43 Facts About Richard Aldington

Richard Aldington, born Edward Godfree Aldington, was an English writer and poet, and an early associate of the Imagist movement.

Richard Aldington's 50-year writing career covered poetry, novels, criticism and biography.

Richard Aldington edited The Egoist, a literary journal, and wrote for The Times Literary Supplement, Vogue, The Criterion and Poetry.

Richard Aldington championed Hilda Doolittle as the major poetic voice of the Imagist movement and helped her work gain international notice.

Richard Aldington was born in Portsmouth, the eldest of four children and the son of a solicitor.

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Richard Aldington was educated at Mr Sweetman's Seminary for Young Gentlemen, St Margaret's Bay, near Dover.

Richard Aldington attended Dover College, followed by the University of London.

Richard Aldington was unable to complete his degree because of the financial circumstances of his family caused by his father's failed speculations and ensuing debt.

In 1911 Richard Aldington met society hostess Brigit Patmore, with whom he had a passing affair.

Doolittle and Richard Aldington grew closer and in 1913 travelled together extensively through Italy and France, just before the war.

Richard Aldington's poetry was associated with the Imagist group, championing minimalist free verse with stark images, seeking to banish Victorian moralism.

Unhappy, Richard Aldington dreamed of escape to America and began to have affairs.

Richard Aldington began a relationship with Florence Fallas, who had lost a child.

Richard Aldington was assistant editor with Leonard Compton-Rickett under Dora Marsden.

Richard Aldington knew Wyndham Lewis well and reviewed his work in The Egoist.

Richard Aldington was an associate of Ford Madox Ford's, helping him with a propaganda volume for a government commission in 1914 and taking dictation for The Good Soldier.

Richard Aldington joined up in June 1916 and was sent for training at Wareham in Dorset.

Richard Aldington felt fundamentally different from the other men, more given to intellectual pursuits than unending physical labour that left him little time to write.

Richard Aldington encouraged H D to return to America where she could make a safer and more stable home.

When Richard Aldington was sent to the front in December 1916, the couple's relationship became epistolary.

Richard Aldington wrote that he'd managed to complete 12 poems and three essays since joining up and wanted to work on producing a new book, in order to keep his mind on literature, despite his work of digging graves.

Richard Aldington found the soldier's life degrading, living with lice, cold, mud and little sanitation.

Richard Aldington was given leave in July 1917 and the couple enjoyed a reunion during this brief reprieve.

Richard Aldington felt distant from old Imagist friends like Pound who had not undergone the tortuous life of the soldiers on the front and could not imagine the living conditions.

Richard Aldington joined up in the 11th Leicestershires and was later commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Royal Sussex Regiment .

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Richard Aldington finished the war as a signals officer and temporary captain, being demobilised in February 1919.

Richard Aldington ended the war feeling disconsolate about his own talent as a poet.

Richard Aldington was on the editorial board of Chaman Lall's London literary quarterly Coterie, accompanied by Conrad Aiken, Eliot, Lewis and Aldous Huxley.

Ezra Pound, plotting a scheme to "get Eliot out of the bank", was supported by Lady Ottoline Morrell, Leonard Woolf and Harry Norton Richard Aldington began publishing in journals such as the Imagist The Chapbook.

Richard Aldington grew closer to Eliot but gradually became a supporter of Vivienne Eliot in the troubled marriage.

Richard Aldington satirised her husband as "Jeremy Cibber" in Stepping Heavenward .

Richard Aldington had a relationship with writer Valentine Dobree and a lengthy and passionate affair with Arabella Yorke, a lover since Mecklenburgh Square days, coming to an end when he went abroad.

Richard Aldington lived in Paris for years, living with Brigit Patmore and fascinated by Nancy Cunard, whom he met in 1928.

Death of a Hero, which Richard Aldington called a "jazz novel, " was his semi-autobiographical response to the war.

Richard Aldington started writing it almost immediately after the armistice was declared.

Richard Aldington was fiercely non-partisan in his politics, despite his passion for iconoclasm and feminism.

In 1930 Richard Aldington published a translation of The Decameron and then the romance All Men are Enemies .

Lawrence had attended Oxford, and his father was a baronet; Richard Aldington suffered in the bloodbath of Europe during the First World War while Lawrence gained a heroic reputation in the Middle Eastern theatre and became an international celebrity, a homosexual icon, as Richard Aldington saw it.

Richard Aldington's last significant book was a biography of the Provencal poet and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Frederic Mistral .

Richard Aldington died in Sury on 27 July 1962, shortly after being honoured in Moscow on the occasion of his seventieth birthday and the publication of some of his novels in Russian translation.

Richard Aldington left one daughter, Catherine, the child of his second marriage; she died in 2010.

On 11 November 1985 Richard Aldington was among 16 Great War poets commemorated in stone at Westminster Abbey's Poet's Corner.

Alec Waugh described Richard Aldington as having been embittered by the war, but took it that he worked off his spleen in novels like The Colonel's Daughter rather than letting it poison his life.