H.D.
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Hilda Doolittle was an American modernist poet, novelist, and memoirist who wrote under the name H.D. throughout her life. Her career began in 1911 after she moved to London and co-founded the avant-g
H.D. c. 1917
English writer and poet Richard Aldington in 1931; he and H.D. married in 1913 but soon became estranged, divorcing in 1938.
H.D. at approximately age 36 in 1922
A 1923 photo of Bryher by Man Ray
Imagism
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Imagism was a movement in early-20th-century poetry that favoured precision of imagery and clear, sharp language. It is considered the first organized modernist literary movement in the English langua
The expatriate American poet Ezra Pound in 1913; Pound collected poems from eleven poets in his first anthology of Imagist poetry, Des Imagistes, published in 1914.
The American Imagist Amy Lowell, who edited later volumes of Some Imagist Poets; in 1925, Lowell was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.