{"product_id":"by-avon-river-paperback","title":"By Avon River - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eH. D\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eLara Vetter\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Superb. Vetter's incisive introduction offers one of the first approaches to theorizing women's late modernist literary production as advancing specifically hybrid works located at the juncture of personal, national, and nationalist concerns.\"--Cynthia Hogue, coeditor of \u003ci\u003eThe Sword Went Out to Sea\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"This edition, with its finely written introduction and meticulous annotation, opens up new understandings of H.D., the major modernist writer, as she meditates, postwar, on the inner life of Shakespeare, the icon of English literature, and on the women missing from his plays. A beautiful and thoughtful book.\"--Jane Augustine, editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Gift \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Mystery\u003c\/i\u003e H.D. called \u003ci\u003eBy Avon River \u003c\/i\u003e\"the first book that really made me happy.\" In this annotated edition, Lara Vetter argues that the volume represented a turning point in H.D.'s career, a major shift from lyric poetry to the experimental forms of writing that would dominate her later works. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNear the end of World War II, after having remained in London throughout the Blitz, H.D. made a pilgrimage to Stratford-upon-Avon, Shakespeare's birthplace. This experience resulted in\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ea hybrid volume of poetry about \u003ci\u003eThe Tempest \u003c\/i\u003eand prose about Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Featuring a tour-de-force introduction and extensive explanatory notes, this is the first edition of the work to appear since its original publication in 1949. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIncreasingly after the war, H.D. sought new forms of writing to express her persistent interests in the politics of gender and in issues of nationhood and home. \u003ci\u003eBy Avon River\u003c\/i\u003e was one of her only postwar works to cross over to mainstream audiences, and, as such, is a welcome addition to our understanding of this significant modernist writer.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eH.D. \u003c\/b\u003e(born Hilda Doolittle, 1886-1961) was an American expatriate writer whose work exerted enormous influence on modernist poetry and prose. \u003cb\u003eLara Vetter \u003c\/b\u003eis associate professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and author of \u003ci\u003eModernist Writings and Religio-scientific Discourse: H.D., Loy, and Toomer\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 192\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.45 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 10, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51751350599968,"sku":"9780813062372","price":37.19,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/d6f6c325ccaf4476b748fcbe7d840a10.webp?v=1779971477","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/by-avon-river-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}