she had inherited a psychic "gift." This "gift" enables her to
reenvision her inheritance. The Moravian cousins, Elizabeth de
Watteville and Henry Dohna, Zinzendorf's grandchildren, travel to
Prague in winter 1788, on the eve of the French Revolution. There
they meet Count Louis Saint-Germain, a magician and
counterrevolutionary plotter, whose life changes as he joins their
search to find Zinzendorf's lost Plan for "world unity without
war." A hybrid novel combining modernist stream-of-consciousness
and medieval legend, The Mystery completes H.D.'s cycle of romances
following The Sword Went Out to Sea and White Rose and the Red. It
reveals her feminist theology and writes finis to her obsession
with spiritualism. Jane Augustine's introduction and extensive
notes provide a significantly enlarged view of H.D.'s religious
thinking. H.D., well-known as an Imagist poet, has reemerged as a
major modernist writer through publication of her previously
unavailable prose. Jane Augustine, an independent scholar, has
written four books of poetry and numerous essays on women writers,
gender, and religion. She also edited The Gift by H.D.: The
Complete Text.
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