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Hilda Doolittle was born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, the
daughter of a music teacher and an astronomer. When she was
fifteen, her father was appointed head of the observatory
at the University of Pennsylvania, so the family moved to
Philadelphia; there, Doolittle met Ezra Pound, then a student.
It was Pound who gave her the pen name "H. D.,"
which she used for the first time in 1913 when Poetry
magazine published three of her poems. With her spare, elegant
lyrics; vivid phrasing; concrete, compelling imagery; and
short poetic line, H. D. became one of the primary writers
of the Imagism movement. Her works include The Walls Do
Not Fall (1944), Tribute to the Angels (1945),
The Flowering Rod (1946), and Collected Poems
1912-1944 (1983).
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