Finding Lost Voices: "Nossis" by H.D. and How H.D. is Talking Back to Ezra Pound and Richard Aldington
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As a bonus this week, I’m sending you H.D.’s poem, “Nossis” from her collection, Heliodora and Other Poems (1924). As I mentioned in my last post, H.D. encountered Nossis’ poetry via The Greek Anthology. She, along with Ezra Pound and Richard Arlington, met in London to translate Ancient Greek Texts (they called themselves the Eiffel Tower group) in the British Museum tea room. There, they translated Ancient Greek texts and created what we would later call the Imagist movement. What H.D. noticed was how differently Ezra Pound and Richard Aldington translated the work of ancient female poets like Sappho.
