SATB and Bass Drum, includes rehearsal piano
4.5 minutes
 
Hilda Doolittle (1886-1961) was an American modernist poet who published under the name H.D. For much of the early twentieth century, she joined the ranks of many modernist writers and relocated to London. Whilst there, she met the likes of Ezra Pound, to whom she was briefly engaged, and Richard Aldington, to whom she was briefly married. H.D also entered into a relationship with lesbian British poet Bryher, and the two remained lovers for the rest of H.D's life. Due to the trauma of living through both world wars and her experience as a queer woman in the early twentieth century, H.D's poetry displays her own pacifism and sexuality. "After Troy" (2023) features in her 1924 poetry collection, Heliodora, and imagines a Trojan response to Greece's victory in the Trojan War.