 H.D. was born in Bethlehem , Pennsylvania , in 1886 and moved to London in 1911 , where her publications earned her a central role within the then emerging Imagist movement . A charismatic figure , she was championed by the modernist poet Ezra Pound , who was instrumental in building and furthering her career . From 1916 – 17 , she acted as the literary editor of the Egoist journal , while her poetry appeared in the English Review and the Transatlantic Review . During the First World War , H.D. suffered the death of her brother and the breakup of her marriage to the poet Richard Aldington , and these events weighed heavily on her later poetry . Glenn Hughes , an authority on Imagism , wrote that ' her loneliness cries out from her poems ' . She had a deep interest in Ancient Greek literature , and her poetry often borrowed from Greek mythology and classical poets . Her work is noted for its incorporation of natural scenes and objects , which are often used to emote a particular feeling or mood . 
