Aldington, Richard (Edward Godfree), 1892-1962

Person

Staff Only

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 2 Collections and/or Records:

Bifur archive, 1929-1931

Collection

Identifier: 1979-011

Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1929 - 1931

Found in: The University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections & University Archives

J. Howard Woolmer collecton of Poetry Bookshop research and bibliographic materials, 1913-1988

Collection

Identifier: 1988-007

Scope and Contents J. Howard Woolmer collecton of Poetry Bookshop research materials consists largely of Woolmer's research materials and pre-publication drafts of the bibliography but includes PBS manuscripts and ephemeral printing. The collection is organized into two series: Series 1: Correspondence: Joy Grant: letters from British writers and collegues of Harold Monro in reply to Grant as she wrote Harold Monro and the Poetry Bookshop (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1967) including correspondents...

Dates: 1913 - 1988