"Superb. Vetter's incisive introduction offers one of the first
approaches to theorizing women's late modernist literary production
as advancing specifically hybrid works located at the juncture of
personal, national, and nationalist concerns."--Cynthia Hogue,
coeditor of "The Sword Went Out to Sea" "This edition, with its
finely written introduction and meticulous annotation, opens up new
understandings of H.D., the major modernist writer, as she
meditates, postwar, on the inner life of Shakespeare, the icon of
English literature, and on the women missing from his plays. A
beautiful and thoughtful book."--Jane Augustine, editor of "The
Gift "and "The Mystery" H.D. called "By Avon River ""the first book
that really made me happy." In this annotated edition, Lara Vetter
argues that the volume represented a turning point in H.D.'s
career, a major shift from lyric poetry to the experimental forms
of writing that would dominate her later works.
Near the end of World War II, after having remained in London
throughout the Blitz, H.D. made a pilgrimage to
Stratford-upon-Avon, Shakespeare's birthplace. This experience
resulted in""a hybrid volume of poetry about "The Tempest "and
prose about Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Featuring a
tour-de-force introduction and extensive explanatory notes, this is
the first edition of the work to appear since its original
publication in 1949.
Increasingly after the war, H.D. sought new forms of writing to
express her persistent interests in the politics of gender and in
issues of nationhood and home. "By Avon River" was one of her only
postwar works to cross over to mainstream audiences, and, as such,
is a welcome addition to our understanding of this significant
modernist writer.
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