When and where was Richard Aldington born?
Edward Godfree Aldington arrived in the world on the 8th of July 1892 within the port city of Portsmouth. He was the eldest of four children born to Albert Edward Aldington and Jessie May Godfree.
Questions about Richard Aldington
Short answers, pulled from the story.
What role did Richard Aldington play in the Imagist movement?
Aldington's poetry formed almost one third of the Imagists' inaugural anthology Des Imagistes published in 1914. Ezra Pound coined the term imagistes for H.D. and Aldington that same year.
How did World War I affect Richard Aldington's life and writing?
His encounters with gas on the front would affect him for the rest of his life and he likely never fully recovered from the trauma of World War I. His field experiences appeared in collections Images of War and Images of Desire published in 1919 which were suffused with a new melancholy.
Why is Death of a Hero by Richard Aldington significant?
Death of a Hero published in September 1929 was Aldington's semi-autobiographical response to the war. The novel condemned Victorian materialism as a cause of the tragedy and waste of the war.
What controversy surrounded Richard Aldington's biography of T.E. Lawrence?
Aldington's excoriating biography of T. E. Lawrence caused a scandal upon its publication in 1955. He was the first to bring public notice to Lawrence's illegitimacy and asserted that he was a homosexual, a liar, a charlatan, and an impudent mythomaniac.
When and where did Richard Aldington die?
Aldington died of a heart attack in Sury-en-Vaux on the 27th of July 1962 shortly after being honoured in Moscow on the occasion of his 70th birthday.