H.D.'s wartime masterwork, written in London during the Blitz, weaves Egyptian mythology, Christian mysticism, and feminist vision into a poem of survival and renewal. Long overshadowed by Pound (who named her "H.D., Imagiste") and by her gender, the Trilogy is now recognized as one of the great sustained poems of the century: a woman writing a new mythology in the rubble of Western civilization.

The case for it, the case against, and the rest of the canon open with Pro.