 After the war , H.D. and Bryher no longer lived together , but remained in contact . H.D. moved to Switzerland where , in the spring of 1946 , she suffered a severe mental breakdown , which resulted in her staying in a clinic until the autumn of that year . Apart from a number of trips to the States , H.D. spent the rest of her life in Switzerland . In the late 1950s , she underwent more treatment , this time with the psychoanalyst Erich Heydt . At Heydt 's prompting , she wrote End to Torment , a memoir of her relationship with Pound , who allowed the poems of Hilda 's Book to be included when the book was published . Doolittle was one of the leading figures in the bohemian culture of London in the early decades of the century . Her later poetry explores traditional epic themes , such as violence and war , from a feminist perspective . H.D. was the first woman to be granted the American Academy of Arts and Letters medal . 
