I think that I can safely say that for  Pound  a really good strong
biography (clear, accurate and without prejudices)  has yet to be written!
New material continues to surface and aspects of his life not covered in
existing biographies continue to be studied and developed in individual
treatises.
 
H.D. is in the same plight.  The biography by Janice Robinson is
dreadful--based upon preconceived and unsubstantiated premises.  The
biography by Barbara Guest, while a poet's biography (one poet writing
about another) has been eclipsed by new material found in individual more
specialized studies and not yet incorporated into a full biography.  It too
presents problems relating  to dating and identification of sources!  There
are scholars, like Susan Friedman, who continue to work on H.D. (sort of)
but their research appears in the guise of critical studies not full scale
biographies.
 
Both are overdue, ripe and wide open for new and more accurate biographical
studies!
 
Is there any fresh blood out there?
 
Cheers
Louis H. Silverstein
Literary Anthropologist (specializing in H.D. and her circle as well as
things mysterious)
(e-mail: [log in to unmask])
 
"Books determine, have determined, will determine our lives, as readers and
writers, and for this, let us give thanks."  Lawrence Clark Powell.  BOOKS
WEST SOUTHWEST  (1957: 37)