Aldington, Richard (Edward Godfree), 1892-1962
Person
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:
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
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- Subject: Special Collections -- Manuscripts -- Poetry Bookshop. X