Death of a Hero is a World War I novel by Richard Aldington.

Richard Aldington in uniform during World War I

Aldington was best known for his World War I poetry, the 1929 novel, Death of a Hero, and the controversy arising from his 1955 Lawrence of Arabia: A Biographical Inquiry.

However, with World War I as a backdrop, the times were not easy for avant-garde literary movements ( Aldington, for example, spent much of the war at the front ), and the 1917 anthology effectively marked the end of the Imagists as a movement.

* July 27-Richard Aldington, World War I writer

The outbreak of World War I represented a setback for the budding modernist movement for a number of reasons: firstly, writers like Aldington found themselves in active service ; secondly, paper shortages and related factors meant that publication of new work became increasingly difficult ; and, thirdly, public sentiment in time of war meant that war poets such as Wilfred Owen, who wrote more conventional verse, became increasingly popular.

On February 6, 2008, several medals from World War I were stolen from a home in Knoll Hill, Aldington, Kent.

In 1989 Lord Aldington initiated and won a record £ 1. 5million ( plus £ 500, 000 costs ) in a libel case against Count Nikolai Tolstoy and Nigel Watts, who had accused him of war crimes in Austria during his involvement in the Betrayal of the Cossacks at Lienz, part of Operation Keelhaul at the end of the Second World War.

On 11 November 1985, Aldington was among 16 Great War poets commemorated on a slate stone unveiled in Westminster Abbey's Poet's Corner.

In November 1985, a slate memorial was unveiled in Poet's Corner commemorating 16 poets of the Great War: Richard Aldington, Laurence Binyon, Edmund Blunden, Rupert Brooke, Wilfrid Gibson, Robert Graves, Julian Grenfell, Ivor Gurney, David Jones, Robert Nichols, Wilfred Owen, Herbert Read, Isaac Rosenberg, Siegfried Sassoon, Charles Sorley and Edward Thomas.

He was one of an identified group of post-World War I critics that included Richard Aldington, Robert Graves, Aldous Huxley, Herbert Read, and Edgell Rickword.

Aldington, in his 1941 memoir, writes: " I think the poems of Ezra Pound, H. D., Lawrence, and Ford Madox Ford will continue to be read.

When Aldington first published his novel, he redacted a number of passages in order to ensure the publication of his book would not be challenged.

In 1933, his novel titled All Men are Enemies appeared ; it was a romance, as the author chose to call it, and a brighter book than Death of a Hero, even though Aldington took an anti-war stance again.

Richard Aldington ( 8 July 1892 – 27 July 1962 ), born Edward Godfree Aldington, was an English writer and poet.

Aldington was born in Portsmouth, the son of a solicitor, and educated at Dover College, and for a year at the University of London.

At this time, he was one of the poets around the proto-Imagist T. E. Hulme ; Robert Ferguson in his life of Hulme portrays Aldington as too squeamish to approve of Hulme's robust approach, particularly to women.

Aldington and H. D. attempted to mend their marriage in 1919, after the birth of her daughter by a friend of writer D. H. Lawrence, named Cecil Gray, with whom she had become involved and lived with while Aldington was at war.

However, she was by this time deeply involved in a lesbian relationship with the wealthy writer Bryher, and she and Aldington formally separated, both becoming romantically involved with other people, but they did not divorce until 1938.

The Religion of Beauty ( subtitle Selections From the Aesthetes ) was a prose and poetry anthology edited by Aldington and published in 1950.

and Aldington was likely to be diluted by the " custard " of Storer, was to play no further direct role in the history of the Imagists.

The result was the Imagist Anthology 1930, edited by Aldington and including all the contributors to the four earlier anthologies with the exception of Lowell, who had died, Cannell, who had disappeared, and Pound, who declined.

( born Hilda Doolittle ; September 10, 1886 – September 27, 1961 ) was an American poet, novelist and memoirist known for her association with the early 20th century avant-garde Imagist group of poets such as Ezra Pound and Richard Aldington.

married Aldington in 1913 ; however, their first and only child, a daughter, was stillborn in 1915.

When Aldington returned from active service he was noticeably traumatised, and he and H. D.

came close to death when she gave birth to her daughter Frances Perdita Aldington — although the father was not Aldington, but Gray — while suffering from war influenza.

and Aldington attempted to salvage their relationship during this time, but he was suffering from the effects of his participation in the war, possibly post-traumatic stress disorder, and they became estranged, living completely separate lives, but not divorcing until 1938.

She had lost her brother in action, while her husband suffered effects of combat experiences, and she believed that the onslaught of the war indirectly caused the death of her child with Aldington: she believed it was her shock at hearing the news about the RMS Lusitania that directly caused her miscarriage.

" He contributed to a legal defence fund set up to help Nikolai Tolstoy, who was charged with libel in a 1989 case brought by Lord Aldington over war crimes allegations made by Tolstoy related to this operation.

Arthur Charles Evans CBE ( 21 March 1916-18 March 2011 ) is the author of Sojourn in Silesia and lived in Aldington ( a village outside of Ashford ), he worked for Kent County Constabulary and was Chief of Administration at Ashford Police Station, a position he held until 1981.

Deedes was made a life peer in 1986, becoming Baron Deedes, of Aldington in the County of Kent, though he always preferred to be addressed as " Bill " rather than " Lord Deedes ".

In landscape terms, the parish of Bonnington has much in common with its neighbour Aldington.

Aldington made an effort with A Fool i ' the Forest ( 1924 ) to reply to the new style of poetry launched by The Waste Land.

* 1892 – Richard Aldington, English poet ( d. 1962 )

Richard Aldington and Delano Ames.

* July 27 – Richard Aldington, English poet ( b. 1892 )

* July 8 – Richard Aldington, English poet ( d. 1962 )

The prints also influenced early Modernist poetry in many important ways, with Imagist poets such as Ezra Pound, Richard Aldington and Amy Lowell allowing them strongly to influence their imagery and aesthetic sentiments.

and Aldington, in 1912.

However, Aldington shared Hulme's conviction that experimentation with traditional Japanese verse forms could provide a way forward for avant-garde literature in English, and went often to the British Museum to examine Nishiki-e prints illustrating such poetry.

In 1915, Aldington and H. D.

Aldington never completely recovered from his war experiences, and may have continued to suffer from the then-unrecognised phenomenon of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.