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In this complete, unabridged edition of H.D.'s visionary memoir, The Gift, Jane Augustine makes available for the first time the text as H.D. wrote it and intended it to be read, including H.D.'s coda to the book, her "Notes," never before published in its entirety.
Written in London during the blitz of World War II, The Gift re-creates the peaceful childhood of Hilda Doolittle in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, where she was born in 1886. As an antidote to war's destructiveness, H.D. invokes the mystical Moravian heritage of her mother's family to convey an ideal world peace and salvation that would come through the spiritual power of women - a power that also endowed her with "the gift" of her own art.
The Gift is key to intertextual studies of H.D.'s wartime oeuvre and to an understanding of the religious and gender concerns pervading her later work, especially the women-centered poems Trilogy and Helen in Egypt. Augustine's introduction and annotations, based on extensive research in Moravian archives, provide a biographical and historical context to make this the definitive edition of The Gift, essential to students and scholars of H.D., modernism, and feminist literature.
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20th century, American Poets, Biography, Childhood and youth, Creative ability, Moravians, Peace, Poets, American, Social life and customs, Biography: historical, Other prose: from c 1900 -, Social history, H. D. (Hilda Doolittle), 1886-1961, Women Authors, Literature - Classics / Criticism, English, Poetry, Women's Studies - General, USA, Feminist, 1886-1961, Pennsylvania, American - General, (Hilda Doolittle),, Bethlehem, H. D, Bethlehem (pa.), Fiction, general, American Women poetsPeople
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