H. D.

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Standard Name: H. D.
Used Form: Hilda Doolittle
Birth Name: Hilda Doolittle
Married Name: Hilda Aldington
Self-constructed Name: H. D.
Pseudonym: John Helforth
Pseudonym: Edith Gray
Pseudonym: Helga Dorn
Pseudonym: J. Beran
Pseudonym: Rhoda Peter
Pseudonym: Helga Dart
Pseudonym: Delia Alton
Nickname: Dryad
Nickname: Dooley
Nickname: Astraea
HD, born American, who took British nationality after a marriage which lasted longer on paper than in practice, was a key figure in the international Imagist movement of the early twentieth century and in modernism more broadly: both through her own poetry and through her editing and dissemination of the work of others. As well as her imagistic pieces, she wrote complex longer poems (most published during her lifetime), translation, essays, reviews, outlines for films, and autobiographical novels which are, like most of her work, explorations of the self. Here she writes à clef of her own past, but also builds a web of mythical and psycho-analytical reference which makes her texts dense as well as rewarding. She is an explorer of the female psyche, and of the relation of gender to creativity and of myth to psychoanalysis.

Connections

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Intertextuality and Influence Bryher
Bryher's Poetry pieces appear again, along with others, in this volume. Focusing especially on the poems Amazon and Eos, Susan Stanford Friedman observes Bryher's development of an Artemisian discourse
Friedman, Susan Stanford. Penelope’s Web: Gender, Modernity, H.D.’s Fiction. Cambridge University Press, 1990, http://Rutherford HSS.
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shared with H. D.
Intertextuality and Influence Ali Smith
The book's narrator is an unnamed, ungendered arborist in mourning for his or her unnamed, ungendered partner, a literary academic whose spectre lingers about the book both figuratively, in the form of unfinished lectures, and...
Intertextuality and Influence Bryher
Through meeting and observing these women and through her reading (including the Elizabethans, a Futurist manifesto, and H. D. 's poetry), Nancy works to stretch her ideas beyond the often limited, conventional possibilities for women...
Intertextuality and Influence Bryher
This text was inspired by the author's continued attachment to H. D. , as well as her long-wished-for trip to the United States, which she took with H. D. and the latter's daughter, Perdita
Intertextuality and Influence Jane Ellen Harrison
JEH 's work exerted a palpable influence on the Modernist movement in literature, and both her persona and her life's work were represented, sometimes in much modified form, in many creative texts. Critic Julia Briggs
Intertextuality and Influence Sappho
Following Michael Field , many twentieth-century, lesbian-identified writers treat Sappho as a crucial precursor. She became a figure for modernism with the work of HD and Virginia Woolf . The Lavender Nation was named from...
Literary responses Bryher
In an Egoist review, Richard Aldington praised Bryher for following the literary-literal principles recently established by the Poets' Translation Series, which he and H. D. were running at the Egoist Press , and which...
Literary responses Violet Hunt
VH 's biography was warmly received both formally and informally. H. D. (Hilda Doolittle ) wrote to Hunt from Switzerland on 30 September 1932, imagining [h]ow happy the book must make you! The style...
Literary responses Charlotte Mew
May Sinclair thought Madeleine magnificent, having depths & depths of passion & of sheer beauty.
qtd. in
Raitt, Suzanne. May Sinclair: A Modern Victorian. Clarendon Press, 2000.
191
She also enjoyed the high Victorian melodrama of Mew's reading aloud.
Raitt, Suzanne. May Sinclair: A Modern Victorian. Clarendon Press, 2000.
192
Despite her efforts to bring The Farmer's...
Literary responses Bryher
After reading the highly enthusiastic pamphlet, Lowell sent an appreciative message to Bryher, but expressed some (ultimately unfounded) concern about it in another letter to H. D. : the girl has insight and a good...
Material Conditions of Writing Bryher
When Bryher and her companion H. D. travelled to Greece in the spring of 1920, the trip profoundly affected the personal and professional outlook of each; these poems were part of the result.
Bryher,. The Heart to Artemis: A Writer’s Memoirs. Collins, 1963.
191
Quartermain, Peter, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 45. Gale Research, 1986.
128
Occupation Harriet Shaw Weaver
The Egoist Press went on to publish Dora Marsden's The Definition of the Godhead, Eliot 's The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, Pound 's Dialogues of Fontenelle, Lewis 's Tarr,...
Occupation Bryher
With funds and additional production assistance, Bryher contributed to Weaver 's Egoist Press 's Poets' Translation Series. She also subsidized the publication of Hymen by H. D. , which, like Moore's collection, was released...
Occupation Edith Sitwell
It was well attended by women writers. Ivy Compton-Burnett and Bryher were there, and H. D. and Vita Sackville-West were among the other readers on the evening's programme. Dorothy Wellesley was to have read also...
Occupation Bryher
In July 1927 Bryher and Macpherson founded Close Up magazine, dedicated to avant-garde film theories and practices.
Hanscombe, Gillian, and Virginia L. Smyers. Writing for Their Lives: The Modernist Women, 1910-1940. Women’s Press, 1987.
276
Both as editor and contributor, Bryher used Close Up as a forum to develop and share her...

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