Set during the World War II air raids in London, H.D.'s fascinating and visionary novel Majic Ring documents her spiritualist activities during this time. Never before published, the work offers a hybrid pastiche of autobiographical, fictional, and epistolary modes of writing.
Majic Ring provides strong evidence of H.D.'s construction of a unique occult tradition at the heart of what emerged as visionary politics. This novel is also evidently a story that, according to her own accounts, she wrote and rewrote following her 1920 trip to Greece on the Borodino.
This annotated edition presents important information about H.D.'s personal history, her heterodox interests, and her notions about the creative process itself. It also includes much on the source material for Trilogy, her well-known three-part poem on the experience of the Blitz. In fact, the publication of this novel will change radically the way we read Trilogy and will alter profoundly the way we view modernism, the creative process, and women's literary production during the mid-twentieth century.
