 The early models for the Imagist group were from Japan , and H.D. often visited the exclusive Print Room at the British Museum in the company of Richard Aldington and the curator and poet Laurence Binyon in order to examine <unk> @-@ e prints that incorporated traditional Japanese verse . However , she also derived her way of making poems from her reading of Classical Greek literature and especially of Sappho , an interest she shared with Aldington and Pound , each of whom produced versions of the Greek poet 's work . In 1915 , H.D. and Aldington launched the Poets ' Translation Series , pamphlets of translations from Greek and Latin classics . H.D. worked on the plays by Euripides , publishing in 1916 a translation of choruses from <unk> at Aulis , in 1919 a translation of choruses from <unk> at Aulis and Hippolytus , an adaptation of Hippolytus called Hippolytus <unk> ( 1927 ) , a translation of choruses from The Bacchae and Hecuba ( 1931 ) , and Euripides ' Ion ( 1937 ) a loose translation of Ion . 
