The Life of Hilda Doolittle

I enjoyed reading poetry by a female this week. Since H.D. was our first female poet in class, after I finished our readings I decided to do some research on her life. What I became aware of and found most interesting was the fact that Hilda Doolittle was a woman of her time who became noticed. I found that Hilda Doolittle was a Pennsylvania native and that she attended the University of Pennsylvania. While she was attending college she became friends with the well-known William Carlos Williams and Ezra Pound. It was through the help Ezra Pound that Doolittle began to experiment with Imagism. H.D. soon became the conductor of the Imagist movement and gained recognition, but that recognition was not universal.

Hilda Doolittle was disregarded during her lifetime mostly due to the feminist subject matter within her work. However, today Doolittle's work can be attributed to that of inspiration. It makes me sad to think that H.D.'s work was not held with high appreciation, but I am personally glad that a female poet can be considered great today. It shows how far we, as a society, have come.