H.D.: References & Edit History

Additional Reading

Barbara Guest, Herself Defined: The Poet H.D. and Her World (1984), is an authorized biography. Janice S. Robinson, H.D.: The Life and Work of an American Poet (1982), concentrates more on literary analysis. Additional criticism includes Harold Bloom (ed.), H.D. (1989, reissued 2002); Susan Stanford Friedman and Rachel Blau DuPlessis (eds.), Signets: Reading H.D. (1990); Susan Stanford Friedman, Penelope’s Web: Gender, Modernity, H.D.’s Fiction (1990); Dianne Chisholm, H.D.’s Freudian Poetics: Psychoanalysis in Translation (1992); and Diana Collecott, H.D. and Sapphic Modernism, 1910–1950 (1999).

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Anniversary information added. Sep 23, 2025
Anniversary information added. Sep 06, 2025
First paragraph modernization. Feb 28, 2024
Photograph added. Sep 07, 2022
Title changed from “Hilda Doolittle” to “H.D.” Sep 07, 2022
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Add new Web site: Pennsylvania Center for the Book - Biography of Hilda Doolittle. Jan 31, 2014
Add new Web site: Poetry Foundation - Biography of Hilda Doolittle. Apr 10, 2013
Added new Web site: Poets.org - Biography of Hilda Doolittle.
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Article revised. Feb 24, 2005
Article revised. Feb 10, 2000
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