Modernist poet H.D. had many visionary and paranormal experiences throughout her life. Although Sigmund Freud worried that they might be 'symptoms,' she rebelled, educating herself in the alternative world of the occult and spiritualism in order to transform the raw material into a mythical autobiography woven throughout her poetry, prose, and life-writing. The Astral H.D. narrates the fascinating story of how she used the occult to transform herself, and provides surprising revelations about her friendships and conflicts with famous figures-such as Sigmund Freud and the Battle of Britain War Hero Hugh Dowding-along the way.

A collection of nine critical essays on the American poet and novelist, arranged in chronological order of their original publication.

Literary Nonfiction. Poetics. Biography. Literary History & Criticism. Contributors include Perdita Schaffner, Mary de Rachewiltz, Silvia Dobson, May Sarton, John Walsh, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Susan Stanford Friedman, Alicia Ostriker, John Peck, Sandra M. Gilbert, Barbara Guest, Dale Davis, Mary K. DeShazer, Albert Gelpi, Deborah Kelly Kloepfer, L. S. Dembo, Adalaide Morris, Janice S. Robinson, Jeanne Kerblat-Houghton, Joseph Milicia, Charlotte Mandel, Diane Collecott, Anne Friedberg, Mary S. Mathis, and Michael King.

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"Set during the World War II air raids in London, H.D.'s fascinating and visionary novel... documents her spiritualist activities during this time. Never before published, the work offers a hybrid pastiche of autobiographical, fictional, and epistolary modes of writing....This annotated edition presents important information about H.D.'s personal history, her heterodox interest, and her notions about the creative process itself. It also includes much on the source material for Trilogy, her well-known three-part poem on the experience of the Blitz"--From publisher description.