Born on September 10, 1886, in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, Hilda Doolittle entered Bryn Mawr College in 1904 and while a student there formed friendships with Marianne Moore, a fellow student, and with Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams, who were at the nearby University of Pennsylvania. Ill health forced her to leave college in 1906. Five years later she traveled to Europe for what was to have been a vacation but became a permanent stay, mainly in England and Switzerland. Her first published poems, sent to Poetry magazine by Pound, appeared under the initials H. D., which remained thereafter her nom de plume. Other poems appeared in Pound╒s anthology Des Imagistes, 1914, and in the London journal The Egoist, edited by Richard Aldington, whom she married in October 1913.
H.D.╒s first volume of verse, Sea Garden, 1916, established her as an important voice among the radical young Imagist poets. Subsequent volumes included Hymen, 1921, Heliodora and Other Poems, 1924, Collected Poems, 1925, Hippolytus Temporizes, 1927, Red Roses for Bronze, 1931, a translation of Euripides╒ Ion, 1937, Collected Poems, 1940, and a trilogy comprising The Walls Do Not Fall, 1944, Tribute to the Angels, 1945, and Flowering of the Rod, 1946. Over the years her sharp, spare, and rather passionless manner mellowed and took on rich religious and mystic overtones, becoming in the process less modernist and more open to the wider heritage of poetic tradition. H. D. published also a number of prose works, including four novels╤Palimpsest, 1926, Hedylus, 1928, The Hedgehog, 1936, and Bid Me to Live, 1960╤and the semiautobiographical Tribute to Freud, 1956. From 1916 to 1920 she edited The Egoist. Helen in Egypt, verse, was her last book, appearing shortly after her death in Zƒrich, Switzerland, on September 27, 1961.
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