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Richard Aldington was an English writer and poet born on the 8th of July 1892 in Portsmouth. He was an early member of the Imagist movement, produced 143 separate titles over a fifty-year career, and is best known for his semi-autobiographical war novel Death of a Hero (1929) and his controversial biography of T. E. Lawrence (1955).
Aldington was one of the founding figures of Imagism, a movement Ezra Pound named in 1912 when he coined the term imagistes for Aldington and H.D. Aldington's poetry forms almost one third of the Imagists' inaugural anthology Des Imagistes, published in 1914.
Aldington joined up in June 1916, trained at Wareham in Dorset, and was sent to the Western Front in December 1916. He served in the 11th Leicestershires and was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Royal Sussex Regiment, finishing the war as a temporary captain before being demobilised in February 1919. Exposure to gas on the front affected his health for the rest of his life.
Death of a Hero, published in September 1929, is a semi-autobiographical novel Aldington called a "jazz novel." It condemns Victorian materialism as a cause of the First World War and follows a character loosely based on Aldington himself. By Christmas 1929 it had sold more than 10,000 copies in England alone and was quickly translated into German and other European languages.
Aldington's 1955 biography was the first to publicly assert that Lawrence was illegitimate and homosexual, and it described him as a liar, a charlatan, and an "impudent mythomaniac." Critics including Robert Graves attacked the book as the product of personal bitterness, while others, including Christopher Sykes in his 1969 introduction to the Collins edition, concluded it had faced the awkward questions about Lawrence squarely.
Aldington's biography Wellington, published in 1946, won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. He had first published the work in 1943 under the longer title The Duke: Being an Account of the Life and Achievements of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington.
Aldington is buried in the cemetery at Sury-en-Vaux, Cher, France, where he lived from 1958 until his death. On the 11th of November 1985 he was among sixteen Great War poets commemorated in stone at Westminster Abbey's Poet's Corner, with an inscription taken from Wilfred Owen's "Preface" to his poems.