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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. 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.
3 days ago · Richard Aldington was a poet, novelist, critic, and biographer who wrote searingly and sometimes irascibly of what he considered to be hypocrisy in modern industrialized civilization. Educated at Dover College and London University, Aldington early attracted attention through his volumes of Imagist.
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’.
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.
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.
Aldington was assistant editor on the journal The Egoist for three years, but was conscripted in June 1916 and served with the 11 th Leicestershires (a pioneer regiment) on the Western Front until mid 1917. He returned to England to train as an officer and was commissioned in the 9 th Royal Sussex Regiment, returning to the Front in April 1918.
