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Doolittle, Hilda

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Doolittle, Hilda (1886–1961),known by her initials, was born in Pennsylvania, went to Europe in 1911, married English author Richard Aldington in 1913, and lived in England thereafter. An early member of the school of Imagism, she is frequently considered the outstanding poet consistently practicing its principles. Sea Garden (1916), her first collection, shows the classically chiseled, objective method for which she became famous, and Hymen (1921) indicates her interest in the Hellenic tradition. Her later volumes, Heliodora and Other Poems (1924) and Hippolytus Temporizes (1927), a drama in classic form, foreshadowed her translation of the Ion of Euripides (1937). Editions of her Collected Poems appeared in 1925 and 1940, but later verse includes the trilogy, The Walls Do Not Fall (1944), Tribute to Angels (1945), and Flowering of the Rod (1946), while By Avon River (1949) contains both poetry and prose about Shakespeare and Elizabethan literature, and Helen in Egypt (1961) is a posthumously issued long poem. Her prose fiction is published in Palimpsest (1926), Hedylus (1928), The Hedgehog (1936), and Bid Me to Live (1960), the last being a stream‐of‐consciousness novel of Bloomsbury life in 1917, an obvious roman à clef. Tribute to Freud (1956) is a prose work on the psychoanalyst, whose patient she was. Other late works include End to Torment (1958), a memoir of Pound. Hermetic Definition (1972), a personal statement cast in philosophic terms, and HERmione (1981), an autobiographical novel about a young woman torn between love for a man (obviously based on Pound) and for a woman, are posthumously issued works.

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