Doolittle, Hilda
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Doolittle, Hilda (1886–1961), American poet, who wrote as ‘H.D.’, followed her friend
Pound to Europe, where both became leading members of the Imagist movement (see
Imagism). She married
Aldington in 1913, but the marriage was not a success. Her several volumes of poetry, from her first,
Sea Garden (1916), to her last, the quasi-epic
Helen in Egypt (1961), show a deep involvement with classical mythology, a sharp, spare use of natural imagery, and interesting experiments with
vers libre. She also published several novels, including
Bid Me to Live (1960), a
roman- à- clef about her
Bloomsbury years, and
Tribute to Freud (1965), an account of her analysis by
Freud in 1933.
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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
; ...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...
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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
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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
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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,
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"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
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'We have a secret. We are alive': H.D.'s 'Trilogy' as a response to war.(poet Hilda Doolittle)(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: Texas Studies in Literature and Language; 6/22/2002; ; 700+ words
; Trilogy is H.D.'s response to the trials of the Second World War, the "orgy of destructions to be witnessed and lived through in London." (2) It seems both helpful and unproblematic to begin with such a straightforward statement. After all, "The Walls Do Not Fall," "Tribute to the Angels," and
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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
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Women Intellectuals, Modernism, and Difference: Transatlantic Culture, 1919-1945.
Magazine article from: Yearbook of English Studies; 1/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...Leona Carrington, Ella Deloria, Hilda Doolittle, Zora Neale Hurston, and Frida...to her aims, perhaps, in that Doolittle was a genuine figure of 'transatlantic...pardigm Gambrell highlights here, Doolittle can be seen to have helped expand...
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Witches, wordsmiths join in on the heat.
Newspaper article from: WI State Journal (Madison, WI); 8/1/2006; 700+ words
; ...Yet to be quoted are Miss Gulch, Sydney Smith, Hilda Doolittle, David Blaney and Quintin Nethercott. Miss Gulch...the worst weather-wise, too," she added. Poet Hilda Doolittle (1886- 1961) could relate. In her poem, "Garden...
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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
; ...Yet to be quoted are Miss Gulch, Sydney Smith, Hilda Doolittle, David Blaney and Quintin Nethercott. Miss Gulch...the worst weather-wise, too," she added. Poet Hilda Doolittle (1886-1961) could relate. In her poem, "Garden...
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Hilda Doolittle
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Hilda Doolittle The American poet, translator, and novelist Hilda Doolittle (1886-1961), generally called...through sharp images and "free" forms. Hilda Doolittle was born on Sept. 10, 1886, in Bethlehem...
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Doolittle-Aldington, Hilda (H.D.), (1886-1961)
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis
DOOLITTLE-ALDINGTON, HILDA (H.D.), (1886-1961) The American poet Hilda Doolittle was born on September 10, 1886, in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and...
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Doolittle, Hilda
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Doolittle, Hilda (1886–1961), American poet, who wrote as ‘H.D.’, followed her friend Pound to Europe...
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The 1960s: The Arts: Deaths
Book article from: American Decades
...December 1963. Walt Disney, 65, animator, film producer, and theme-park impresario, 15 December 1966. H. D. (Hilda Doolittle), 75, poet, 27 September 1961. W. E. B. DuBois, 95, founder of the National Association for the Advancement...
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William Carlos Williams
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...University of Pennsylvania. He received his medical degree in 1906 from Pennsylvania, where he met poets Ezra Pound and Hilda Doolittle. After interning for two years in New York hospitals and studying pediatrics at the University of Leipzig, Williams...
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