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Hilda Doolittle

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Hilda Doolittle pseud. H. D., 1886-1961, American poet, b. Bethlehem, Pa., educated at Bryn Mawr. After 1911 she lived abroad, marrying Richard Aldington in 1913. In England, under the influence of Ezra Pound, she became associated with the imagists and developed into one of the most original poets of the group. Volumes of her verse include Sea Garden (1916), Red Shoes for Bronze (1931), The Walls Do Not Fall (1944), and Bid Me to Live (1960). Bibliography: See her collected poems, ed. by L. Martz (1983); S. S. Friedman, ed., Analyzing Freud: Letters of H. D., Bryher,... Read more
Hilda Doolittle
Encyclopedia of World Biography Hilda Doolittle The American poet, translator, and novelist Hilda Doolittle (1886-1961), generally called H. D...through sharp images and "free" forms. Hilda Doolittle was born on Sept. 10, 1886, in Bethlehem... Read more
Hilda Doolittle
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia ...remained erudite and symbolic. Her collections include Sea Garden (1916), Hymen (1921), and Red Roses for Bronze (1929). She was also acclaimed for her translations, verse drama, and prose works. Hilda Doolittle Hilda Doolittle Hilda Doolittle Read more

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The muse's dance: H.D.'s 'The Dancer' as spiritual metaphor. (poem by Hilda Doolittle)
Magazine article from: Women and Language; 3/22/1993; ; 700+ words ; ...Plaskow and driven by my own intellectual curiosity, I integrated my personal quest with my academic studies. That was when I met Hilda Dollittle, the American poet and novelist known to readers as H.D. As I read Trilogy, H.D.'s three-volume tribute to spiritual... Read more
H.D. and "The Contest": archaeology of a Sapphic gaze.(poet Hilda Doolittle's work; Greek poet Sappho)
Magazine article from: Twentieth Century Literature; 6/22/1998; ; 700+ words ; What need - yet to sing love, love must first shatter us. - H.D., Fragment Forty (Collected Poems [CP] 175) Scholars have long documented the relationships between Sappho and her poetic successors.(1) More recently, a few critics have unearthed those between Sappho and H.D. Thirteen years ago, for Read more
H.D.: A Source in Heine.(Hilda Doolittle; Heinrich Heine)(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: ANQ; 3/22/2001; ; 700+ words ; H.D. stated in later life that among her earliest poems had been translations from Heine, made in 1910 (Dembo 437). The only published example of those translations is the single stanza included in Paint It Today, the autobiographical novel written by H.D. in 1921. The stanza is ascribed to the Read more
H.D. and Eurydice.(woman author Hilda Doolittle; mythologic character)
Magazine article from: Twentieth Century Literature; 12/22/1998; ; 700+ words ; . . . everything is at stake in the decision of the gaze. - Blanchot, The Gaze of Orpheus (104) In their uses of Orpheus, poets have dwelt on the figure of Orpheus while Eurydice remains an enigma, the shadowy instance that allows the transformation of a poet into Orpheus. It is the paradox of Read more
Seaward: H.D.'s 'Helen in Egypt' as a response to Pound's 'Cantos.'.(woman author Hilda Doolittle; long poems)
Magazine article from: Twentieth Century Literature; 12/22/1998; ; 700+ words ; Despite the firm nook in the modernist pantheon that H.D. has acquired over the past quarter century, she remains an oddly isolated figure within the larger matrix of poetic modernism. Recent scholarship has correctly shifted attention to her late long poems, but there has been little consideration Read more
"Sparse and geometric contour": transformations of the body in H.D.'s 'Nights'.(Hilda Doolittle)(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: Twentieth Century Literature; 9/22/2001; ; 700+ words ; I don't like the second half of the Orpheus sequence as well as the first. Stick to the woman speaking. How can you know what Orpheus feels? It's your part to be woman, the woman vibration, Eurydice should be enough. Rico to Julia in H.D.'s Bid Me to Live [51]. Near the end of H.D.'s little-known Read more
The poem that grew and grew until it became a novel
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 10/16/2005; ; 700+ words ; ...Ana Castillo sat down to revise a poem and created a monster. Several months before, she had read an epic poem by Hilda Doolittle, one of her favorite poets, and tucked away into her subconscious the thought that perhaps one day she too would... Read more
Where Folly Held a Fair.
Magazine article from: World and I; 12/1/1998; ; 700+ words ; ...of American poetry. Harriet Monroe's bold little magazines, Poetry, had just appeared, featuring such writers as Hilda Doolittle, Ezra Pound, and Amy Lowell. Robert Frost, newly arrived in England, was completing the poems that would comprise... Read more
Witches, wordsmiths join in on the heat.
Newspaper article from: WI State Journal (Madison, WI); 8/1/2006; 653 words ; ...no. Yet to be quoted are Miss Gulch, Sydney Smith, Hilda Doolittle, David Blaney and Quintin Nethercott. Miss Gulch...'s been the worst weather-wise, too, she added. Poet Hilda Doolittle (1886- 1961) could relate. In her poem, Garden, she... Read more
WITCHES, WORKERS AND WORDSMITHS THEY ALL HAVE SOMETHING TO SAY ABOUT THE HEAT.(FRONT)
Newspaper article from: Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI); 8/1/2006; 700+ words ; ...no. Yet to be quoted are Miss Gulch, Sydney Smith, Hilda Doolittle, David Blaney and Quintin Nethercott. Miss Gulch...'s been the worst weather-wise, too, she added. Poet Hilda Doolittle (1886-1961) could relate. In her poem, Garden, she... Read more

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