When I recall writing this, the central debt to H.D. is clear and I am moved by the recollection. It was she who inspired this religious quest, just as she helped me see Athena in the image of the Virgin. I haven't read much of her work. I didn't feel it was necessary to argue. H.D.'s reputation is relatively secure.
Disagreements are merely interesting.
And every time I open a page to one of her poems, I'm transported again by her song. Frances Jaffer's essay will be published by the University of Iowa Press in H.D. and Poets After, ed. Donna K. Hollenberg.