biography
| name: |
Aldington, Richard
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originally Edward Godfree
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pronunciation:
[awldingtn]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1892–1962)
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| biography:
| Writer, born in Hampshire, S England, UK. He studied at London University, and in 1913 became editor of The New Freewoman (renamed The Egoist in 1914), the periodical of the Imagist school. His experiences in World War 1 led to his best-known novel, Death of a Hero (1929). He published several volumes of poetry, The Viking Book of Poetry of the English-Speaking World (1941), and many critical works and biographies. In 1941 his autobiography Life for Life's Sake appeared. Wellington (1946) was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. He married Hilda Doolittle (‘HD’) in 1913 (divorced, 1937). |
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