Richard Aldington

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Standard Name: Aldington, Richard
Used Form: R. A.

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Literary responses Dorothy Richardson
Some of Richardson's readers considered that she, like Joyce , focused more than necessary on the seamier details of life. Reviewers were not altogether impressed by this novel. Reviewing Richardson again in the Athenæum in...
Literary responses Bryher
In an Egoist review, Richard Aldington praised Bryher for following the literary-literal principles recently established by the Poets' Translation Series, which he and H. D. were running at the Egoist Press , and which...
Literary responses Violet Hunt
In Ford Madox Ford and the Regiment of Women, 2005, Joseph Wiesenfarth sees Hunt as gripped by the pattern of the adventurous woman becoming the victim of the reckless man.
Wiesenfarth, Joseph. Ford Madox Ford and the Regiment of Women. University of Wisconsin Press, 2005.
45-6
This echoes views...
Literary responses Violet Hunt
Author and critic Richard Aldington wrote derisively in The Egoist in January 1914 that VHwrites like a woman better than any other woman and called The Celebrity at Homeas real as Cinderella.
qtd. in
Belford, Barbara. Violet. Simon and Schuster, 1990.
219, 323
Occupation T. S. Eliot
TSE became Assistant Editor of The Egoist (in succession nominally to Richard Aldington , actually to Aldington's wife, H. D. ), a position he held until 1919.
Parker, Peter, editor. A Reader’s Guide to Twentieth-Century Writers. Oxford University Press, 1996.
216
Marsden, Dora, and Harriet Shaw Weaver, editors. The Egoist. Robert Johnson, 6 vols.
(June 1917): front page
Occupation Harriet Shaw Weaver
HSW became The Egoist's editor as well as its financial backer, with a staff of one: Richard Aldington , assistant editor.
Lidderdale, Jane, and Mary Nicholson. Dear Miss Weaver. Viking, 1970.
87, 104
Occupation Harriet Shaw Weaver
Priced at less than sixpence, the pamphlets were reprints from The Egoist. Titles include H. D. 's Choruses from Iphigenia in Aulis, Aldington 's Latin Poems of the Renaissance, F. S. Flint
Occupation H. D.
Despite her peripatetic wartime existence HD took over, by June 1916, Richard Aldington 's position as co-editor of The Egoist while he was serving in the British Army. (He had succeeded in this position to...
Occupation Nancy Cunard
Her purpose in founding the press was to publish mainly contemporary poetry of an experimental kind. Virginia Woolf warned her that Your hands will always be covered with ink,
Ford, Hugh, editor. Nancy Cunard: Brave Poet, Indomitable Rebel 1896-1965. Chilton Book Company, 1968.
69
but the Hours Press became...
Publishing D. H. Lawrence
DHL 's religious treatise, Apocalypse, was posthumously published with an introduction by Richard Aldington in New York and Florence; a London edition was issued in 1932.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Roberts, Warren. A Bibliography of D.H. Lawrence. Hart-Davis, 1963.
135
Reception D. H. Lawrence
In his introduction to DHL 's Apocalypse, Richard Aldington suggests that the underlying motivation for the book's suppression may have been Lawrence's opposition to the war and his wife 's German nationality.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Reception Samuel Beckett
The competition, for the best poem on Time, was judged by Nancy Cunard and Richard Aldington . Cunard called the winner a long poem, mysterious, obscure in parts, centered around Descartes .
qtd. in
Cohn, Ruby. Back to Beckett. Princeton University Press, 1973.
viii
Textual Features Dora Marsden
A marked difference separating The New Freewoman from its predecessor was its increased literary content, at first secured mainly by Rebecca West . West recruited Ezra Pound to The New Freewoman after meeting him at...
Textual Features Dora Marsden
While Marsden was away from London and often concerned with her own work on egoist and linguistic philosophy, these new contributors made a growing impact on the journal. Ezra Pound soon had full authority over...
Textual Features Dora Marsden
Marsden was neither unaware nor entirely appreciative of Pound's intellectual programme or his professional ethics. She told Weaver in a letter of November 1913 (after the journal had again been relaunched with a new name)...

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