H.D. and Ancient Poetics

In recent decades, Heliodora has received greater attention since it contains H.D.'s translation and poetic expansion of four Sapphic fragments. Along with her investigation of the Sapphic and lyric poems, H.D. is gradually creating her own archive, the unpublished Notes on Euripides, Pausanias and Greek Lyric Poets. H.D. has produced a range of poems, translation exercises from the Greek Anthology and poems that work palimpsestically within the context of the Trojan War as with "After Troy," "Cassandra," "Thetis," and "Helen." In her comparison between Hymen and Heliodora, Cassandra Laity establishes a generic parallelism between the Swinburnian "deployment of deviant personae in his various forms of the self", since H.D. evolves her dramatic monologue technique in these two volumes, while concurrently with the publication of the two poetry collections.