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Richard Aldington. 1892–1962. Richard Aldington was prominent in several literary capacities; most notably as a founding poet of the Imagist movement and as a novelist who conveyed the horror of World War I through his written works. He was also a prolific critic, translator, and essayist.
Educated at Dover College and London University, Aldington early attracted attention through his volumes of Imagist verse (see Imagists). In 1913 he married Hilda Doolittle (H.D.; divorced 1938), the American Imagist poet. Aldington’s contribution is difficult to assess.
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Richard Aldington (8 July 1892 – 27 July 1962), born Edward Godfree Aldington, was an English writer and poet, and an early associate of the Imagist movement. He was married to the poet Hilda Doolittle (H. D.) from 1911 to 1938.
Aldington became friends with Ezra Pound and was an early member of the Imagist movement, publishing the poetry collection Images Old and New (The Four Seas Company, 1916). He married the poet H. D. , another important figure in Imagism, in 1913; they divorced in 1938.
- World War I and Aftermath
- Relationship with T. S. Eliot
- Later Life
- A Savage Style and Embitterment
- Legacy
- Works
- The Religion of Beauty
- References
- External Links
He joined the army in 1916, was commissioned in the Royal Sussexs in 1917 and was wounded on the Western Front.Aldington never completely recovered from his war experiences, and although it was prior to diagnoses of PTSD, he was likely suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Aldington and H. D. attempted to mend their marriage in 1919, after...
He helped T. S. Eliot in a practical way, by persuading Harriet Shaw Weaver to appoint Eliot as his successor at The Egoist (helped by Pound), and later in 1919 with an introduction to the editor Bruce Richmond of the Times Literary Supplement, for which he reviewed French literature. He was on the editorial board, with Conrad Aiken, Eliot, Lewis a...
He went into self-imposed 'exile' from England in 1928.He lived in Paris for years, living with Brigit Patmore, and being fascinated by Nancy Cunard whom he met in 1928. After his divorce in 1938, he married Netta, née McCullough, previously Brigit's daughter-in-law as Mrs. Michael Patmore. Death of a Hero, published in 1929, was his literary respo...
Aldington could write with an acid pen. The Georgian poets, who (Pound had decided) were the Imagists' sworn enemies, he devastated with the accusation of a little trip for a little weekend to a little cottage where they wrote a little poem on a little theme. He took swipes at Harold Monro, whose Poetry Reviewhad published him and given him reviewi...
Imagism
Aldington became a prominent member of the short-lived literary movement Imagism just prior to World War I. Determined to promote the work of the Imagists, and particularly of Aldington and H.D., Ezra Pound decided to publish an anthology under the title, Des Imagistes. This was published in 1914, by the Poetry Bookshop in London. In addition to ten poems by Aldington, seven by H.D., and six by Pound, the book included work by Flint, Skipwith Cannell, Amy Lowell, William Carlos Williams, Jame...
War poets
Aldington was one of a number of poets who experienced the horrors of World War I and took the theme as a subject of poetry. These poets came to be known as "war poets." Although not the first poets to write about their military experiences, they used poetry not to glorify military conquest but to express the pain and suffering of war. Other key poets from this group included Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoonamong others. These poets have profoundly influenced the nature of the poetic treatm...
Images (1910 – 1915) (1915) as Images - Old and New(1916) (US)The Poems of Anyte of Tegea(1916) translatorImages of Desire(Elkin Mathews, 1919)Images of War(1919)The Religion of Beauty (subtitle Selections From the Aesthetes) was a prose and poetry anthology edited by Aldington and published in 1950. Listed below are the authors Aldington included, providing insight into Aldingtons generation and tastes:
Doyle, Charles. Richard Aldington, A Biography. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1989. ISBN 9780809315666Doyle, Charles. Richard Aldington: Reappraisals. English Literary Studies, University of Victoria, 1990. ISBN 9780920604502Gates, Norman T. The Poetry of Richard Aldington. University Park, Pennsylvania State University Press, 1975. ISBN 9780271011196Gates, Norman T. A Checklist of the Letters of Richard Aldington. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1977. ISBN 9780809307814All links retrieved July 28, 2019. 1. Richard Aldington 2. Richard Aldington Biography 3. Richard Aldington Bibliography 4. Archival material relating to Richard Aldingtonlisted at the UK National Register of Archives
May 4, 2018 · Richard Aldington (1892-1962) is a figure who tends to be mentioned alongside his more famous contemporaries: as an imagist he usually figures less highly in histories of the movement than his sometime wife, H. D., while as a novelist of the Great War he comes behind Ernest Hemingway, Ford Madox Ford, and Erich Maria Remarque.
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. His 50-year writing career covered poetry, novels, criticism and biography.
