Richard Aldington: An Autobiography in Letters [Hardcover]

Richard Aldington (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1992

In the most comprehensive selection of his letters ever published, Norman Gates allows Richard Aldington to tell the story of his life in his own words. Unlike Aldington's autobiography, Life for Life's Sake, published twenty years before his death, these letters include those two important decades of his life and do not depend upon memory. Gates provides an introduction to each of the book's five sections, sketching Aldington's biography during that decade, but the reader may then listen to Aldington's own voice speaking through his letters.Richard Aldington was married to the American poet H.D. and was a friend to many other writers and artists at the center of the Modern period. His comments on his colleagues and their work, his efforts to promote their literary fortunes, his passionate love for two wives and two mistresses, are all a part of these letters. So, too, are his experiences on the editorial staffs of the Egoist and the Criterion, which brought him to touch with European and American writers. For a clear picture of the literary world of this time, Aldington's letters are indispensable.

--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

British writer Richard Aldington (1892-1962) was an important force in the Modern Movement as an early Imagist poet, novelist, biographer, critic and translator. These revealing letters, heavily footnoted and arranged chronologically with introductory essays by Gates ( The Poetry of Richard Aldington ) were written from 1912 to 1962. Aldington's first novel, Death of a Hero , brought him fame, but his career went into an eclipse after he published a controversial biography of T. E. Lawrence. His letters to writers such as the poet H. D. (his first wife), Ezra Pound, D. H. Lawrence and Amy Lowell show his passionate commitment to the world of letters but also reflect his romantic life (he left H. D. for another woman), his snobbism and the racism and homophobia of the times.

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About the Author

Norman T. Gates is Professor Emeritus of English at Rider College and author of The Poetry of Richard Aldington: A Critical Evaluation and an Anthology of Uncollected Poems (Penn State, 1974) and A Checklist of the Letters of Richard Aldington (Southern Illinois, 1977). --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 402 pages
• Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press; 1St Edition edition (January 1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0271008326
• ISBN-13: 978-0271008325
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.2 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,233,607 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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