Silliman writes today: "Jonathan Mayhew the other day in his blog characterized H.D.’s Hellenism as “kitsch” – yet its function during her lifetime was diametrically opposed to that very idea." How true! How do we deal with her astrology and mythopoesis? Albert Gelpi, with whom I studied H.D my first semester of grad school, was heavily into all the theosophy, astrology, numerology, etc... in Pound, H.D. He took it seriously in a way I could not fathom. I wasn't about to reject Mormonism in order to go in for astrology.

"about the historical Arthur
about the passing of Arthur

the wild sea (his lair) War
the throwing away of Excalibur

Through secret parables through
books of dark necessity

along a line of legend winters old..."

These lines from Susan Howe would not have been written without H.D.