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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.
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.
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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Richard Aldington - Richard Aldington was born in Hampshire, England, in 1892. An early member of the Imagist movement, he was the author of War and Love (1915-1919) (The Four Seas Company, 1919), Images (The Egoist, 1919), and numerous other books of poetry and prose.
May 4, 2018 · Richard Aldington was many things: poet, editor, critic, biographer, novelist, modernist, anti-modernist. He was a rebel even within the rebellious movement to which he nominally belonged. Not long after her poetry began to appear in print, H. D. was labelled ‘the perfect imagist’.
Apr 5, 2022 · The first name on the war poets’ stone is no longer famous. Yet Richard Aldington (1892-1962) was perhaps, in his time, the best known of all the sixteen men commemorated there. His career was certainly the most varied.
A Short Biography. A ldington, christened Edward Godfree, was born at Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, on July 8, 1892. At an early age, he moved with his mother, Jesse May, and father, middle-class lawer Albert Edward Aldington, to Dover.
