Also by H. D.
Collected Poems, 1912–1944
End to Torment: A Memoir of Ezra Pound
The Gift
The Hedgehog
Helen in Egypt
Hermetic Definition
HERmione
Kora and Ka
Nights
Selected Poems
Tribute to Freud
Copyright © 1998 by Aliki Barnstone
Tribute to the Angels, Copyright 1945 by Oxford University Press;
Copyright renewed 1973 by Norman Holmes Pearson.
The Walls Do Not Fall, Copyright 1944 by Oxford University Press;
Copyright renewed 1972 by Norman Holmes Pearson.
The Flowering of the Rod, Copyright 1946 by Oxford University Press;
Copyright renewed 1974 by Norman Holmes Pearson.
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Some of the poems included in this collection also appeared in Selected Poems, published by Grove Press Inc., New York, 1957.
First published clothbound and as New Directions Paperbook 362 in 1973.
Reissued in 1998 as New Directions Paperbook 866.
Published simultaneously in Canada by Penguin Books Canada Limited.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
H. D. (Hilda Doolittle), 1886–1961
Trilogy / by H. D.; Introduction and notes by Aliki Barnstone.
p. cm.
Contents: The walls do not fall—Tribute to the angels—The flowering of the rod.
eISBN 978-0-8112-2266-2
I. Barnstone, Aliki. II. Title
PS3507.0726T74 1998 98-22882
811’.52—dc21 CIP
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