End to Torment (Masterplots II: Nonfiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Hilda Doolittle
- First Published: 1979
- Type of Work: Memoir
- Time of Work: 1901-1958
- Setting: The United States and Europe
- Principal Characters: H. D., Ezra Pound, Erich Heydt, Richard Aldington, Norman (Holmes) Pearson, Undine, Sheri Martinelli, Bryher, Joan, Joan Waluga
- Genres: Nonfiction, Memoir
- Subjects: Memory, Mythology or myths, Love or romance, Poetry or poets, Mental illness, Creative process, Biography
Form and Content
In March, 1958, H. D. (Hilda Doolittle) was in Kusnacht, Switzerland, recovering from an injury that she had suffered as the result of a fall. Her doctor, Erich Heydt, a psychoanalyst, encouraged her to keep a journal in which she recorded and explored her feelings for Ezra Pound. She was seventy-two years old when she began the journal; she had first met Pound in 1901 in Philadelphia and later had fallen in love with him and had become engaged to him. Fifty-seven years later, on March 7, when she began the journal, Ezra Pound was in his twelfth year of...
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