Richard Aldington (1892–1962)
Auteur van The Viking Book of Poetry of the English-Speaking World
Over de Auteur
Richard Aldington, christened Edward Godfree, was born at Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, on July 8, 1892. Aldington attended preparatory schools as a child, after which he studied for four years at Dover College. He then enrolled in University College but did not complete his education there due toon meer to a sudden financial loss suffered by his father, forcing him to withdraw. For a while, Aldington was supporting himself as an assistant to a newspaper sportswriter. He also wrote reviews and essays, worked on translations, and finally began selling his own poems. He soon made friends with a group of three other young poets: Ezra Pound, Hilda Doolittle, and Harold Monro. During this period, Aldington became associated with the Imagist movement, through his association with Ezra Pound. His poetry appeared in Pound's 1914 anthology Des Imagistes and in Amy Lowell's annual anthology Some Imagist Poets. He published his first volume of poetry, Images (1910-1915), in 1915. On June 24, 1916, Aldington left for military service. He was sent to France in the winter after training. The two and a half years that Aldington spent in active duty during WWI was to become perhaps the greatest single influence on his writing for the decades to follow. His most immediate literary response to the war was his collection of poetry Images of War, published in 1919, which was followed by his first, and perhaps most well known novel, Death of a Hero. Aldington published 24 books, as editor or translator, or collections of his poems, between 1920 and 1929, including the first book of his about his friend D.H. Lawrence, D.H. Lawrence, An Indiscretion. Over the following ten years, he published several more collections of short stories, three long poems, four editions of his collected poems, miscellaneous literary journalism and wrote seven novels. In 1939, Viking offered him editorship of The Viking Book of Poetry of the English Speaking World after having published his novel Rejected Guest. Aldington sold serial rights to his memoirs to the Atlantic Monthly which were published in 1941 under the title Life for Life's Sake. After moving to Florida, Aldington began his biography of the Duke of Wellington, which was published in 1943. In 1942, Aldington took his family to Hollywood where he hoped to work as a screen writer. They stayed in Hollywood for over three years while Aldington worked as a freelance writer for the studios. He also finished The Duke, which he began in Florida, edited the Portable Oscar Wilde, and did a few translations. He published his last novel, The Romance of Casanova: A Novel, in 1946. Aldington died in France in 1962. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder
Werken van Richard Aldington
Pinorman; personal recollections of Norman Douglas, Pino Orioli and Charles Prentice (1954) 6 exemplaren
Medallions from Anyte of Tegea, Meleager of Gadara, The Anacreontea, Latin Poets of the Renaissance 5 exemplaren
Imagist anthology, 1930 : poems by Richard Aldington, John Cournos, H.D., John Gould Fletcher, F.S. Flint, Ford Madox… — Medewerker — 4 exemplaren
At All Costs 4 exemplaren
A Book of 'Characters' from Theophrastus, Joseph Hall, Sir Thomas Overbury, Nicolas Breton, John Earle, Thomas Fuller, (1924) — Redacteur — 4 exemplaren
An Appreciation D H Lawrence 1885-1930 4 exemplaren
Two Stories 4 exemplaren
A Passionate Prodigality : Letters to Alan Bird from Richard Aldington, 1949-1962 (1975) 3 exemplaren
The Eaten Heart 3 exemplaren
Some Imagist Poets [1915] — Redacteur — 3 exemplaren
A tourist's Rome 3 exemplaren
The Poetry of Richard Aldington: A Critical Evaluation and an Anthology of Uncollected Poems (1990) 2 exemplaren
Jane Austen 2 exemplaren
Collected poems, 1915-1923 2 exemplaren
Life Quest 2 exemplaren
Introduction to Mistral 2 exemplaren
The Berkshire Kennet 2 exemplaren
Balls; & Another Book for Suppression, 2 exemplaren
Images of War 2 exemplaren
She is All So Slight — Auteur — 1 exemplaar
Remy de Gourmont (Volume I) 1 exemplaar
Remy de Gourmont (Volume II) 1 exemplaar
The Crystal World 1 exemplaar
Italy: L'Italie, Italien 1 exemplaar
Images Old and New 1 exemplaar
A fool i' the forest; a phantasmagoria 1 exemplaar
The Mystery of the Nativity. Translated from the Liégois of the XVth century and with a foreword by Richard Aldington (1924) 1 exemplaar
Sacrifice Post (English Modern Short Stories) 1 exemplaar
Short stories 1 exemplaar
D H Lawrence: A complete list of his works, together with a critical appreciation by Richard Aldington 1 exemplaar
A.E. Housman & W.B. Yeats; two lectures 1 exemplaar
Прощайте, воспоминания 1 exemplaar
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Six Poets of the Great War: Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, Isaac Rosenberg, Richard Aldington, Edmund Blunden, Edward… (1995) 20 exemplaren
Letters from the Marchioness de Sévigné to her daughter the Countess de Grignan (1927) — Redacteur, sommige edities — 14 exemplaren
De Duitse gevangene ; Passie in het aangezicht van de dood (1930) — Introductie, sommige edities — 7 exemplaren
Some Imagist Poets, 1917: An Annual Anthology — Medewerker — 2 exemplaren
A Bibliography of the Works of Richard Aldington from 1915 to 1948 — Introductie — 1 exemplaar
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- Aldington, Edward Godfree
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- 1892-07-08
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- 1962-07-27
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- Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, UK
- Plaats van overlijden
- Sury-en-Vaux, Cher, France
- Oorzaak van overlijden
- heart attack
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- London, England, UK
Padworth, Berkshire, England, UK
Dover, Kent, England, UK
Paris, France
Sury-en-Vaux, Cher, France
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- Aldington, A. E. (father)
H. D. (wife)
Aldington, Netta (wife)
Patmore, Brigit (partner)
Rathbone, Irene (lover)
Aldington, May (mother) - Organisaties
- The Imagists
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British Army, Royal Sussex Regiment - Agent
- Rosica Colin
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