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Tribute to Freud

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ISBN-10: 0811220044

ISBN-13: 9780811220040

Edition: 2nd 2012

Authors: Hilda Doolittle, Norman Holmes Pearson, Adam Philips

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My bat-like thought-wings would beat painfully in that sudden searchlight, H.D. writes in Tribute to Freud, her moving memoir. Compelled by historical as well as personal crises, H.D. underwent therapy with Freud during 1933–34, as the streets of Vienna were littered with tokens dropped like confetti on the city stating Hitler gives work, Hitler gives bread. Having endured World War I, she was now gathering her resources to face the cataclysm she knew was approaching. The first part of the book, Writing on the Wall, was composed some ten years after H.D.’s stay in Vienna; the second part, Advent, is a journal she kept during her analysis. Revealed here in the poet’s crystal shard-like words…    
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Book details

List price: $16.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Publication date: 6/12/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 144
Size: 5.20" wide x 8.00" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English

Hilda Doolittle was born in September 1886 in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. She is a poet and a novelist known as being a member of the poetry group avant-garde Imagists who believed in writing about what they chose. This later lead to her writings on modernism. She moved to London in 1911 where she met Ezra Pound who encouraged her writing. Her poetry was published in the English Review and the Transatlantic Review. Her work often borrowed images from classical Greek literature to evoke a particular feeling in the reader. In 1911 she sailed to Europe and met Richard Aldington - a poet whop would help her in her career and along with Pound the three poets became known as the "three original…