Aldington, a veteran of World War I, claimed that his novel was accurate in terms of speech and style.

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.

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.

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

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 ".

Toby Austin Richard William Low, 1st Baron Aldington, KCMG, CBE, DSO, TD, DL, PC, ( 25 May 1914 – 7 December 2000 ), was a British Conservative Party politician and businessman best known for his alleged role in Operation Keelhaul, the forced repatriation of Russian, Ukrainian and other prisoners of war to the Soviet Union where many were executed.

The main gangs on the Marsh were the Hawkhurst Gang, the Mayfield Gang and the Aldington Gang, known also as the Blues.

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.

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.

* James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Richard Aldington, Wellington

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.

Assistant editors were Richard Aldington and Leonard A. Compton-Rickett, with H. D. When Aldington left in 1917 for the Army, his place was taken by T. S. Eliot, who was also working on Prufrock and other Observations at the time ( published as a small book by The Egoist ).

Nigel Watts was jailed for 18 months in April 1995, after repeating the libel that Aldington was a war criminal in a pamphlet.

In 1996 the Court of Appeal upheld an order Aldington had obtained that made lawyers acting for Tolstoy pro bono parties to the case, and thereby jointly liable with Tolstoy for any costs or damages awarded to Aldington.

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

Richard Aldington in uniform during World War I

* July 27-Richard Aldington, World War I writer

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.

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.

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.

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

suffered the death of her brother and the breakup of her marriage to the poet Richard Aldington, and these events weighed heavily on her later poetry.

poems's to the ideas and principles he had been discussing with Aldington, with whom he had shared plans to reform contemporary poetry through free verse, the tanka and the tightness and conciseness of the haiku, and the removal of all unnecessary verbiage.

Salkeld published five books of poetry, Hello, Eternity ( Elkin Mathews 1933 ), A Dubliner ( Dublin: Gayfield 1942 ), The Fox ’ s Covert ( JM Dent 1935 ), the engine is left running ( Gayfield 1937 ), and Experiment In Error ( Aldington, Kent: Hand & Flower Press 1955 ).