Copyright © 1961 by Norman Holmes Pearson

Introduction copyright © 1961 by Horace Gregory

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First published by Grove Press in 1961

Published clothbound and as New Directions Paperbook 380 in 1974

Published simultaneously in Canada by Penguin Books Canada Limited

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

Doolittle, Hilda, 1886–1961.

Helen in Egypt.

(A New Directions Book)

Poem.

1. Helen of Troy—Poetry. I. H. D. II. D., H.
III. Title.

PS3507.O726H37 1974 811’.5’2 74–8563

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