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Richard Aldington

Richard Aldington, born Edward Godfree Aldington, (8 July 1892 – 27 July 1962) was an English

England

Poetry

Poetry is a form of literature art in which language is used for its aesthetics and evocative qualities in addition to, or in lieu of, its apparent meaning ....
.

Aldington was best known for his World War I

World War I

World War I, or the First World War , was a global military conflict which involved the Great powers, organized into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War I and the Central Powers....
poetry

Poetry

Poetry is a form of literature art in which language is used for its aesthetics and evocative qualities in addition to, or in lieu of, its apparent meaning ....
, the 1929 novel Death of a Hero
Death of a Hero

Death of a Hero is a World War I novel by Richard Aldington. It was his first novel, written in 1929, and thought to be partly autobiography....
, and the controversy arising from his 1955 Lawrence of Arabia: A Biographical Inquiry.

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Richard Aldington, born Edward Godfree Aldington, (8 July 1892 – 27 July 1962) was an English

England

Poetry

World War I

Poetry

James Tait Black Memorial Prize

Founded in 1919, the James Tait Black Memorial Prizes are among the oldest and most prestigious book prizes awarded for literature written in the English language and are Britain's oldest literary awards....
for that year.

Early life

Aldington was born in Portsmouth, the son of a solicitor, and educated at Dover College

Dover College

Dover College is a co-educational public school in Dover, Kent, England. It was founded in 1871, and takes both day pupils and boarders....
, and for a year at the University of London

University of London

Based primarily in London, England, United Kingdom, the University of London is a federal mega university made up of 31 affiliates: 19 separate university institutions, and 12 research institutes....
. He was unable to complete his degree because of the financial circumstances of his family. He met the poet H.D.

H.D.

H.D. was an American poetry, novelist and memoirist best known for her association with the early 20th century avant-garde Imagism group of poets such as Ezra Pound and Richard Aldington....
in 1911 and they married two years later.

Man of letters

His poetry was associated with the Imagist group, and his work forms almost one third of the Imagists' inaugural anthology Des Imagistes (1914). Ezra Pound

Ezra Pound

Ezra Weston Loomis Pound was an United States expatriate poetry, critic and intellectual who was a major figure of the Modernist poetry movement in the first half of the 20th century....
had in fact coined the term imagistes for H.D. and Aldington, in 1912.

At this time he was one of the poets around the proto-Imagist T. E. Hulme

T. E. Hulme

Thomas Ernest Hulme was an English writer who, during his informal tenure from 1909 as critic for The New Age, edited by A. R. Orage, had a notable influence upon modernism....
; Robert Ferguson in his life of Hulme portrays Aldington as too squeamish to approve of Hulme's robust approach, particularly to women. He knew Wyndham Lewis

Wyndham Lewis

Percy Wyndham Lewis was an England Painting and author . He was a co-founder of the Vorticist movement in art, and edited the literary magazine of the Vorticists, BLAST ....
well, also, reviewing his work in The Egoist
The Egoist (periodical)

The Egoist was a London literary magazine published from 1914 in poetry to 1919 in poetry, during which time it published early modernist works, including those of James Joyce and T....
at this time, hanging a Lewis portfolio around the room and (on a similar note of tension between the domestic and the small circle of London

London

London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
modernists regretting having lent Lewis his razor when the latter announced with hindsight a venereal infection. Going out without a hat, and an interest in Fabian socialism, were perhaps unconventional enough for him. At this time he was also an associate of Ford Madox Hueffer, helping him with a hack propaganda volume for a government commission in 1914 and taking dictation for The Good Soldier when H.D. found it too harrowing.

In 1915 Aldington and H.D. moved within London, away from Holland Park

Holland Park

Holland Park is a district and a public park in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, in west central London in England. Holland Park is widely regarded as one of the most romantic parks in London, due to its abundant wildlife and secluded hideaways....
very near Ezra Pound and Dorothy, to Hampstead

Hampstead

Hampstead is an area of London, England, located north-west of Charing Cross. It is part of the London Borough of Camden. It is situated within Inner London....
, close to D. H. Lawrence

D. H. Lawrence

David Herbert Richards Lawrence was an England author, poet, playwright, essayist and literary criticism. His collected works represent an extended reflection upon the dehumanizing effects of modernity and industrialization....
and Frieda. Their relationship became strained by external romantic interests and the stillborn birth of their child. Between 1914 and 1916 he was literary editor of The Egoist, and columnist there. He was assistant editor with Leonard Compton-Rickett under Dora Marsden

Dora Marsden

Dora Marsden was an English Feminism editing of avant-garde literary journals, and an author of philosophy writings....
. The gap between the Imagist and Futurist groups was defined partly by Aldington's critical disapproval of the poetry of Filippo Marinetti.

World War I and aftermath

He joined the army in 1916, was commissioned in the Royal Sussexs

Royal Sussex Regiment

The Royal Sussex Regiment, a regiment in the British Army , was formed in 1881 from the 35th Regiment of Foot and the 107th Regiment of Foot ....
in 1917 and was wounded on the Western Front

Western Front

Western Front was a term used during the World War I and World War II world war to describe the "contested armed frontier" between lands controlled by Germany to the East and the Allies to the West....
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 the birth of her daughter by a friend of writer D. H. Lawrence

D. H. Lawrence

David Herbert Richards Lawrence was an England author, poet, playwright, essayist and literary criticism. His collected works represent an extended reflection upon the dehumanizing effects of modernity and industrialization....
, named Cecil Gray, with whom she had become involved and lived with while Aldington was at war. However, she was by this time deeply involved in a lesbian

Lesbian

File:Lesbian Couple from back holding hands.jpgLesbian is a term most widely used in the English language to describe sexual and romantic desire between females....
relationship with the wealthy writer Bryher

Bryher

Bryher was the pen name of the novelist, poet, memoirist, and magazine editor Annie Winifred Ellerman. She was born in September 1894 in Margate....
, and she and Aldington formally separated, both becoming romantically involved with other people, but they did not divorce until 1938. They remained friends, however, for the rest of their lives.

Relationship with T. S. Eliot

He helped T. S. Eliot

T. S. Eliot

'Thomas Stearns Eliot', Order of Merit , was a poet, dramatist, and literary critic. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948. Among his most famous writings are the poems The Love Song of J....
in a practical way, by persuading Harriet Shaw Weaver

Harriet Shaw Weaver

Harriet Shaw Weaver was a Activism and a journal Editing. She also became the patronage of James Joyce.Harriet Shaw Weaver was born in Frodsham, Cheshire, the daughter of Frederic Poynton Weaver, a Physician, and Mary Wright, who had inherited a fortune from her father....
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

Conrad Aiken

Conrad Potter Aiken was an American novelist and poet, whose work includes poetry, short story, novels, and an autobiography.He was born in Savannah, Georgia....
, Eliot, Lewis and Aldous Huxley

Aldous Huxley

Aldous Leonard Huxley was an English writer and one of the most prominent members of the famous Huxley family. He spent the later part of his life in the United States, living in Los Angeles from 1937 until his death in 1963....
, of Chaman Lall's London literary quarterly Coterie published 1919-1921. With Lady Ottoline Morrell

Lady Ottoline Morrell

The Lady Ottoline Violet Anne Morrell was an England aristocrat and society hostess. Her patronage was influential in artistic and intellectual circles, where she befriended writers such as Aldous Huxley, Siegfried Sassoon, T....
, Leonard Woolf

Leonard Woolf

Leonard Sidney Woolf was a noted British political theorist, author, publisher, and civil servant, but perhaps now best known as the widower of author Virginia Woolf....
and Harry Norton he took part in Ezra Pound's scheme to 'get Eliot out of the bank' (Eliot had a job in the international department of Lloyd's, a London bank, and well-meaning friends wanted him full-time writing poetry). This manoeuvre towards Bloomsbury

Bloomsbury Group

The Bloomsbury Group was an England collectivity of friends and relatives who lived in or near London during the first half of the twentieth century....
came to little, with Eliot getting £50 and unwelcome publicity in the Liverpool Post, but gave Lytton Strachey

Lytton Strachey

Giles Lytton Strachey was a United Kingdom writer and critic. He is best known for establishing a new form of biography in which psychology insight and sympathy are combined with irreverence and wit....
an opening for mockery.

Aldington made an effort with A Fool I' the Forest (1924) to reply to the new style of poetry launched by The Waste Land
The Waste Land

The Waste Land is a revolutionary, highly influential 434-line Modernist poetry in English by T. S. Eliot. Despite the alleged obscurity of the poem ? its shifts between satire and prophecy, its abrupt and unannounced changes of Narrator, Setting , its elegiac but intimidating summoning up of a vast and dissonant range of cultures and li...
. He was being published at the time, for example in The Chapbook, but clearly took on too much hack work just to live. He suffered some sort of breakdown in 1925. His interest in poetry waned, and he was straighforwardly jealous of Eliot's celebrity.

His attitude towards Eliot shifted, from someone who would mind the Eliots' cat in his cottage (near Reading, Berkshire

Reading, Berkshire

Reading is a town in England, located at the confluence of the River Thames and River Kennet, midway between London and Swindon off the M4 motorway....
, in 1921), and to whom Eliot could confide his self-diagnosis of abulia. Aldington became a supporter of Vivienne Eliot in the troubled marriage, and the savage satirist on her husband, as "Jeremy Cibber" in Stepping Heavenward (Florence 1931). He was at this time living with Arabella Yorke (real given name Dorothy), a lover since Mecklenburgh Square

Mecklenburgh Square

Mecklenburgh Square is in Camden Town, central London, England with historic terraced houses. Facilities in the square include of garden, a children's playground, and a tennis court....
days. It was a lengthy and passionate relationship, coming to an end when he went abroad.

Later life

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

Nancy Cunard

Nancy Clara Cunard was a writer, heiress and political activist. She was born into the British upper class but strongly rejected her family's values, devoting much of her life to fighting racism and fascism....
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 response to the war, commended by Lawrence Durrell

Lawrence Durrell

Lawrence George Durrell was an expatriate British novelist, poet, dramatist, and travel writer, though he resisted affiliation with UK and preferred to be considered World citizen....
as 'the best war novel of the epoch'. It was written as a development of a manuscript from a decade before, as he lived on the island of Port Crau in Provence

Provence

Provence is a region of southeastern France on the Mediterranean adjacent to Italy. It is part of the administrative regions of France of Provence-Alpes-C?te d'Azur....
. The book opens with a letter to the playwright Halcott Glover, and takes a variable but satirical, cynical and critical posture, and belabours Victorian and Edwardian cant

Cant

Cant or canting may refer to:*Empty, hypocritical talk - See*Cant , a secret language**Thieves' cant**Shelta language or the Cant, a language used by the Irish Travellers...
. He went on to publish several works of fiction.

In 1930 he published a bawdy translation of The Decameron
The Decameron

The Decameron is a collection of 100 novellas by Italy author Giovanni Boccaccio, probably begun in 1350 and finished in 1353. It is a Medieval allegory work best known for its bawdy tales of love, appearing in all its possibilities from the erotic to the tragic....
. In 1942, having moved to the United States

United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
with his new wife Netta Patmore, he began to write biographies. The first was one of Wellington

Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington

Field Marshal Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, Order of the Garter, Order of St Patrick, Order of the Bath, Royal Guelphic Order, Privy Council of the United Kingdom, Royal Society , was an Anglo-Irish soldier and statesman, and one of the leading military and political figures of the nineteenth century....
(The Duke: Being an Account of the Life & Achievements of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, 1943). It was followed by works on D. H. Lawrence

D. H. Lawrence

Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson , was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and Travel writing. Stevenson was greatly admired by many authors, including Jorge Luis Borges, Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling, Vladimir Nabokov, J....
(Portrait of a Rebel, 1957), and T. E. Lawrence

T. E. Lawrence

Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Edward Lawrence Order of the Bath, Distinguished Service Order , known professionally as T. E. Lawrence, was a British people soldier renowned especially for his liaison role during the Arab Revolt of 1916–18....
(Lawrence of Arabia: A Biographical Inquiry, 1955).

Aldington's biography of T. E. Lawrence caused a scandal on its publication, and an immediate backlash. It made many controversial assertions. He was the first to bring to public notice the fact of Lawrence's illegitimacy. He also asserted that Lawrence was homosexual. Lawrence lived a celibate life, and none of his close friends (of whom several were homosexual) had believed him to be gay. He attacked Lawrence as a liar and a charlatan, claims which have colored Lawrence's reputation ever since. Only later were confidential government files concerning Lawrence's career released, allowing the accuracy of Lawrence's own account to be gauged. Aldington's own reputation has never fully recovered from what came to be seen as a venomous attack upon Lawrence's reputation. Many believed that Aldington's suffering in the bloodbath of Europe during World War I caused him to resent Lawrence's reputation, gained in the Middle Eastern arena.

Aldington died in France

France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
on 27 July 1962, shortly after being honoured and feted in Moscow

Moscow

Moscow is the capital and the largest types of inhabited localities in Russia of the Russian Federation. It is also the largest European cities and metropolitan areas, with the Moscow metropolitan area ranking among the largest urban areas in the world....
on the occasion of his seventieth birthday. His politics had in fact moved far towards the right — opinions he shared with Lawrence Durrell, a close friend since the 1950s — but he had felt shut out by the British establishment after his T. E. Lawrence book. He lived in Provence

Provence

Provence is a region of southeastern France on the Mediterranean adjacent to Italy. It is part of the administrative regions of France of Provence-Alpes-C?te d'Azur....
, at Montpellier

Montpellier

Montpellier is a city in the south of France. It is the capital of the Languedoc-Roussillon Regions of France, as well as the H?rault Departments of France....
and Aix-en-Provence

Aix-en-Provence

Aix or Aix-en-Provence , to distinguish it from other cities built over hot springs, is a communes of France in southern France, some north of Marseille....
.

On 11 November 1985, Aldington was among 16 Great War poets commemorated on a slate stone unveiled in Westminster Abbey

Westminster Abbey

The Collegiate Church of St Peter at Westminster, which is almost always referred to popularly and informally as Westminster Abbey, is a large, mainly Gothic architecture Church , in Westminster, London, just to the west of the Palace of Westminster....
's Poet's Corner. The inscription on the stone was written by a fellow Great War poet, Wilfred Owen

Wilfred Owen

Wilfred Edward Salter Owen Military Cross was an England poet and soldier, regarded by many as one of the leading poets of the World War I. His shocking, realistic war poetry on the horrors of Trench warfare and Poison gas in World War I warfare was heavily influenced by his friend Siegfried Sassoon and sat in stark contrast to both the publ...
. It reads: "My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity."

A savage style and embitterment

Aldington could write with an acid pen. The Georgian poets

Georgian poets

The Georgian poets were, by the strictest definition, those whose works appeared in a series of five anthologies named Georgian Poetry, published by Harold Monro and edited by Edward Marsh....
, 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

Harold Monro

Harold Edward Monro was a British poet, the proprietor of the Poetry Bookshop in London which helped many famous poets bring their work before the public....
, whose Poetry Review had published him and given him reviewing work. On the other side of the balance sheet, he spent time supporting literary folk: the alcoholic Monro, and others such as F. S. Flint

F. S. Flint

Frank Stuart Flint was an England poet and translator who was a prominent member of the Imagist group.He is mostly known for his participation in the "School of Images" with Ezra Pound and T....
and Frederic Manning

Frederic Manning

Frederic Manning was an Australian poet and novelist.Born in Sydney, Manning was the son of local politician Knight William Patrick Manning....
who needed friendship.

Alec Waugh

Alec Waugh

Alexander Raban Waugh , was a British novelist, the elder brother of the better-known Evelyn Waugh. He was married to Virginia Sorenson, author of the Newbery Medal-winning Miracles on Maple Hill....
, who met him through Harold Monro, described him as embittered by the war, and offered Douglas Goldring

Douglas Goldring

Douglas Goldring was a United Kingdom writer and journalist.He was born in Greenwich, London, England. He was educated at Hurstpierpoint College, Magdalen College School and Felsted School and then attended Oxford University in 1906....
as comparison; but took it that he worked off his spleen in novels like The Colonel's Daughter (1931), rather than letting it poison his life. His novels in fact contained thinly-veiled, disconcerting (at least to the subjects) portraits of some of his friends (Eliot, D. H. Lawrence, Pound in particular), the friendship not always surviving. Lyndall Gordon

Lyndall Gordon

Lyndall Gordon is a South African academic, known for her Biography. She was born in Cape Town and was an undergraduate at the University of Cape Town, then a doctoral student at Columbia University....
characterises the sketch of Eliot in the memoirs Life for Life's Sake (1941) as 'snide'. As a young man he enjoyed being cutting about William Butler Yeats

William Butler Yeats

File:William Butler Yeat by George Charles Beresford.jpgWilliam Butler Yeats was an Irish people poet and dramatist and one of the foremost figures of 20th century in literature....
, but remained on good enough terms to visit him in later years at Rapallo

Rapallo

Rapallo is a commune in the province of Genoa, in Liguria, northern Italy. As of 2007 it counts approximately 34,000 inhabitants, it is part of the Tigullio Gulf and is located in between Portofino and Chiavari....
.

An obituary described him as an "angry young man", and an '"angry old man to the end".

Works

Images (1910 – 1915) (1915) as Images - Old and New (1916) (US)
The Poems of Anyte of Tegea (1916) translator
Images of Desire (Elkin Mathews, 1919)
Images of War (1919)
War and Love: Poems 1915-1918 (1919)
Greek Songs in the Manner of Anacreon (1919) translator
A Book of 'Characters' from Theophrastus, Joseph Hall, Sir Thomas Overbury, Nicolas Breton, John Earle
Hymen (Egoist Press, 1921) with H. D.
Medallions in Clay (1921)
The Good-Humoured Ladies: A Comedy by Carlo Goldoni
Carlo Goldoni

Carlo Osvaldo Goldoni was a celebrated Republic of Venice playwright and librettist, whom critics today rank among the European theatre's greatest authors....
(1922) translator, with Arthur Symons
Arthur Symons

Arthur William Symons , was a British poet, critic and magazine editor....
Exile and other poems (1923)
Literary Studies and Reviews (1924) essays
Sturly by Pierre Custot (1924) translator
The Mystery of the Nativity: Translated from the Liegeois of the XVth Century (Medici Society, 1924) translator
A Fool I' the Forest: A Phantasmagoria (1924) poem
Voltaire (1925)
French Studies and Reviews (1926)
The Love of Myrrhine and Konallis: and other prose poems (1926)
Cyrano De Bergerac, Voyages to the Moon and the Sun (1927)
D. H. Lawrence: An Indiscretion (1927)
Letters of Madame De Sevigné (1927) translator
Letters Of Voltaire And Frederick The Great (1927) translator
Candide and Other Romances by Voltaire (1928) translator with Norman Tealby
Collected Poems (1928)
Fifty Romance Lyric Poems (1928) translator
Rémy De Gourmont: Selections. (1928) translator
Death of a Hero: A Novel (1929)
The Eaten Heart (Hours Press, 1929) poems
A Dream in the Luxembourg: A Poem (1930)
The Memoirs and Correspondence of Mme. D'Epinay (1930) translator
Euripedes' Alcestis (1930) translator
At All Costs (1930)
D. H. Lawrence: A Brief and Inevitably Fragmentary Impression (1930)
Last Straws (1930)
Medallions from Anyte of Tegea, Meleager of Gadara, the Anacreontea, Latin Poets of the Renaissance (1930) translator
The Memoirs of Marmontel (1930) editor, with Brigit Patmore
Roads to Glory (1930) stories
Tales from the Decameron (1930) translator
Two Stories (Elkin Mathews, 1930)
Letters to the Amazon by Rémy de Gourmont
Remy de Gourmont

Remy de Gourmont was a French language Symbolism poet, novelist, and influential literary criticism. He was widely read in his era, and an important influence on Blaise Cendrars....
(1931) translator
Balls and Another Book for Suppression (1931)
The Colonel's Daughter: A Novel (1931)
Stepping Heavenward: A Record (1931) satire aimed at T. S. Eliot
T. S. Eliot

'Thomas Stearns Eliot', Order of Merit , was a poet, dramatist, and literary critic. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948. Among his most famous writings are the poems The Love Song of J....
Aurelia by Gérard de Nerval
Gérard de Nerval

G?rard de Nerval was the nom-de-plume of the France poet, essayist and translator G?rard Labrunie, one of the most essentially Romanticism French poets....
(1932) translator
Soft Answers (1932) five short novels
All Men Are Enemies: A Romance (1933)
Last Poems of D. H. Lawrence (1933) edited with Giuseppe Orioli
Poems of Richard Aldington (1934)
Women Must Work: A Novel (1934)
Artifex: Sketches And Ideas (1935) essays
D. H. Lawrence (1935)
The Spirit of Place (1935), editor, D. H. Lawrence prose anthology
Life Quest (1935) poem
Life of a Lady: A Play in Three Acts (1936) with Derek Patmore
Derek Patmore

Derek Patmore was a British writer. He was the great grandson of the poet Coventry Patmore....
The Crystal World (1937)
Very Heaven (1937)
Seven Against Reeves: A Comedy-Farce (1938) novel
Rejected Guest (1939) novel
W. Somerset Maugham; An Appreciation (1939)
Life for Life's Sake: Memories Of A Vanished England & A Changing World, By One Who Was Bohemian, Poet, Soldier, Novelist & Wanderer (1941) memoir
Poetry of the English-Speaking World (1941) anthology, editor
A Wreath For San Gemignano (1945) sonnets of Folgore da San Gemignano
A Life of Wellington: The Duke (1946)
Great French Romances (1946) novels by Madame De Lafayette, Choderlos De Laclos, the Abbe Prévost, Honoré de Balzac
Oscar Wilde Selected Works (1946) editor
The Romance of Casanova: A Novel (1946)
Complete Poems (1948)
Four English Portraits 1801-1851 (1948)
Selected Works of Walter Pater (1948)
Jane Austen (1948)
Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio (two volumes) (1949) translator
The Strange Life of Charles Waterton 1782-1865 (1949)
A Bibliography of the Works of Richard Aldington from 1915 to 1948 (1950) with Alister Kershaw
Selected Letters of D. H. Lawrence (1950) editor
An Appreciation: D. H. Lawrence 1885 – 1930 (1950) also as D. H. Lawrence Portrait of a Genius But...
The Religion of Beauty: Selections From The Aesthetes (1950) anthology, editor
Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot, A Lecture (Peacocks Press, 1954)
Lawrence L'Imposteur: T.E. Lawrence, The Legend and the Man (1954) Paris edition, later title Lawrence of Arabia, A Biographical Enquiry (1955)
Pinorman: Personal Recollections of Norman Douglas, Pino Orioli & Charles Prentice (1954)
A. E. Housman & W. B. Yeats: Two Lectures (Hurst Press, 1955)
Introduction to Mistral (1956)
Frauds (1957)
Portrait of a Rebel: The Life and Work of Robert Louis Stevenson (1957)
The Viking Book of Poetry of the English-Speaking World Volume II (1958) editor
Larousse Encyclopedia of Mythology (1960) translator with Delano Ames
Switzerland (1960)
Famous Cities of the World: Rome (1960)
A Tourist's Rome
Richard Aldington: Selected Critical Writing, 1928-1960 (1970) edited by Alister Kershaw
A Passionate Prodigality: Letters to Alan Bird from Richard Aldington, 1949-1962 (1975) edited by Miriam J. Benkovitz
Literary Lifelines: The Richard Aldington and Lawrence Durrell Correspondence (1981)
In Winter: A Poem (Typographeum Press, 1987)
Austria
France
Italy

Sources

Richard Aldington: An Englishman (1931) Thomas McGreevy
Thomas McGreevy

Thomas McGreevy was a Canada politician and contractor.Born in Quebec, he was the son of Robert McGreevy, a blacksmith, and Rose Smith. In 1867 he was elected Member of Parliament for Quebec West , and was re-elected in 1872, 1874, 1878, 1882, 1887 and 1891....
Richard Aldington by C. P. Snow
C. P. Snow

Charles Percy Snow, Baron Snow Order of the British Empire was an England physicist and novelist, who also served several important positions in the Government of the United Kingdom....
Richard Aldington. An Intimate Portrait (1965) by Alister Kershaw, and Frederic-Jacques Temple
Richard Aldington 1892-1962: A Catalogue of The Frank G. Harrington Collection of Richard Aldington and Hilda H.D. Doolittle (1973)
The Poetry of Richard Aldington (1974) Norman T. Gates
A Checklist of the Letters of Richard Aldington (1977) edited by Norman T. Gates
Richard Aldington, Papers from the Reading Conference. (1987) edited by Lionel Kelly
Richard Aldington, a biography (1989) Charles Doyle ISBN 0-8093-1566-1
Richard Aldington: Reappraisals (1990) edited by Charles Doyle
Richard Aldington: An Autobiography in Letters (1992) edited by Norman T. Gates

The Religion of Beauty

The Religion of Beauty (subtitle Selections From the Aesthetes) was a prose and poetry anthology

Anthology

An anthology, literally a "garland" or "collection of flowers", is a collection of literary works, originally of poems. In genre fiction and especially science fiction, anthology is used to categorize collections of shorter works such as short story and short novels, usually collected into a single volume for publication....
edited by Aldington and published in 1950. Listed below are the authors Aldington included, providing insight into Aldingtons generation and tastes:

Prose

Aubrey Beardsley

Aubrey Vincent Beardsley was an English illustration and author....
- Max Beerbohm

Max Beerbohm

Sir Henry Maximilian Beerbohm was an English Parody and Caricature....
- Vernon Lee

Vernon Lee

Vernon Lee was the pseudonym of the British writer Violet Paget . She is now known mostly for her supernatural fiction; she wrote also essays and poetry; she contributed to The Yellow Book....
- Edward MacCurdy - Fiona MacLeod - George Meredith

George Meredith

| name= George Meredith| image = George Meredith.1893.jpg| imagesize = 200px| caption = George Meredith in 1893 by George Frederic Watts....
- Alice Meynell

Alice Meynell

Alice Christiana Gertrude Thompson Meynell was an England writer, editing, critic, and suffragist, now remembered mainly as a poet.She was born in Barnes, London, London, to Thomas James and Christiana Thompson....
- George Moore

George Moore

George Moore may refer to:*George Edward Moore , G.E. Moore, British philosopher*George Moore , landowner and High Sheriff of Derbyshire*George Moore ...
- William Morris

William Morris

William Morris was an English architect, furniture and textile designer, artist, writer, and Socialism associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and the English Arts and Crafts Movement....
- Frederick W. H. Myers - Walter Pater

Walter Pater

Walter Horatio Pater was an England essayist and critic of art criticism and literary criticism....
- Robert Ross

Robert Baldwin Ross

Robert Baldwin "Robbie" Ross was a Canadian journalist and art critic. He is best known, however, as the executor of the estate of Oscar Wilde, with whom he had been lifelong friends....
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Dante Gabriel Rossetti was an English poet, illustrator, Painting and translator....
- John Ruskin

John Ruskin

John Ruskin was a British art critic and social thought, also remembered as an author, poet and artist. His essays on art and architecture were extremely influential in the Victorian era and Edwardian period eras....
- John Addington Symonds

John Addington Symonds

John Addington Symonds was an English poet and literary critic. He was an early advocate of the validity of homosexuality which included for him pederasty as well as gay relationships, and which he would refer to as l'amour de l'impossible....
- Arthur Symons

Arthur Symons

Arthur William Symons , was a British poet, critic and magazine editor....
- Rachel Annand Taylor

Rachel Annand Taylor

Rachel Annand Taylor was a Scottish people poet.Today little known, she was admired by Richard Aldington and D. H. Lawrence.She was included in Nicholson & Lee, eds....
- James McNeill Whistler

James McNeill Whistler

'James Abbott McNeill Whistler' was an United States-born, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland-based artist. Averse to sentimentality and moral in painting, he was a leading proponent of the credo "art for art's sake"....

Poetry

William Allingham

William Allingham was an Ireland man of letters and poet.He was born in Ballyshannon, County Donegal, and was the son of the manager of a local bank who was of English descent....
- Henry C. Beeching - Oliver Madox Brown - Olive Custance

Olive Custance

Olive Eleanor Custance was a United Kingdom poet. She was part of the aesthetic movement of the 1890s, and a contributor to The Yellow Book....
- John Davidson

John Davidson (poet)

John Davidson was a Scotland poet and playwright, best known for his ballads.He was born at Barrhead, East Renfrewshire as the son of a Dissenting minister and entered the chemical department of a sugar refinery in Greenock in his 13th year, returning after one year to school as a pupil teacher....
- Austin Dobson

Austin Dobson

Austin Dobson was an auto driver from England.Brother of auto racer Arthur Charles Dobson, he participated at first edition, in 1936 Hungarian Grand Prix, of the Hungarian Grand Prix with Alfa Romeo....
- Lord Alfred Douglas

Lord Alfred Douglas

Lord Alfred Bruce Douglas was an England author, poet and translator, better known as the intimate friend and lover of the writer Oscar Wilde. Much of his early poetry was Uranian in theme, though he tended, later in life, to distance himself from both Wilde's influence and his own role as a Uranian poetry....
- Evelyn Douglas - Edward Dowden

Edward Dowden

Edward Dowden , was an Ireland critic and poet.He was the son of John Wheeler Dowden, a merchant and landowner, and was born at Cork , three years after his brother John Dowden, who became Bishop of Edinburgh in 1886....
- Ernest Dowson

Ernest Dowson

Ernest Christopher Dowson , born in Lee, London, was an English people poet, novelist and writer of short stories associated with the Decadent movement....
- Michael Field - Norman Gale

Norman Gale

Norman Rowland Gale was a poet, story-teller and reviewer, who published many books over a period of nearly fifty years.His best-known poem is probably The Country Faith, which is in the Oxford Book of English Verse....
- Edmund Gosse

Edmund Gosse

Sir Edmund William Gosse Order of the Bath was an English poet, author and critic, the son of Philip Henry Gosse and Emily Bowes....
- John Gray

John Gray

John Gray may refer to:...
- William Ernest Henley

William Ernest Henley

William Ernest Henley was an England poet, critic and Editing....
- Gerard Manley Hopkins

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Gerard Manley Hopkins , was an England poet, Roman Catholicism convert, and Society of Jesus priest, whose 20th-century fame established him posthumously among the leading Victorian poets....
- Herbert P. Horne - Lionel Johnson

Lionel Johnson

Lionel Pigot Johnson was an English poet, essayist and critic. He was born at Broadstairs, and educated at Winchester College and New College, Oxford, graduating in 1890....
- Andrew Lang

Andrew Lang

Andrew Lang was a prolific Scotland man of letters. He was a poet, novelist, and literary critic, and contributor to anthropology. He now is best known as the folkloristics of folklore and fairy tales....
- Eugene Lee-Hamilton

Eugene Lee-Hamilton

Eugene Lee-Hamilton was a late Victorian era England poet. His work includes some notable sonnets in the style of Petrarch. He endowed a literary prize administered by Oriel College, Oxford in Oxford University, where he was a student....
- Maurice Hewlett

Maurice Hewlett

Maurice Henry Hewlett , was an England historical novelist, poet and essayist. He was born at Weybridge, the eldest son of Henry Gay Hewlett, of Shaw Hall, Addington, Kent....
- Edward Cracroft Lefroy - Arran and Isla Leigh - Amy Levy

Amy Levy

Amy Levy was a United Kingdom poet and novelist....
- John William Mackail

John William Mackail

John William Mackail O.M. was a Scottish man of letters and socialist, now best remembered as a Virgil scholar. He was also a poet, literary historian and biographer....
- Digby Mackworth-Dolben - Fiona MacLeod - Frank T. Marzials - Théophile Julius Henry Marzials - George Meredith

George Meredith

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- Alice Meynell

Alice Meynell

George Moore

George Moore may refer to:*George Edward Moore , G.E. Moore, British philosopher*George Moore , landowner and High Sheriff of Derbyshire*George Moore ...
- William Morris

William Morris

Roden Noel

Roden Berkeley Wriothesley Noel, also known as No?l , was an England poet.The son of Charles Noel, Lord Barham, afterwards 1st Earl of Gainsborough, he was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he obtained his M.A....
- John Payne

John Payne (poet)

John Payne was an England poet and Translation, from Devon. Initially he pursued a Lawyer, and associated with Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Later he became involved with Limited edition books publishing, and the Fran?ois Villon Society....
- Victor Plarr

Victor Plarr

Victor Gustave Plarr was an England poet; he is probably best known for the poem Epitaphium Citharistriae.He was born near Strasbourg, France, of a French father from Alsace, and an English mother....
- A. Mary F. Robinson - William Caldwell Roscoe - Christina Rossetti

Christina Rossetti

Christina Georgina Rossetti was an English poet, who wrote a variety of romantic, devotional, and children's poems. She is best known for her long poem Goblin Market, her love poem "Remember", and for her Christmas poem "In the Bleak Midwinter"....
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Dante Gabriel Rossetti was an English poet, illustrator, Painting and translator....
- Algernon Charles Swinburne

Algernon Charles Swinburne

Algernon Charles Swinburne was an English poet, controversial in his own day....
- John Addington Symonds

John Addington Symonds

Arthur Symons

Arthur William Symons , was a British poet, critic and magazine editor....
- Rachel Annand Taylor

Rachel Annand Taylor

Rachel Annand Taylor was a Scottish people poet.Today little known, she was admired by Richard Aldington and D. H. Lawrence.She was included in Nicholson & Lee, eds....
- Francis Thompson

Francis Thompson

Francis Thompson was an England poet and ascetic. After attending college, he moved to London to become a writer, but in menial work, became addicted to opium, and was a street vagrant for years....
- John Todhunter

John Todhunter

John Todhunter was an Irish poet and playwright who wrote seven volumes of poetry, and several plays....
- Herbert Trench

Herbert Trench

Frederic Herbert Trench was an Irish poet.He was born in Avonmore, County Cork, and educated at Haileybury and Imperial Service College and Keble College, Oxford....
- John Leicester Warren, Lord de Tabley - Rosamund Marriott Watson

Rosamund Marriott Watson

Rosamund Marriott Watson was a Victorian literature and critic who wrote under the pseudonym of Graham R. Tomson. Her poems, which presaged modernism, are informed by aestheticism and occasionally avant-garde sensibilities....
- Theodore Watts-Dunton

Theodore Watts-Dunton

Theodore Watts-Dunton was an English critic and poet. He is now best remembered as the friend and minder of Algernon Charles Swinburne, whom he rescued from alcoholism....
- Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish people playwright, Irish poetry and author of numerous short stories and one novel. Known for his biting wit, he became one of the most successful playwrights of the late Victorian era in London, and one of the greatest Celebrity of his day....
- Margaret L. Woods - Theodore Wratislaw - W. B. Yeats

External links

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