Sword Went Out to Sea

H.D. (Hilda Doolittle, 1886-1961), wrote many of her novels under the pseudonym Delia Alton. Cynthia Hogue is Maxine and Jonathan Marshall Chair in Modern and Contemporary Poetry at Arizona State University. Julie Vandivere is the director of gender and women's studies and associate professor of English at Bloomsburg University.

Readers of this book will want to take advantage of the editors' detailed summaries of the novel's characters--including 'keys' to surrogate/conflated characters (such as H.D.'s use of her sometime nom de plume, Delia Alton, as both author and protagonist of this novel) and H.D.'s use of dream and symbolism. Valuable for modernists; required reading for H.D. scholars."--Choice"Engages many important critical questions: the place of the occult in modernism, women writers' response to war, the historical and biographical contexts of H.D.' s late writing. The editors give a forceful presentation of the novel’s significance."--Eileen Gregory, University of Dallas"A haunting novel of spiritual duress and survival, it remains eerily relevant today."--Donna Hollenberg, University of Connecticut