Cohn, Ruby. Back to Beckett. Princeton University Press.
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Richard Aldington
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Standard Name: Aldington, Richard
Used Form: R. A.
Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Reception | Samuel Beckett | The competition, for the best poem on Time, was judged by Nancy Cunard
and Richard Aldington
. Cunard
called the winner a long poem, mysterious, obscure in parts, centered around Descartes
. |
| Friends, Associates | Phyllis Bottome | Through her acquaintance with H. D., PB
later met Richard Aldington
. She describes H. D. as a mysterious girl, an introvert with a curious Victorian streak of docile femininity which had to battle with... |
| Literary responses | Bryher | In an Egoist review, Richard Aldington
praised Bryher for following the literary-literal principles recently established by the Poets' Translation Series, which he and H. D.
were running at the Egoist Press
, and which... |
| Occupation | Nancy Cunard | Her purpose in founding the press was to publish mainly contemporary poetry of an experimental kind. Virginia Woolf
warned her that Your hands will always be covered with ink, Ford, Hugh, editor. Nancy Cunard: Brave Poet, Indomitable Rebel 1896-1965. Chilton Book Company. 69 |
| Textual Production | Nancy Cunard | The book, published by NC
's Hours Press
, included poems by Richard Aldington
and Samuel Beckett
and had a photomontage cover designed by Man Ray
. Chisholm, Anne. Nancy Cunard. Knopf. 154 |
| Fictionalization | Nancy Cunard | NC
was cast as Iris March in Michael Arlen's The Green Hat, as Lucy Tantamount in Aldous Huxley
's Point Counter Point, as Baby Bucktrout in Wyndham Lewis
's The Roaring Queen... |
| Occupation | T. S. Eliot | TSE
became Assistant Editor of The Egoist (in succession nominally to Richard Aldington
, actually to Aldington's wife, H. D.
), a position he held until 1919. Parker, Peter, editor. A Reader’s Guide to Twentieth-Century Writers. Oxford University Press. 216 Marsden, Dora, and Harriet Shaw Weaver, editors. The Egoist. Robert Johnson. (June 1917): front page |
| Textual Production | T. S. Eliot | |
| Textual Production | H. D. | The major archive of HD's papers is held at Yale University
(along with several other deposits of material relevant to her). Eight other collections of some importance are listed by her biographer Barbara Guest
... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | H. D. | With Ezra Pound and her parents as witnesses, H. D.
and Richard Aldington
were married in London after returning from their European travels. Aldington, Richard, and H. D. “Introduction and Commentary”. Richard Aldington and H.D.: The Early Years in Letters, edited by Caroline Zilboorg, Indiana University Press, p. Various pages. 15 |
| Health | H. D. | H. D.
gave birth to her and Richard Aldington
's stillborn daughter. Aldington, Richard, and H. D. “Introduction and Commentary”. Richard Aldington and H.D.: The Early Years in Letters, edited by Caroline Zilboorg, Indiana University Press, p. Various pages. 20 |
| Friends, Associates | H. D. | H. D.
and her husband, Richard Aldington
, were introduced to D. H.
and Frieda Lawrence
at a dinner party and poetry reading hosted by Amy Lowell
. Robinson, Janice S. H.D.: The Life and Work of an American Poet. Houghton Mifflin. 92 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | H. D. | The divorce between H. D.
and Richard Aldington
was finalised in London. Aldington, Richard, and H. D. “Introduction and Commentary”. Richard Aldington and H.D.: The Later Years in Letters, edited by Caroline Zilboorg, Manchester University Press, pp. 1 - 14; various pages. 67 |
| Textual Production | H. D. | The Egoist (edited by Harriet Shaw Weaver
) published a special number on Imagism which was in part the result of H. D.
's editorial influence, even before this became official with Richard Aldington
's... |
| Textual Production | H. D. | H. D.
assumed (while he was away in the army) the duties of Richard Aldington
as literary editor of The Egoist (formerly The New Freewoman, of which Harriet Shaw Weaver
was editor). Aldington, Richard, and H. D. “Introduction and Commentary”. Richard Aldington and H.D.: The Early Years in Letters, edited by Caroline Zilboorg, Indiana University Press, p. Various pages. 28 Marek, Jayne E. Women Editing Modernism: "Little" Magazines & Literary History. University Press of Kentucky. 10 |
Timeline
1907: Alfred Richard Orage and Holbrook Jackson...
Writing climate item
1907
Alfred Richard Orage
and Holbrook Jackson
acquired the weekly reviewNew Age (founded in 1894).
Kindley, Evan. “Ismism”. London Review of Books, Vol.
36
, No. 2, pp. 33-5. 34
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Orage
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
1928-9: Historian A. J. P. Taylor notes that many...
National or international item
1928-9
Historian A. J. P. Taylor
notes that many influential books on the horrors of the First World War appeared during these years.
1929: As well as Richard Aldington's Death of a...
Writing climate item
1929
As well as Richard Aldington
's Death of a Hero, this year saw publication of Erich Maria Remarque
's All Quiet on the Western Front and Robert Graves
's Goodbye to All That.
1929: In the Preface to his novel Death of a Hero,...
Writing climate item
1929
In the Preface to his novelDeath of a Hero, Richard Aldington
noted how he was required by his publishers to remove what they considered objectionable
Craig, Alec. The Banned Books of England and Other Countries. George Allen and Unwin.
83
Texts
Aldington, Richard, and H. D. “Introduction and Commentary”. Richard Aldington and H.D.: The Early Years in Letters, edited by Caroline Zilboorg, Indiana University Press, 1992, p. Various pages.
Aldington, Richard, and H. D. “Introduction and Commentary”. Richard Aldington and H.D.: The Later Years in Letters, edited by Caroline Zilboorg, Manchester University Press, 1995, pp. 1 - 14; various pages.
Sévigné, Marie de. Letters of Madame de Sévigné to her Daughter and her Friends. Editor Aldington, Richard, George Routledge, 1927.