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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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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
. Cohn, Ruby. Back to Beckett. Princeton University Press. viii |
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 | |
Travel | H. D. | HD made two trips through France and Italy before 1913 with Richard Aldington
, whom she later married. Ezra Pound
went with them on one of these occasions. |
Friends, Associates | H. D. | By 1916 Lawrence and HD were corresponding regularly and exchanging literary works. HD found his friendship comforting and supportive during the escalating turmoil of war. After he and Frieda left Cornwall under suspicion of spying... |
Occupation | H. D. | Despite her peripatetic wartime existence HD took over, by June 1916, Richard Aldington
's position as co-editor of The Egoist while he was serving in the British Army. (He had succeeded in this position to... |
Family and Intimate relationships | H. D. | It is now generally accepted among HD's biographers and critics that Cecil Gray
had fathered the child. HD informed her Richard Aldington
, her husband, of her pregnancy while he was still on active duty... |
Textual Production | H. D. | In autumn 1912 Hilda Doolittle
and her new friend Richard Aldington
together showed Ezra Pound
some of their collaborative translations from the Greek Anthology. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Textual Production | H. D. | During her London years HD also did important work (with Amy Lowell
and Richard Aldington
) on the three Imagist anthologies of 1915-17, and with the latter she edited the Poets' Translation Series for the... |
Textual Features | H. D. | Like the later End to Torment, this relates its author's attachments to and disaffection from Lawrence
and Pound
, her (tor)mentors. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. |