“In her excellent biography of H.D.—the first in nearly forty years—Hollenberg offers scholars a much-needed narrative of H.D.’s life that is deliberate, judicious, and comprehensive. Drawing upon existing accounts and fresh archival research, she treats well-examined and less familiar episodes with clarity and new detail, giving rich contexts for H.D.’s writing. She gives thoughtful accounts of H.D.’s relationships, showing how they altered and yet persisted, threaded within her memory and writing. Importantly, H.D.’s distinctive personality emerges clearly from these pages. This is an admirable achievement of research and synthesis.”
—Eileen Gregory, University of Dallas
— Eileen Gregory, University of Dallas
“Respected biographer and esteemed feminist scholar of modernist and postmodernist American poetry, Donna Hollenberg has written a biography of H.D. that will help scholars, critics, and readers of poetry to understand this great poet’s life as a woman of letters in her time. Hollenberg quietly corrects the inaccuracies in earlier biographies, fills in significant gaps in our knowledge of H.D.’s life, and is judicious in her presentation and representation of H.D. This biography will define this major woman poet for a generation.”
—Cynthia Hogue, Arizona State University
— Cynthia Hogue, Arizona State University
“Hollenberg gathers together in one place a fine-grained prose timeline presenting the facts about where H.D. was, who she was with, what she was reading, and what was going on during every period of her remarkable life. This is an invaluable resource to scholarship as a rich source of facts and insights into H.D. and her work.”
—Matte Robinson, St. Thomas University
— Matte Robinson, St. Thomas University
“Respected biographer and esteemed feminist scholar of modernist and postmodernist American poetry, Donna Hollenberg has written a biography of H.D. that will help scholars, critics, and readers of poetry to understand this great poet’s life as a woman of letters in her time. Hollenberg quietly corrects the inaccuracies in earlier biographies, fills in significant gaps in our knowledge of H.D.’s life, and is judicious in her presentation and representation of H.D. This biography will define this major woman poet for a generation.”
—Cynthia Hogue, Arizona State University
— Cynthia Hogue, Arizona State University
“In her excellent biography of H.D.—the first in nearly forty years—Hollenberg offers scholars a much-needed narrative of H.D.’s life that is deliberate, judicious, and comprehensive. Drawing upon existing accounts and fresh archival research, she treats well-examined and less familiar episodes with clarity and new detail, giving rich contexts for H.D.’s writing. She gives thoughtful accounts of H.D.’s relationships, showing how they altered and yet persisted, threaded within her memory and writing. Importantly, H.D.’s distinctive personality emerges clearly from these pages. This is an admirable achievement of research and synthesis.”
—Eileen Gregory, University of Dallas
— Eileen Gregory, University of Dallas
“Hollenberg gathers together in one place a fine-grained prose timeline presenting the facts about where H.D. was, who she was with, what she was reading, and what was going on during every period of her remarkable life. This is an invaluable resource to scholarship as a rich source of facts and insights into H.D. and her work.”
—Matte Robinson, St. Thomas University
— Matte Robinson, St. Thomas University