By all accounts she was bisexual and practiced what we'd probably call polyamory today, but even her biographers like to brush over this, or repaint it according to their own standards.
Bah. I didn't realize this about Millay scholarship, although I'm not actually surprised. Thanks for the heads-up.
H.D. is one of my favorite poets of the twentieth or any other century and Pearson's elisions are absolutely consistent with most of the literature on her work and life until very, very recently, but I think it's getting less possible for me to gloss past them when we run into each other. (I've kind of been ranting about it for years on the internet. Comments to the review I linked contain my disappointment with even the BFI for their writeup of Borderline (1930), which foregrounds Kenneth Macpherson both artistically and emotionally—although without acknowledging that his primary sexual partners were men—and relegates H.D. and Bryher's forty-three-year, unbreakable, non-monogamous relationship to the status of an unconfirmable rumor. They haven't changed it since, either.) Possibly I should just find some recent scholarship, but I don't have any leads. I suspect I'm tending toward tracking down H.D.'s own letters.
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Bah. I didn't realize this about Millay scholarship, although I'm not actually surprised. Thanks for the heads-up.
H.D. is one of my favorite poets of the twentieth or any other century and Pearson's elisions are absolutely consistent with most of the literature on her work and life until very, very recently, but I think it's getting less possible for me to gloss past them when we run into each other. (I've kind of been ranting about it for years on the internet. Comments to the review I linked contain my disappointment with even the BFI for their writeup of Borderline (1930), which foregrounds Kenneth Macpherson both artistically and emotionally—although without acknowledging that his primary sexual partners were men—and relegates H.D. and Bryher's forty-three-year, unbreakable, non-monogamous relationship to the status of an unconfirmable rumor. They haven't changed it since, either.) Possibly I should just find some recent scholarship, but I don't have any leads. I suspect I'm tending toward tracking down H.D.'s own letters.