Perhaps this is a time not so much for an evaluation of H. D.'s art as it is an appropriate time to acquaint ourselves with just what H. D.'s art is. (p. 152)

The most common adverse criticism of H. D.'s early poetry was that it made no social protest and that it was not journalism…. Keeping the elements of style for which she was praised early, H. D. has developed a poetic structure that is clearly unique and yet one could say that it is in the tradition of the best meditative lyricists (Herbert, Donne, Dickinson), and of the best elegists (Milton, Wordsworth, Whitman). For H. D. writes directly to the hugest problem of our time, that of life against destruction. Her answer may not be new in all its facets, but the elaboration is poignant. (pp. 154-55)

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