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Sea Garden (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)

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The poet Hilda Doolittle, born into a Moravian family in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, was living in England when her first book, Sea Garden, was published. Restless by nature, she had left Bryn Mawr College after one year as a student and proceeded to educate herself in classical literature. Her former fiancé, the poet Ezra Pound, had helped initiate her attraction to the Greeks, and she soon followed him to London, where he was making a name for himself in bohemian and literary circles. It was Pound who, reading Doolittle’s first poems in a London...

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