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Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961), who published under the pen name H.D., was an American poet and novelist known for her participation with the early twentieth-century avant-garde Imagist movement and for helping to define free verse. Many of her poems questioned conventional gender roles, and she used myth to reconstruct a mythic past for women.

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Hermetic Definition

This late collection, written in the last years of H.D.'s life, is a testament to the fine ear and mythic sense of a poet who is now recognized as one of the greatest of her generation. H. D.

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Bid Me to Live

In the riveting and intense Bid Me to Live, H.D. documents her traumatic experiences during WWI on which she blamed a number of personal tragedies, including a stillborn child, the end of her marriage, and her pained relationship with D. H. Lawrence.

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Vale Ave: A Poem

Vale Ave (Latin for “Farewell, Hail”) is a hymn to Eros that unfolds as a gorgeous palimpsest of eternal recurrence and reincarnation, charting the course of two lovers who each seek the other across cultures, myths, and centuries.

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Hippolytus Temporizes & Ion: Adaptations from Euripides

Brilliant reworkings of Euripides' classic dramas by the great modernist poet H.D., now available in one volume. H.D.'s 1927 adaptation of Euripides's Hippolytus Temporizes and her 1937 translation of Ion appeared midpoint in her career.

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Tribute to Freud (Second Edition)

A classic of American literature, now with a new introduction by iconic author and psychotherapist Adam Phillips. “My bat-like thought-wings would beat painfully in that sudden searchlight,” H.D. writes in Tribute to Freud, her moving memoir.

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Collected Poems 1912-1944

The Collected Poems 1912-1944 of H. D. brings together all the shorter poems and poetical sequences of Hilda Doolittle (1886-1961) written before 1945.

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Helen in Egypt: Poetry

A fifty-line fragment by the poet Stesichorus of Sicily (c. 640-555 B.C.), what survives of his Pallinode, tells us almost all we know of this other Helen, and from it H. D. wove her book-length poem. The fabulous beauty of Helen of Troy is legendary.

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HD Selected Poems

Selected Poems, the first selection to encompass the rich diversity of Hilda Doolittle's poetry, is both confirmation and celebration of her long-overdue inclusion in the modernist canon. With both the general reader and the student in mind, editor Louis L.

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The Gift: Novel

The connections and interconnections of past and present––the realization that life is a whole continuously echoing back to the past and unfolding toward the future––were sources of the strength, renewal, and joy celebrated in H.D.

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Hermione

HERmione is the semi-autobiographical tale of Hilda Doolittle's early twenties. A young, confused woman about to come of age, Hermione Gart is split between her old self and a new, true identity.

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