Selected Poems of Hilda Doolittle

  This selection of poems is based on the following works by H.D.: Collected Poems 1912-1944 (1983); Helen in Egypt (1961); and Hermetic Definition (1972).

  Grateful acknowledgment is given to New Directions Publishing Corp. for permission to quote from “Canto 83” of The Cantos of Ezra Pound (Copyright 1948 by Ezra Pound).

  First published clothbound and as New Directions Paperbook 658 in 1988

  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  H. D. (Hilda Doolittle), 1886-196 1.

  Selected poems.

  (A New Directions Book)

  I. Martz, Louis Lohr. II. Title.

  PS3507.0726A6 1988 811’.52 88-1460

  ISBN 978-0-811-21065-2

  ISBN 978-0-811-21066-9 pbk.

  ISBN 978-0-811-22369-0 (e-book)

  New Directions Books are published for James Laughlin

  by New Directions Publishing Corporation,

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