H.D.

Hilda Doolittle (September 10, 1886, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania – September 27, 1961, Zürich), prominently known only by her initials H.D., was an American poet, novelist and memoirist. She is best known for her association with the key early 20th-century avant-garde Imagist group of poets, although her later writing represents a move away from the Imagist model and towards a distinctly feminine version of modernist poetry and prose.

Bibliography

Poetry

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• Sea Garden (1916)
• The Tribute And Circe: Two Poems (1917)
• Hymen (1921)
• Heliodora and Other Poems (1924)
• Collected Poems of H.D. (1925, new edition 1940)
• Red Roses for Bronze (1931)
• Trilogy
• The Walls do not Fall (1944)
• Tribute to the Angels (1945)
• The Flowering of the Rod (1946)
• By Avon River (1949)
• Selected Poems of H.D. (1957)
• Helen in Egypt (1961)
• Hermetic Definition (1972)
• Trilogy (revised single-volume edition, 1973)
• Collected Poems, 1912–1944 (1983)

Novels

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• Palimpsest (1926)
• Hedylus (1928)
• HERmione (written 1927, published 1981)
• Nights (1935)
• Bid Me to Live (written 1933–1950, published 1960)
• Paint It Today (published 1992)
• Asphodel (published 1992)

For children

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• The Hedgehog (1936)

Memoirs

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• The Gift (written 1941–1944, published 1982)
• Tribute to Freud (written 1944, published gradually from 1945 to 1985)
• End to Torment (written 1958, published 1979)

Translations

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• Images, Old and New (with Richard Aldington, 1915)
• Choruses from the Iphigeneia in Aulis and the Hippolytus of Euripides (1919)
• Euripides' Ion (1937)

Play

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• Hippolytus Temporizes (1927)

Poetics

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• Notes on Thought and Vision (1919, published 1982)