Richard Aldington

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Standard Name: Aldington, Richard
Used Form: R. A.

Connections

Connections Author name 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 .
Cohn, Ruby. Back to Beckett. Princeton University Press.
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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.
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but the Hours Press became...
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.
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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.
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Marsden, Dora, and Harriet Shaw Weaver, editors. The Egoist. Robert Johnson.
(June 1917): front page
Textual Production T. S. Eliot
In June 1917 TSE took over the post of literary editor at The Egoist from his fellow American expatriate the poet and critic H. D. (though nominally from her then husband Richard Aldington , who...
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.
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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.
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Marek, Jayne E. Women Editing Modernism: "Little" Magazines & Literary History. University Press of Kentucky.
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Textual Production H. D.
H. D. published her first book, Sea Garden, a volume of twenty-seven short, decentred
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.
lyric poems in vers libre; it appeared just as Richard Aldington left for the front in the First World War.
Boughn, Michael. H.D.: A Bibliography 1905-1990. University Press of Virginia.
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“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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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...

Timeline

1907: Alfred Richard Orage and Holbrook Jackson...

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1907

Alfred Richard Orage and Holbrook Jackson acquired the weekly reviewNew Age (founded in 1894).
Kindley, Evan. “Ismism”. London Review of Books, Vol.
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, No. 2, pp. 33-5.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Orage
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1928-9: Historian A. J. P. Taylor notes that many...

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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...

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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,...

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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.
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and that asterisks had been placed to...

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.