A collection of influential and generative studies of the work of H.D. (Hilda Doolittle), complemented with photobiographical, chronological and bibliographical portraits. The essays span H.D.'s career from its origins in Imagism to late modernism.

Bringing together the best criticism on H.D. (Hilda Dolittle), the editors have gathered the most influential and generative studies of H.D.'s work and complemented them with photo-biographical, chronological and bibliographical portraits. The essays in ""Signets"" span H.D.'s career from the origins of Imagism to late Modernism, from the early poems of ""Sea Garden"" to the novel ""Her"" and the epic poems ""Trilogy"" and ""Helen in Egypt"". In addition to the editors, the contributors are Diana Collecott, Robert Duncan, Albert Gelpi, Eileen Gregory, Susan Gubar, Barbara Guest, Elizabeth Hirsh, Deborah Kelly Kloepfer, Cassandra Laity, Adelaide Morris, Alicia Ostriker, Cyrena N.Pondrom, Perdita Schaffer, and Louis H.Silverstein.