Hilda Doolittle, who published almost all her work as H.D., was born on 10 September 1886 in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and died on 27 September 1961 in Zürich, Switzerland. Few modern writers have so thoroughly transformed apparent limitation into artistic amplitude. The initials by which she became famous could seem austere, even impersonal: a pair of letters fit for the clean, compressed poems associated with Imagis…
“I have all faith in my work. I feel my work is beautiful, I have a deep faith in it, an absolute faith.”
Neighbourhood:
American Poets, Imagist Poets, LGBTQ+ Poets, Modernist Poets, Women Poets
Emotional landscape: Wonder, Spirituality, Longing
Helen Hoyt, born on 22 January 1887 in Norwalk, Connecticut, and dead on 2 August 1972, belonged to the generation of American poets that came of age just as literary modernism was remaking the possibilities of verse. She was a poet, editor, anthologist, and perceptive advocate for new writing, yet her name has often remained at the edges of accounts dominated by more famous contemporaries. That relative obscurity ca…
“Art is surely sexless. There isn't man's poetry and woman's poetry. A poem must satisfy the same canons whether it happens to have been written by a man or by a woman.”
Neighbourhood:
American Poets, Confessional Poets, Imagist Poets, Modernist Poets, Women Poets
Emotional landscape: Longing, Tenderness, Sensuality
