Hilda Doolittle was born in Pennsylvania in 1886 into a large, intellectual family that was part of the Moravian Protestant sect. She attended Bryn Mawr College for a year where she befriended poet Marianne Moore, but dropped out due to poor health. She then attended the University of Pennsylvania where she met William Carlos Williams, and became romantically involved with Ezra Pound. Upon traveling to Europe in 1911, H.D. became heavily involved in the short-lived but important Imagist poetry movement—a style focused on powerful and precise imagery and poetic economy. Her poems were first published in Poetry magazine in 1913, and she published her first collection, Sea Garden, in 1916.
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