H. D. & Bryher: An Untold Love Story of Modernism

H. D. & Bryher: An Untold Love Story of Modernism
ISBN-10
0190621249
ISBN-13
9780190621247
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
384
Language
English
Published
2021-10-15
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Author
Susan McCabe

Description

H.D. & Bryher: An Untold Love Story of Modernism takes on the daring task of examining the connection between two queer women, one a poet and the other a historical novelist, living from the late 19th century through the 20th century. When they met in 1918, H.D. was a modernist poet, married to a shell-shocked adulterous poet, and pregnant by another man. She fell in love with Bryher, who was entrapped by her wealthy secretive family. Their bond grew over Greek poetry, geography, ancient history and literature, the telegraph, and telepathy. They felt their love-and their true identities existed invisibly- a giddy, and disturbing element to their relationship; they lived off and on in distant geographies, though in near continual contact. This book exposes why literary history has occluded this love story of the world wars and poetic modernism.

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