The Poetry of H. D. (Identities and Issues in Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Hilda Doolittle
- First Published: 1916
- Genres: Poetry
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Mythology or myths, Sex or sexuality, Twentieth century, Authors or writers, Literature, Poetry or poets, Dreams, Feminism, Women, Greek or Roman times, Psychoanalysis or psychoanalysts
The Work
The first poems published by Hilda Doolittle—whose pen name was H. D.—were what she and her contemporaries called Imagist. Imagist poems emphasize one powerful image, natural rhythm, and a careful economy of words. Imagism dominates the poems of her first book, Sea Garden, and traces of it continue throughout her work. The titles of her next major volumes—Hymen and Heliodora and Other Poems—reveal her lifelong interest in Greek literature and in particular female figures from mythology, with whom she often identified herself.
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