Richard Aldington (1892–1962)
Auteur de The Viking Book of Poetry of the English-Speaking World
A propos de l'auteur
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 afficher plus 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) afficher moins
Œuvres de Richard Aldington
The Viking Book of Poetry of the English-Speaking World (1941) — Directeur de publication — 223 exemplaires
The Viking Book of Poetry of the English-Speaking World-Volume I (1941) — Directeur de publication — 93 exemplaires
The Viking Book of Poetry of the English-Speaking World Volume 2 (1941) — Directeur de publication — 77 exemplaires
The Religion of Beauty: Selections from the Aesthetes (1950) — Directeur de publication — 11 exemplaires
Pinorman; personal recollections of Norman Douglas, Pino Orioli and Charles Prentice (1954) 6 exemplaires
Medallions from Anyte of Tegea, Meleager of Gadara, The Anacreontea, Latin Poets of the Renaissance 5 exemplaires
Imagist anthology, 1930 : poems by Richard Aldington, John Cournos, H.D., John Gould Fletcher, F.S. Flint, Ford Madox… — Contributeur — 4 exemplaires
At All Costs 4 exemplaires
A Book of 'Characters' from Theophrastus, Joseph Hall, Sir Thomas Overbury, Nicolas Breton, John Earle, Thomas Fuller, (1924) — Directeur de publication — 4 exemplaires
An Appreciation D H Lawrence 1885-1930 4 exemplaires
Two Stories 4 exemplaires
A Passionate Prodigality : Letters to Alan Bird from Richard Aldington, 1949-1962 (1975) 3 exemplaires
The Eaten Heart 3 exemplaires
Some Imagist Poets [1915] — Directeur de publication — 3 exemplaires
A tourist's Rome 3 exemplaires
The Poetry of Richard Aldington: A Critical Evaluation and an Anthology of Uncollected Poems (1990) 2 exemplaires
Jane Austen 2 exemplaires
Collected poems, 1915-1923 2 exemplaires
Life Quest 2 exemplaires
Introduction to Mistral 2 exemplaires
The Berkshire Kennet 2 exemplaires
Balls; & Another Book for Suppression, 2 exemplaires
Images of War 2 exemplaires
She is All So Slight — Auteur — 1 exemplaire
Remy de Gourmont (Volume I) 1 exemplaire
Remy de Gourmont (Volume II) 1 exemplaire
The Crystal World 1 exemplaire
Italy: L'Italie, Italien 1 exemplaire
Images Old and New 1 exemplaire
A fool i' the forest; a phantasmagoria 1 exemplaire
The Mystery of the Nativity. Translated from the Liégois of the XVth century and with a foreword by Richard Aldington (1924) 1 exemplaire
Sacrifice Post (English Modern Short Stories) 1 exemplaire
Short stories 1 exemplaire
D H Lawrence: A complete list of his works, together with a critical appreciation by Richard Aldington 1 exemplaire
A.E. Housman & W.B. Yeats; two lectures 1 exemplaire
Прощайте, воспоминания 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
Les Etats et Empires de la Lune ; Les Etats et Empires du Soleil : Suivi du Fragment de physique (1657) — Traducteur, quelques éditions — 291 exemplaires
The Woman Who Rode Away and Other Stories (1950) — Introduction, quelques éditions — 203 exemplaires
Sévigné. Lettres. Tome 1/3 : 1644-1675, Tome 2/3 : 1676-1684, Tome 3/3 : 1684, suite - 1696 (La Pléiade) (1953) — Traducteur, quelques éditions — 177 exemplaires
Apocalypse and the Writings on Revelation (1980) — Directeur de publication, quelques éditions — 140 exemplaires
Tales from the Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio (1930) — Traducteur, quelques éditions — 51 exemplaires
Briefwisseling met Frederik de Grote 1736-1778 (1927) — Traducteur, quelques éditions — 37 exemplaires
Six Poets of the Great War: Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, Isaac Rosenberg, Richard Aldington, Edmund Blunden, Edward… (1995) 20 exemplaires
Recueil des lettres de Madame la Marquise de Sévigné, a Madame la Comtesse de Grignan, sa fille. : Nouvelle edition… (1927) — Directeur de publication, quelques éditions — 14 exemplaires
Some Imagist Poets, 1917: An Annual Anthology — Contributeur — 2 exemplaires
The Last Poems of D. H. Lawrence: 2 (1933) — Directeur de publication, quelques éditions — 2 exemplaires
A Bibliography of the Works of Richard Aldington from 1915 to 1948 — Introduction — 1 exemplaire
Sturly ... Translated ... by Richard Aldington. [A tale.] — Traducteur, quelques éditions — 1 exemplaire
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom légal
- Aldington, Edward Godfree
- Date de naissance
- 1892-07-08
- Date de décès
- 1962-07-27
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- Royaume-Uni
- Lieu de naissance
- Portsmouth, Hampshire, Angleterre, Royaume-Uni
- Lieu du décès
- Sury-en-Vaux, Cher, France
- Cause du décès
- Naturelle (Crise cardiaque)
- Lieux de résidence
- London, England, UK
Padworth, Berkshire, England, UK
Dover, Kent, England, UK
Paris, France
Sury-en-Vaux, Cher, France
Aix-en-Provence, France (tout afficher 8)
Hollywood, California, USA
Florida, USA - Études
- Dover College
University College London - Professions
- poet
novelist
translator
editor
biographer
journalist (tout afficher 7)
critic - Relations
- Aldington, A. E. (father)
H. D. (wife)
Aldington, Netta (wife)
Patmore, Brigit (partner)
Rathbone, Irene (lover)
Aldington, May (mother) - Organisations
- The Imagists
The Egoist (literary editor)
British Army, Royal Sussex Regiment - Agent
- Rosica Colin
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Critiques
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War Literature (1)
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