author
Richard Aldington
1892–1962
An English writer at the heart of early Imagism, he turned the shock of World War I into poetry and fiction that still feels sharp and unsentimental. His best-known novel, Death of a Hero, helped define how a generation’s disillusionment was written about.
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, in 1892, Richard Aldington became an important early voice in the Imagist movement, the modernist circle that favored clear, precise language and vivid imagery. He wrote poetry, novels, criticism, essays, biographies, and translations over a long career, building a reputation as a versatile and often outspoken literary figure.
His experience in World War I deeply shaped his work. That wartime disillusionment is especially associated with Death of a Hero (1929), the novel for which he is most widely remembered, though he also wrote influential poetry and literary criticism. Later in life he became known as a biographer and translator as well, with studies of figures including D. H. Lawrence and T. E. Lawrence.
Aldington spent much of his later life in Europe and died in France in 1962. Readers often return to him for the combination of lyrical control, emotional directness, and hard-won skepticism that runs through his writing.