Tagged: H.D.

December 23, 2019

Further discussion of “the American Beauty Rose” in week 3 discussions

A ModPo’er who is not familiar with the U.S. asks about our emphasis on “the American Beauty Rose” in our discussions (during week 3) of imagism’s rebuke of the clichéd rose. Here is a...

imagists / new videos / week 3

October 1, 2019

imagists influenced by Japanese poetry (and also: Japanese poets were influenced by imagists putting their tradition to use in modernist modes)

Nishiwiki’s poem “Rain” is directly influenced by H.D.’s “Oread.” Here is a discussion with Andrew Houwen about the connection. Generally speaking, thanks for a few contemporary scholars working on the relationship, we find that...