/lit/ - Literature

“You can't live on nothing." "I can live on sunlight falling across little bridges. I can live on the Botticelli-blue cornflower pattern on the out-billowing garments of the attendant to Aphrodite and the pattern of strawberry blossoms and the little daisies in the robe of Primavera. I can live on the doves flying (he says) in cohorts from the underside of the faded gilt of the balcony of Saint Mark's cathedral and the long corridors of the Pitti Palace. I can gorge myself on Rome and the naked Bacchus and the face like a blasted lightning-blasted white birch that is some sort of Fury.”

then he will never feel actual transcendence

When will she take her rightful place as Chief Modernist?

>>9637786
HD's stylistic unity is widely considered to be a failing or limitation and will undercut critical reception of her work. Her unparalleled aesthetics now ride on the coat-tails of contemporary feminist theory as opposed to being rightly seen as the highest of high-modernism, comparable only to Joyce and maybe Eliot.

>>9614972
>shitposters
>>9614963
Only Woman with comparable prose is pic-related. Fom HERmione:

I have tasted words, I have seen them. Never had her hands reached out in darkness and felt the texture of pure marble, never had her forehead bent forward and, as against a stone altar, felt safety. I am now saved. Her mind could not then so specifically have seen it, could not have said, "Now I will reveal myself in words, words may now supercede a scheme of mathematical-biological definition. Words may be my heritage and with words...A lady will be set back in the sky....there was hope in a block of unsubstantiated marble, words could carve and set up solid altars...Thought followed the wing that beat its silver into seven-branched larch boughs.

>>9578684

This is the Queen of Modernism, guys.

>hasn't read the pinnacle of modernism because she's overshadowed by the memery of Pound (who spent his life trying to catch-up to her early work)

>>9424411
because ONE luminous talent shined so brightly that Pound wanted to found his entire work around it (and call her part of his movement)
Vorticism was his attempt to hash out for himself and it was a failure.

>>9412061
You are talking about how he tried to stifle the genius of modernism right?

>>9331692
good coach, bad player

here's the all-star

>>9313790
Nope.
Hell the best modernist was a woman (just to remind you)

>>9262823
English Modernism is the height of art

>tfw writing about the Trojan war after her is useless
She ended literature

>>9181391

>>9139381
The severe and powerful poetry of HD > Proust & Joyce

best modernist coming through

>>9111485
yep. one.

>>9111477
it's one of the most beautiful things you can read. Better than the 3/4 of the four quartets

>>9102801
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

“She wanted George with some uncorrelated sector of Her Gart, she wanted George to correlate for her, life here, there. She wanted George to define and to make definable a mirage, a reflection of some lost incarnation, a wood maniac, a tree demon, a neuropathic dendrophile...She wanted George to make the thing an integral, herself integrity. She wanted George to make one of his drastic statements that would dynamite her world away for her. She wanted this, but even as she wanted it she let herself sink further, further, she saw that her two hands reached toward George like the hands of a drowned girl. She knew she was not drowned. Where others would drown-lost, suffocated in this element-she knew that she lived. She had no complete right yet to this element, hands struggled to be pulled out. White hands waved above the water like sea spume or inland-growing pond flowers...She wanted George to pull her out, she wanted George to push her in, let Her be drowned utterly.”

Do you have a favorite? I'm a fan of H.D.

>>8797430
she's a good one