Bid Me to Live: A Madrigal — Hilda Doolittle

 

“Zilboorg's introduction and notes are excellent, thorough, and accurate -- the work of an unparalleled expert in the field. This edition makes a major contribution to H.D. and modernist studies.” -- Jane Augustine, editor of H.D.'s The Mystery

 

In the riveting and intense Bid Me to Live, H.D. documents her traumatic experiences during WWI on which she blamed a number of personal tragedies, including a stillborn child, the end of her marriage, and her pained relationship with D. H. Lawrence. This critical edition returns the novel to print for the first time in a generation.
            
Editor Caroline Zilboorg offers invaluable background information and perspectives that facilitate a rich and rewarding reading of a complex novel. Including an introduction that recounts the autobiographical narrative on which the book is based, a biographical key to all the major characters, explanations of textual references, and photographs of all the central figures in the text, this is a powerful resource for understanding and appreciating one of the Imagist author's most accessible novels.

 

H.D. (born Hilda Doolittle, 1886�"1961) is an American writer whose work exerted enormous influence on modernist poetry and prose.

 

Caroline Zilboorg is an independent scholar based in France. She is a life member of Clare Hall at Cambridge University and has published a number of books, including Richard Aldington and H.D.: Their Lives in Letters.