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Cournos, John

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1881 - 1966

Found in 1 Collection or Record:

H.D. and Bryher papers

 Collection
Identifier: BMC-M51
Overview The poet and philhellenist H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) was born in 1886 in Bethlehem, PA. Around 1895, the Doolittle family moved from the Moravian community in Bethlehem to Upper Darby. While living in Pennsylvania, H.D. met fellow poets Ezra Pound, to whom she was briefly engaged, and William Carlos Williams. Both of the young men were students at the University of Pennyslvania, where Hilda's father was a professor of astronomy. She began attending Bryn Mawr College in 1905 as a day student and...
Dates: 1916 - 1972