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Richard Aldington
Richard Aldington was an English writer and poet. He was an early associate of the Imagist movement. His 50-year writing career produced "143 separate titles, including poetry, literary criticism, fiction, essays, anthologies, biographies, translations, and introductions. In addition, he published reviews of over 1,350 separate books, published hundreds of other articles, and wrote an immense quan…
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culture · English writer and poet (1892–1962) · poet · translator · journalist · novelist · writer · biographer · military personnel · literary critic · editing staff · critic · also Richard Aldington, Edward Godfree Aldington, Aldington
Born 8 July 1892 · Died 27 July 1962 · Q514998
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2025· 1 entry
BroadwayWorld: RICHARD ALDINGTON: VERSATILE MAN OF LETTERS On View At The Grolier Club Beginning In September
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1962· 2 entries
Died 1962-07-27.
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Described him as "[a]n angry young man of the generation before they became fashionable
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1959· 1 entry
Awarded Prix de gratitude mistralienne (1959).
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1947· 1 entry
Aldington met the Australian writer Alister Kershaw in Paris
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1946· 1 entry
Awarded James Tait Black Memorial Prize (1946).
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1942· 1 entry
Having relocated to the United States with his new wife Netta, he began to write biographies, starting with Wellington: The Duke: Being an Account of the Life & Achievements of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (1
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1938· 2 entries
Richard and Netta had a daughter Catherine; in 1950, Netta left him to raise Catherine by himself
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Married Netta Patmore, née McCullough, previously Brigit's daughter-in-law
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1930· 1 entry
Aldington published a translation of The Decameron and then the romance All Men are Enemies (1933)
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1919· 1 entry
Introduced Eliot to the editor Bruce Richmond of The Times Literary Supplement
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1914· 3 entries
Deeply disturbed Aldington, though no draft was in place at this time
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Who would become a close friend and mentor to both
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And taking dictation for The Good Soldier
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1913· 1 entry
Travelled together extensively through Italy and France, just before the war
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1911· 1 entry
Aldington met society hostess Brigit Patmore, with whom he had a passing affair
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1892· 2 entries
Born 1892-07-08.
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“the Forest: A Phantasmagoria (1924). Aldington suffered a breakdown in 1925. His interest in poetry waned, and he developed an animosity towards Eliot”
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