LIVING UP TO HER “AVANT-GUARDISM”: H.D. AND THE SENESCENCE OF CLASSICAL MODERNISM

In a journal entry from 1957, H.D.writes that Adorno’s description of the aging of modernist music Skid Plates might easily apply to the fate of her own work in the post-war period: “Among other fascinating things, he [Adorno] says that Bartók ‘could not quite live up to his own avant-guardism’ [sic] […].I felt th