Trilogy
H.D.'s wartime masterwork, written in London during the Blitz, weaves Egyptian mythology, Christian mysticism, and feminist vision into a poem of survival and renewal. Long overshadowed by Pound (who named her "H.D., Imagiste") and by her gender, the Trilogy is now recognized as one of the great sustained poems of the century: a woman writing a new mythology in the rubble of Western civilization.
H.D. answers the Blitz with etymology: Osiris dissolves into Sirius, Mary into myrrh, and the word-spinning can float free of the rubble that occasioned it. The syncretism (Egyptian, Greek, Christian, alchemical) assumes a reader steeped in all four, and the final part's visionary serenity feels willed rather than won. Bombs fall in the first poem; doctrine accumulates afterward.
The case for it and the rest of the canon open with Pro.
