Remembering H. D. - Hilda Doolittle - on her birthday 🎂
📷 Man Ray, c. 1925
"She was beautiful, reckless, one of the poetesses whose poetry was feared and wondered over."
- D. H. Lawrence
H. D. by Man Ray, 1924
"To read H. D., early and late work, is like reading early and late Blake."
- Alicia Ostriker
Why is Sigmund Freud in this thread celebrating the birthday of the Bethlehem, Pennsylvania-born poet H. D.? It's because Hilda Doolittle took this photo of Freud in his study at Berggasse 19, Vienna, with his chow Jofi, c. 1937
I have a connection to H. D. - she was born in Bethlehem PA; her parents were important figures in the Moravian community. I spent my own early years there; my Dad went to Moravian College. I'm anxious to read H. D.'s memoir of her childhood, The Gift.
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H. D.
"Oread"
Whirl up, sea—
whirl your pointed pines,
splash your great pines
on our rocks,
hurl your green over us,
cover us with your pools of fir.
Five poems by H. D. were included in this list of The Most Anthologized Poems of the Last 25 Years
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In 1927 H. D., Bryher & Kenneth Macpherson set up the small independent cinema group POOL. Macpherson's 1930 film Borderline stars H. D. & Paul Robeson; watch on YouTube:
Hilda Doolittle's #bookplate
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