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H.D.

Born

in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, The United States

September 10, 1886

Died

September 21, 1961

Website

http://www.imagists.org/hd/

Genre

Poetry

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An innovative modernist American writer, Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961) wrote under her initials in a career that stretched from 1909 to 1961. H.D., most well known for her lyric and epic poetry, also wrote novels, memoirs, short stories, essays, reviews, a children’s book, and translations. An American woman who lived her adult life abroad, H.D. was engaged in the formalist experimentation that preoccupied much of her generation. A range of thematic concerns resonates through her writing: the role of the poet, the civilian representation of war, material and mythologized ancient cultures, the role of national and colonial identity, lesbian and queer sexuality, and religion and spirituality.

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Average rating: 4.05 · 8,246 ratings · 631 reviews · 108 distinct works • Similar authors

	Collected Poems, 1912-1944 by H.D., Louis L. Martz (Editor) 4.16 avg rating — 1,947 ratings — published 1944 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Trilogy: The Walls Do Not Fall / Tribute to the Angels / The Flowering of the Rod by H.D., Aliki Barnstone (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.21 avg rating — 1,369 ratings — published 1973 — 24 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Helen in Egypt 4.10 avg rating — 654 ratings — published 1924 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	HERmione 3.88 avg rating — 521 ratings — published 1981 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sea Garden by H.D., Hilda Doolittle 4.13 avg rating — 480 ratings — published 1916 — 57 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Selected Poems of H.D. 4.03 avg rating — 462 ratings — published 1957 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tribute to Freud: Writing on the Wall and Advent by H.D., Norman Holmes Pearson (Foreword by) 3.84 avg rating — 292 ratings — published 1956 — 33 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Notes on Thought and Vision by H.D., Paul Bowles (Translator) 4.06 avg rating — 219 ratings — published 1982 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hermetic Definition by H.D., Hilda Doolittle 4.11 avg rating — 208 ratings — published 1972 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	End to Torment: A Memoir of Ezra Pound by H. D. by H.D., Michael King (Editor), Norman Holmes Pearson (Editor) 3.92 avg rating — 151 ratings — published 1979 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“...if you do not even understand what words say,
how can you expect to pass judgement
on what words conceal?”
― H.D. (Hilda Doolittle), Trilogy: The Walls Do Not Fall / Tribute to the Angels / The Flowering of the Rod

tags: conceal, doolittle, h-d, hilda, modernism, poetry, poets, words

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“Words were her plague and words were her redemption.”
― Hilda Doolittle, HERmione

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“Writing. Love is writing.”
― Hilda Doolittle, HERmione

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