Winged words: the life and work of the poet H.D

Prologue

Part One: Early Years and First Loves (1886-1913)

Chapter 1: Bethlehem Years, 1886-1895

Chapter 2: The Years in Upper Darby, PA, 1896-1909

Chapter 3: The Frances Gregg Period, 1910-1913

Part Two: Imagism, World War One, and Personal Loss, 1913-1918

Chapter 4: H.D., Imagism, the Onset of War and a Still Birth, 1913-1915

Chapter 5: Changing Partners in the "War Tornado," 1916-1918

Part Three: New Family and New Forms of Art, 1918-1931

Chapter 6: The "Mysteries of Vision" and the Healing Power of Art, 1918-1920

Chapter 7: Travels and a New Menage, 1920-1923

Chapter 8: More Prose, a New Lover, and an Introduction to Avant-Garde Film, 1924-1927

Chapter 9: More Film, Endings and Beginnings, 1928-1931

Part Four: Psychoanalysis and Renewal, 1932-1939

Chapter 10: Travels and Analysis with Freud, 1932-1934

Chapter 11: Gradual Regenerations and the Onset of War, 1935-1939

Part Five: London, World War Two and its Aftermath, 1939-1954

Chapter 12: World War Two and the War Trilogy, 1939-1945

Chapter 13: Breakdown, Switzerland, and Prose Fiction, 1946-1950

Chapter 14: Becoming a Grandmother and the Creation of Helen in Egypt, 1951-1954

Part Six: A New Love before Facing Death, 1955-1961

Chapter 15: Heydt, An Accident, Occult Research, and More Poetry, 1955-1958

Chapter 16: More Poetry, Recognition, and a Fatal Illness, 1959-1961

Epilogue

Notes

Bibliography

Index.