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.

Print references

• Blau Duplessis, Rachel. H.D. The Career of that Struggle. (The Harvester Press, 1986). ISBN 0-7108-0548-9
• Chisholm, Dianne. H.D.'s Freudian Poetics: Psychoanalysis in Translation. (Cornell University Press, 1992).
• Guest, Barbara. Herself Defined: The Poet H.D. and Her World. (Collins, 1985) ISBN 0385131291
• Jones, Peter (ed.). Imagist Poetry (Penguin, 1972).