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Helen in Egypt - Poetry

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The fabulous beauty of Helen of Troy is legendary. But some say that Helen was never in Troy, that she had been conveyed by Zeus to Egypt, and that Greeks and Trojans alike fought for an illusion. A fifty-line fragment by the poet Stesichorus of Sicily (c. 640-555 B.C.), what survives of his Pallinode, tells us almost all we know of this other Helen, and from it H. D. wove her book-length poem. Yet Helen in Egypt is not a simple retelling of the Egyptian legend but a recreation of the many myths surrounding Helen, Paris, Achilles, Theseus, and other figures of Greek tradition, fused with the mysteries of Egyptian hermeticism.Biographical NoteA feminist icon as well as a major twentieth-century poet, H. D. (the pen name of Hilda Doolittle, 1886–1961) wrote several volumes of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction and was an exquisite translator of classical Greek drama.

Specifications

ISBN-13
9780811222587
Author
Hilda Doolittle
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
1974-02-01
Binding
paperback
Condition
new
Pages
304
Language
english
Country of Origin
United States
Weight (g)
289
Height (mm)
23
Length (mm)
203
Width (mm)
135
ISBN-10
0811205444

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