1. HILDA DOOLITTLE
By Tyler Richardson

2. Hilda Doolittle was born on September 10, 1886 in Bethlehem, PA.
Early Life
Hilda Doolittle was born on September 10, 1886 in Bethlehem, PA.
Her parents were Professor Charles Doolittle and Helen Wolle.
Hilda moved to Philadelphia, PA when she was 9 years old.
Much of her child hood she suffered from insecurity and sibling rivalry.

3. H.D. attended Bryn Mawr College in 1904.
College life
H.D. attended Bryn Mawr College in 1904.
While attending she became good friends with Ezra Pound & Marianne Moore.
She failed English in college, but began to take Greek more serious.
In 1906, her sophomore year, H.D. dropped out of college due to poor health.

4. For the next 5 years H.D. began to study Greek and Latin literature.
After College
For the next 5 years H.D. began to study Greek and Latin literature.
She attempted translation and wrote some poems.
H.D. traveled to Europe for a vacation, but later stayed permanently in Switzerland and England.
With the help of Ezra Pound ( to whom she was briefly engaged to.. twice), she was introduced to London’s Literary Circles and there met Richard Aldington.

5. Hilda Doolittle married Aldington on October 18, 1913 in Kensington.
Life in Europe
Hilda Doolittle married Aldington on October 18, 1913 in Kensington.
Later in 1916, however, Aldington left for World War One. She replaced him as the editor of the Egoist.
During Aldington’s absence, H.D. became very ill due to her father’s death in 1919 and the stresses of the war. (her brother died fighting in France) H.D. was also pregnant during this time.

6. She ended up separating from Aldington in 1919.
EUROPE CONTINUED
She ended up separating from Aldington in 1919.
On March 31st, 1919 she gave birth to her daughter Frances Perdita, or just Perdita. The father was Cecil Gray, a friend of D.H. Lawrence, (whom she also had intense relations with).

7. In 1961, Hilda Doolittle died in Switzerland after a stroke and coma.
Later on
Met Winifred Ellerman (also known as Bryher.) The two became “good friends” and were together throughout each other’s many relationships (and Winifred’s marriages). People often criticized H.D. for her bisexuality.
H.D. lived during WW2.
Hilda Doolittle suffered a mental breakdown and returned back to Switzerland.
In 1961, Hilda Doolittle died in Switzerland after a stroke and coma.

8. H.D. was one of greatest imagist writers in history.
Imagist writing
H.D. was one of greatest imagist writers in history.
Imagist writing: based on common speech, free moving, a musical phrase rather than a distinct structure. (H.D. had lyric art written about intense feelings by using free structure)

9. Revision of renewal and peace.
themes
Revision of renewal and peace.
The intersection of the historical and the personal in her stance as a woman.
Modernist sense of quest in a shattered and war-torn world.
Sense of the sacred, manifested in both female and male forms
Exploration of language.

10. Her life in literature
Began writing after dropping out of college. She attempted translating Latin and wrote a few poems.
Her love for Greek and Latin art and literature is focused on in her writing.

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12. Helen by h.d.
  All Greece hates the still eyes in the white face, the lustre as of olives where she stands, and the white hands. All Greece reviles the wan face when she smiles, hating it deeper still when it grows wan and white, remembering past enchantments and past ills. Greece sees, unmoved, God's daughter, born of love, the beauty of cool feet and slenderest knees, could love indeed the maid, only if she were laid, white ash amid funereal cypresses.

13. Helen in Egypt. New York: Grove Press, 1961.
works
Poetry:
Helen in Egypt. New York: Grove Press, 1961.
Hermetic Definition. New York: New Directions Publication, Corp., 1972.
Collected Poems, New York: New Directions, 1983.
Memoirs:
Tribute to Freud. New York: Pantheon, 1956.
End to Torment: a Memoir of Ezra. New York: New Directions Publication, Corp., 1979.

14. Palimpsest. Boston; New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1926.
Works continued
Novels:
Des Imagistes. (with Richard Aldington; Skipwith Cannell, John Cournos, F.S. Flint, Ford Madox Ford, James Joyce, Amy Lowell, Ezra Pound, Kazimierz Przerwa-Tetmajer, Allen Upward, and Carlos WilliamWilliams) London: Poetry Bookshop, 1914.
Palimpsest. Boston; New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1926.
Nights. Dijon, France: Imprimerie Darantiere, 1935.
Bid Me to Live: a Madrigal. New York: Grover Press, 1960
HERmione. New York: New Directions Publication, Corp., 1981.
The Gift. London: Virago, 1982

15. Works cited
"Doolittle, Hilda." World Authors (1996): Biography Reference Bank (H.W. Wilson). Web. 11 Nov
Gilbert, Sandra M., and Susan Gubar. The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women. New York [u.a.: Norton, Print.