author
Richard Aldington
1892–1962
A sharp, restless voice of early modern poetry, he helped shape the Imagist movement and later turned the shock of World War I into some of his most memorable writing. His work ranges from lean, vivid poems to novels, criticism, and biography.
3 Audiobooks
Some Imagist Poets: An Anthology
by Richard Aldington, John Gould Fletcher, F. S. (Frank Stewart) Flint, H. D. (Hilda Doolittle), D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence, Amy Lowell
Some Imagist Poets, 1916: An Annual Anthology
by Richard Aldington, John Gould Fletcher, F. S. (Frank Stewart) Flint, H. D. (Hilda Doolittle), D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence, Amy Lowell
Death of a hero : a novel
by Richard Aldington
About the author
Born in Portsmouth, England, on July 8, 1892, Richard Aldington became one of the early figures of Imagism, the literary movement that favored clear language, strong images, and musical precision. He was closely connected with other major modernist writers, including H.D. and Ezra Pound, and he also worked as an editor, critic, and translator.
World War I left a lasting mark on his life and writing. Aldington served in the British Army, and the experience shaped both his poetry and his best-known novel, Death of a Hero (1929), a fierce response to the damage and disillusionment of war.
Over a long career, he wrote not only poems and fiction but also essays, literary criticism, translations, and biographies. He died in France on July 27, 1962, leaving behind a body of work that bridges the energy of early modernism with a deeply personal record of a troubled century.