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Hilda Doolittle ( September 10 , 1886 , Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, United States – September 27 , 1961 , Zürich, Switzerland), usually known only by her initials H.D. , was an American poet, novelist and memoirist. Sourced For one moment seek a lesser...


Biography

Name: Hilda Doolittle
Variant Name: H. D.
Birth Date: September 10, 1886
Death Date: 1961
Place of Birth: Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, United States
Place of Death: Switzerland
Nationality: American
Gender: Female
Occupations: poet, translator, novelist, author

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Biography of Hilda Doolittle
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The American poet, translator, and novelist Hilda Doolittle (1886-1961), generally called H. D., was an imagist whose lyric art conveys intense feelings through sharp images and "free" forms. Hilda Doolittle was born on Sept. 10, 1886, in Bethlehem,...
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Biography of Hilda Doolittle
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H. D.'s life and work recapitulate the central themes of literary modernism: the emergence from Victorian norms and certainties, the entry into an age characterized by rapid technological change and the violence of two great wars, and the development...
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Biography of Hilda Doolittle
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Hilda Doolittle is best known as the "perfect" Imagist. Since the publication of three short poems in January 1913, under the name "H. D., Imagiste," she has been the model of Imagism, the 1913-1917 literary movement which marked the starting point of...


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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H. D. Summary
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H. D. is best known as an exemplar of Imagism, the first important movement in twentieth-century poetry and a precursor of literary Modernism. As formulated by Ezra Pound, Imagism rejected conventional verse forms and upheld the image as the primary...
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H.D. Information
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H.D. (September 10, 1886, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, United States – September 27, 1961, Zürich, Switzerland), born Hilda Doolittle, was an American poet, novelist and memoirist. She is best known for her association with the key early 20th century...


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The Washington Post
H.D. Woodson Boys Win
11/10/1995: 451 words, approx. 2 pages
When Ballou junior Mwata Martin crossed the bridge at Fort Dupont Park in Southeast Washington yesterday, he was confident he would finish third in the D.C. Interscholastic Athletic Association cross- country championships. But Martin, who was a few hundred yards from the end, began...
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The Washington Post
Anacostia Defeats H.D. Woodson
10/25/1988: 336 words, approx. 1 pages
Anthony Butler threw an 18-yard touchdown pass to Jermaine Lindsey with 2:44 left in the game to give Anacostia an 8-6 Interhigh East Division victory over H.D. Woodson yesterday at Eastern. The winning touchdown came moments after Woodson Coach Bob Headen decided his...
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Vibe.com
NBA Draft, Upcoming MC H.D.'s Draft Song
6/28/2006: 423 words, approx. 1 pages
Vibe.com recently caught up with two promising players - Rudy Gay and Adam Morrsion -as they were preparing for tonight’s life-altering draft.In his college career at Gonzaga, Morrison drew comparisons to Dirk Nowitzki and basketball legend Larry Bird for his shooting range, being an apt...
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Big Twin Dealer
New Breed of Tech
11/1/2006: 1,458 words, approx. 5 pages
In the past five years the skills and knowledge necessary to be an A-level motorcycle technician have changed about as much as the electronics on today's motorcycles. That is to say — a lot. It may not be a bold, new world, but it's safe...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Susan Gubar
4,302 words, approx. 14 pages
One of H. D.'s most coherent and ambitious poetic narratives, her war Trilogy, explores the reasons for her lifelong fascination with the palimpsest…. H. D. presents herself as an outsider who must express her views from a consciously female perspective, telling the truth, as [Emily] Dickinson would say, "slant." Inheriting uncomfortable male-defined images of women and of history, H. D. responds with palimpsestic or encoded revisions of male myths. Thus …, she discovers b...
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Critical Essay by Susan Stanford Friedman
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Hilda Doolittle's emergence on the pages of Poetry magazine in 1913 as "H. D., Imagiste" heralded the beginnings of a writer whose canon spans half a century and the genres of poetry, fiction, memoir, essay, drama, and translation. This achievement was firmly rooted in H. D.'s central participation in the imagist movement, a short-lived moment in literary history, but one whose experiments changed the course of modern poetry with its concept of the "image" and its a...
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Critical Essay by Rachel Blau Duplessis
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In her life's work, H. D. returned constantly to a pattern of personal relations that she found perplexing and felt to be damaging to herself and other women: thralldom to males in romantic and spiritual love. In her later writing, she invented a number of strategies to transform this culturally mandated and seductive pattern of male-female relations. Romantic thralldom is a feature of many literary plots because of conventions surrounding love and marriage, quest and vocation, hero and heroine. Thes...
 


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