H. D.'s "memoir" of Ezra Pound [End to Torment] is somewhat mistitled since written late in her life, it is more an exploration of her feelings about Pound, and about others, than a detailed recollection of the poet. Their relationship had originated in a youthful and ardently romanticized love affair during Pound's graduate year at the University of Pennsylvania, albeit one strictly supervised by H. D.'s father. By the time H. D. betook herself to London in 1911 the romance was over, and she was quickly drawn to Richard Aldington and to others in the London international set.

Students of H. D. should find more of interest in the work than students of Pound. The latter, perhaps, will be most gratified by … the text of "Hilda's Book," a small volume of poems Pound wrote for H. D. during their romance, which now appears for the first time...