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Exile. Death. Legacy. Style and bitterness. Works. References. Further reading. External links. Richard Aldington. Aldington in 1931. Richard Aldington (born Edward Godfree Aldington; 8 July 1892 – 27 July 1962) was an English writer and poet. He was an early associate of the Imagist movement.
Death of a Hero is a World War I novel by Richard Aldington. It was his first novel, published by Chatto & Windus in 1929, [1] and thought to be partly autobiographical . Plot summary. Death of a Hero is the story of a young English artist named George Winterbourne who enlists in the army at the beginning of World War I.
Richard Aldington (born July 8, 1892, Hampshire, Eng.—died July 27, 1962, Sury-en-Vaus, France) was a poet, novelist, critic, and biographer who wrote searingly and sometimes irascibly of what he considered to be hypocrisy in modern industrialized civilization.
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Aldington's somewhat autobiographical novel, Death of a Hero, published ten years after the war, graphically depicts the impact of war on a soldier's civilian life. The story explores the alienation and isolation of a young soldier, George Winterbourne, upon his return home on a leave of absence.
Apr 5, 2022 · His rejection of political orthodoxies and moral certainties was as full-throated as his disdain for conventional poetic form and metre. In the context of the place that the First World War has come to occupy in British society in the sixty years since Aldington died, Death of a Hero reads as practically sacrilegious.
Richard Aldington, born Edward Godfree Aldington, (July 8, 1892 – July 27, 1962) was an English writer and poet. Aldington was best known for his World War I poetry , the 1929 novel Death of a Hero , and the controversy arising from his 1955 Lawrence of Arabia: A Biographical Inquiry .
Download. XML. The story of Richard Aldington, outstanding Imagist poet and author of the bestselling war novel Death of a Hero (1929), takes place against the backdrop of some of the most turbulent and creative years of the twentieth century.
