Hilda doolittle

H.D., Hilda Doolittle - Poet, novelist, and memoirist

H. D. (Hilda Doolittle), 1886-1961; 1887-1929

Page/Caption: [Various clippings and photographs, possibly H.D.?] Author/Creator: H. D. (Hilda Doolittle), 1886-1961 Date: undated Part of: H. D. Papers, 1887-1977 Physical Description: 1 volume, leather bound 25 x 35 cm. 26 x 36 cm. Folder or box number: Folder 1430 Subjects: Bryher, 1894- MacPherson, Kenneth Art, Classical Architecture, Classical Classical antiquities Modernism (Literature) Poetry, Modern --20th century Poets, American --20th century Women Genre/Form: Photographs…

The relationship of the American expatriate writer and poet Hilda Doolittle, aka H.D. and Bryher (Annie Winifred Ellerman).

tendons, muscles shattered, outer husk dismembered, yet the frame held: we passed the flame: we wonder what saved us? what for?

The fabulous beauty of Helen of Troy is legendary. But some say that Helen was never in Troy, that she had been conveyed by Zeus to Egypt, and that Greeks and Trojans alike fought for an illusion. A fifty-line fragment by the poet Stesichorus of Sicily (c. 640-555 B.C.), what survives of his Pallinode, tells us almost all we know of this other Helen, and from it H. D. wove her book-length poem.

Hilda Doolittle (1886 –1961) was an American modernist poet, novelist, and memoirist who wrote under the name H.D. throughout her life. After her marriage ended, H.D. met the novelist Bryher, the woman she would live with for the next three decades.

Pictured left to right, in front of Yale Library in honor of her 70th birthday, is Hilda Doolittle (a.k.a. H.D.), Norman H. Pearson, associate professor of English at Yale, and British author Mrs. Bryher. The photograph was published in the New Haven Register, September 16, 1956 without identifying the photographer.

there are many ways to be free. one of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do....