Richard Aldington (1892–1962)
Autore di The Viking Book of Poetry of the English-Speaking World
Sull'Autore
Richard Aldington, christened Edward Godfree, was born at Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, on July 8, 1892. Aldington attended preparatory schools as a child, after which he studied for four years at Dover College. He then enrolled in University College but did not complete his education there due mostra altro to a sudden financial loss suffered by his father, forcing him to withdraw. For a while, Aldington was supporting himself as an assistant to a newspaper sportswriter. He also wrote reviews and essays, worked on translations, and finally began selling his own poems. He soon made friends with a group of three other young poets: Ezra Pound, Hilda Doolittle, and Harold Monro. During this period, Aldington became associated with the Imagist movement, through his association with Ezra Pound. His poetry appeared in Pound's 1914 anthology Des Imagistes and in Amy Lowell's annual anthology Some Imagist Poets. He published his first volume of poetry, Images (1910-1915), in 1915. On June 24, 1916, Aldington left for military service. He was sent to France in the winter after training. The two and a half years that Aldington spent in active duty during WWI was to become perhaps the greatest single influence on his writing for the decades to follow. His most immediate literary response to the war was his collection of poetry Images of War, published in 1919, which was followed by his first, and perhaps most well known novel, Death of a Hero. Aldington published 24 books, as editor or translator, or collections of his poems, between 1920 and 1929, including the first book of his about his friend D.H. Lawrence, D.H. Lawrence, An Indiscretion. Over the following ten years, he published several more collections of short stories, three long poems, four editions of his collected poems, miscellaneous literary journalism and wrote seven novels. In 1939, Viking offered him editorship of The Viking Book of Poetry of the English Speaking World after having published his novel Rejected Guest. Aldington sold serial rights to his memoirs to the Atlantic Monthly which were published in 1941 under the title Life for Life's Sake. After moving to Florida, Aldington began his biography of the Duke of Wellington, which was published in 1943. In 1942, Aldington took his family to Hollywood where he hoped to work as a screen writer. They stayed in Hollywood for over three years while Aldington worked as a freelance writer for the studios. He also finished The Duke, which he began in Florida, edited the Portable Oscar Wilde, and did a few translations. He published his last novel, The Romance of Casanova: A Novel, in 1946. Aldington died in France in 1962. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
Opere di Richard Aldington
Medallions from Anyte of Tegea, Meleager of Gadara, The Anacreontea, Latin Poets of the Renaissance 5 copie
Imagist anthology, 1930 : poems by Richard Aldington, John Cournos, H.D., John Gould Fletcher, F.S. Flint, Ford Madox… — Collaboratore — 4 copie
At All Costs 4 copie
A Book of 'Characters' from Theophrastus, Joseph Hall, Sir Thomas Overbury, Nicolas Breton, John Earle, Thomas Fuller, (1924) — A cura di — 4 copie
Two Stories 4 copie
The Eaten Heart 3 copie
Some Imagist Poets [1915] — A cura di — 3 copie
A tourist's Rome 3 copie
The Poetry of Richard Aldington: A Critical Evaluation and an Anthology of Uncollected Poems (1990) 2 copie
Jane Austen 2 copie
Collected poems, 1915-1923 2 copie
Life Quest 2 copie
Introduction to Mistral 2 copie
The Berkshire Kennet 2 copie
Images of War 2 copie
She is All So Slight — Autore — 1 copia
Remy de Gourmont (Volume I) 1 copia
Remy de Gourmont (Volume II) 1 copia
The Crystal World 1 copia
Italy: L'Italie, Italien 1 copia
Images Old and New 1 copia
The Mystery of the Nativity. Translated from the Liégois of the XVth century and with a foreword by Richard Aldington (1924) 1 copia
Short stories 1 copia
Прощайте, воспоминания 1 copia
Opere correlate
Per ogni mese Folgòre da San Gimignano cantò la gioia (1945) — Traduttore, alcune edizioni — 27 copie
Six Poets of the Great War: Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, Isaac Rosenberg, Richard Aldington, Edmund Blunden, Edward… (1995) 20 copie
Letters from the Marchioness de Sévigné to her daughter the Countess de Grignan (1927) — A cura di, alcune edizioni — 14 copie
Some Imagist Poets, 1917: An Annual Anthology — Collaboratore — 2 copie
A Bibliography of the Works of Richard Aldington from 1915 to 1948 — Introduzione — 1 copia
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Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Aldington, Edward Godfree
- Data di nascita
- 1892-07-08
- Data di morte
- 1962-07-27
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- UK
- Luogo di nascita
- Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, UK
- Luogo di morte
- Sury-en-Vaux, Cher, France
- Causa della morte
- heart attack
- Luogo di residenza
- London, England, UK
Padworth, Berkshire, England, UK
Dover, Kent, England, UK
Paris, France
Sury-en-Vaux, Cher, France
Aix-en-Provence, France (mostra tutto 8)
Hollywood, California, USA
Florida, USA - Istruzione
- Dover College
University College London - Attività lavorative
- poet
novelist
translator
editor
biographer
journalist (mostra tutto 7)
critic - Relazioni
- Aldington, A. E. (father)
H. D. (wife)
Aldington, Netta (wife)
Patmore, Brigit (partner)
Rathbone, Irene (lover)
Aldington, May (mother) - Organizzazioni
- The Imagists
The Egoist (literary editor)
British Army, Royal Sussex Regiment - Agente
- Rosica Colin
Utenti
Recensioni
Liste
THE WAR ROOM (1)
War Literature (1)
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- Opere
- 93
- Opere correlate
- 69
- Utenti
- 1,250
- Popolarità
- #20,521
- Voto
- 3.8
- Recensioni
- 17
- ISBN
- 86
- Lingue
- 9
- Preferito da
- 2