H.D., the pen name of Hilda Doolittle, wrote poetry, fiction and memoir that move from the concentrated images of early Imagism into myth, psychoanalysis and wartime spiritual writing. Sea Garden contains short poems built from hard natural images, compressed syntax and unusual perspectives on flowers, sea and landscape. Trilogy, written during the Second World War, uses bombed London, Egyptian and Christian imagery, alchemy and renewal in a more expansive sequence. Her novel HER and memoir-like prose including Tribute to Freud examine sexuality, artistic identity and her encounters with psychoanalysis. H.D.'s writing is spare and crystalline in the early poems but increasingly layered and allusive in later work. Her books fit modernist poetry, queer modernism and mythic writing, especially for readers interested in Ezra Pound, Marianne Moore and women writers reshaping classical material. Read more Less
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