This is the first biography of Richard Aldington, contemporary and friend of Ezra Pound, D.H.Lawrence and T.S. Eliot. Pound, Aldington and his wife, the American poet H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) founded the Imagist movement in 1912 and for some years he assisted Eliot on the "Criterion". In 1929 he published "Death of a Hero", which George Orwell later judged the best novel of the First World War. Notable as a poet, translator, editor, novelist and biographer, Aldington was a significant figure of the Modernist era and this ...
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This is the first biography of Richard Aldington, contemporary and friend of Ezra Pound, D.H.Lawrence and T.S. Eliot. Pound, Aldington and his wife, the American poet H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) founded the Imagist movement in 1912 and for some years he assisted Eliot on the "Criterion". In 1929 he published "Death of a Hero", which George Orwell later judged the best novel of the First World War. Notable as a poet, translator, editor, novelist and biographer, Aldington was a significant figure of the Modernist era and this study includes a critical appraisal of his major writings. Other works by Professor Doyle include "James K. Baxter", "William Carlos Williams: the Critical Heritage" (editor), "William Carlos Williams and the American Poem", and "Wallace Stevens: the Critical Heritage" (editor).
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