Aldington, Richard (Edward Godfree), 1892-1962
Dates
- Existence: 1892-07-08 - 1962-07-27
Biography
English writer and poet, and an early associate of the Imagist movement. Married to the poet Hilda Doolittle (known as H.D.) from 1911 to 1938. Editor of The Egoist literary journal. Wrote for The Times Literary Supplement, Vogue, The Criterion, and Poetry. His 1946 biography of Wellington won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Friends and colleagues included T.S. Eliot, D.H. Lawrence, Ezra Pound, and W.B. Yeats. His experiences during WWI gave his poetry a sense of melancholy and bitterness that lasted the rest of his life.
Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:
Aldington, Richard, 1962
Obituary.
Bifur archive, 1929-1931
Archive of a Paris literary periodical published from 1929-1931 consists of correspondence from various individuals (including Aldington, Sherwood Anderson, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Eugene O'Neill, Jean Toomer, William Carlos Williams and Thornton Wilder) to Bifur's editor, Nino Frank. The correspondence is addressed to Frank unless otherwise noted and is arranged alphabetically by correspondent.
J. Howard Woolmer collecton of Poetry Bookshop research and bibliographic materials, 1913-1988
Letters: 1919
Includes a statement made by Joyce, 5 May 1919 and a document regarding Joyce v. Carr.
Letters: 1920
Typed commentary; photostats and photocopies; typed and carbon copy typed transcriptions.
Letters: 1927
Includes photocopies of the petitions and signatures regarding the US edition of Ulysses; photocopy of the typed poem, "On the Beach of Fontana"; photocopies of letters and documents regarding the case of Joyce v. Roth; photocopy of a Spanish article titled, "Ricordi su James Joyce".
Letters: 1929
Includes: photocopy of Robert Reade's poem, "To James Joyce"; photocopies of announcements of the publication of Ulysses; photocopy of an injuction regarding Joyce v. Roth.