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.

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