The famous American poet Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961) wrote her only, but widely known throughout the world, novel “Tell Me to Live” throughout her life. However, the Russian reader, having first opened the translation of the “madrigal” (this is the author’s definition of the genre), is surprised to recognize the heroes familiar to him from Richard Aldington’s book “Death of a Hero,” which has been published many times in our country. The same time, the same events, the fate of the younger generation, called “lost”, but only from a different, female point of view. About the novel: I was lucky enough to see beauty together with X. D. - this is a completely unique experience. An uncompromising person and, moreover, completely unbiased in matters of art, she has a brilliant gift of getting used to the subject. She is always tuned to a high wave and is never wasted on considerations of a lower order, and does not look for flaws in masterpieces. She catches you at a glance, responds so quickly, empathizes with the artist’s mood with such force that the work of art is transformed before your eyes... H.D.’s poetry is an expression of passionate contemplation of beauty...Richard Aldington “Living for Life” (1941)The most amazing thing The quality of X. D.’s poetry is its spontaneity... She embodies the flexible, obstinate, enchanting spirit of nature, for which the human principle is only one of the hypostases. Her poetry is akin to the worldview of our original Indian ancestors, rather than the Elizabethan or Victorian poets... The habit of being in the shadows saved H. D. from harmful publicity, especially at the first stage of creativity. Therefore, in her record there is no section “Works of her early years”: from the very first steps she declared herself as an established mature poet. Harriet Monroe “Poets and Their Work” (1926) I am happy and proud that my modest poetic opuses again stand next to the poetry of H.D. - our benevolent Muse, our guiding star, the pinnacle of our creative impulses... We once unconditionally called her these titles, and today she lives up to them more than ever! Ford Madox Ford “Preface to the Anthology of Imagism” (1930)