Doolittle, Hilda
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...
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