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 1 Collection or Record:
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.
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