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isidro_li: On earth Apple-trees, weighted with red fruit, Streams, passing through the corn-lands, Hear laughter. We pluck the asphodel, Yet we weave no crowns For we have no vines; No one speaks here; No one kisses. — Richard Aldington

war_poets: 3 March 1917 Richard Aldington writes ‘All wasted youth, broken hope, lost effort touches me deeply–and–you will think me very inhuman–I don’t mind when I see older men “clipped” & hear them moaning–it’s the boys, the dear heart of youth stabbed–that’s what hurts.’

TheWFA: Richard Aldington, an established and successful poet, critic, and translator by 1928, wrote ‘Death of a Hero’ in a rush, which only adds to its vitality and authenticity. Read our reviews of ‘Death of a Hero’ and Vivien Whelpton’s biography (Part I) >

war_poets: 22 February 1918 Richard Aldington writes ‘Have you seen Manning’s poems? You don’t mention them, so I imagine you haven’t. Some of them are really fine, some quite good, & a residue rotten; but there is enough good stuff in the book to make it quite worth while'

AldingtonR: CfP: Survival and Exile: Richard Aldington’s response to his war, London, Sat 2 Dec 2023

RudraSh22779426: 203. “Patriotism is a lively sense of collective responsibility.” — Richard Aldington PRIYANKA OWNS TROPHY ARISING WINNER PRIYANKA

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konallis: Though H.D. did play with names in her work and life, this choice was pedestrian. What other surname would the baby have had? 'Aldington' was also H.D.'s name, one she kept even after she and Richard Aldington legally divorced in the 1930s.

war_poets: 22 January 1917 Richard Aldington writes to F.S. Flint ‘you remember some time ago the Times issued a series of pamphlets for soldiers, extracts from English classics? I wish you’d get hold of some for me–I’d like something to read & chuck away'

johnstonglenn: The famous group photograph of Victor Plarr, Sturge Moore, WB Yeats, Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, Ezra Pound, Richard Aldington and FS Flint was taken at Blunt's home OTD in 1914.

AmaGiSJ: “Patriotism is a lively sense of collective responsibility. Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on its own dunghill”. - Richard Aldington

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war_poets: 2 January 1918 Richard Aldington writes to his American publisher ‘am thinking of collecting all my war poems—I have about 60 or 70—into a book. Do you think the U.S.A. would care for them? They are not popular—I mean they are bitter, anguish-stricken, realistic,'

poemtoday: In response to a recent controversy over poetry… Penultimate Poetry (1914) The apparition of these poems in a crowd: White faces in a black dead faint. Richard Aldington

war_poets: 21 December 1916 Richard Aldington travels via London to the coast.

war_poets: 20 December 1916 Richard Aldington writes to F.S. Flint ‘Off to France to-morrow (Thursday) to the Leicesters. My new number 36179. I don’t know wh. battalion, so can’t tell you address. Also don’t know whether I drop the “stripe” or not–I rather fancy I do

mrJonnyDelta: D H Lawrence, 1885 - 1930 : an appreciation : Richard Aldington : Penguin Books, Harmondsworth : 1950 mikeyashworth posted a photo: A slender 'Penguin Book" that was issued free to purchasers of the set of D H Lawrence... -

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AnnNonm: “Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dung hill” Richard Aldington

CuritisGallach1: 点我头像+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++V Todd Cocker Walker Andrew Merle Aldington ofproof. Darren Richard Adolph Locke Belinda Wyld(e)

DabblingBooks: Check out Italy : a book of photographs introduction by Richard Aldington 1st Edition 1961 £4

wallis_ira: 点我头像++++++++++++++++V Ruth Piers Merle Aldington Colby Gosse Quintina Warner Sean Roger Chester Rusk Berg Lindsay Richard Moses

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TheWFA: Try these podcasts. Aimee Fox talks about her book Learning to Fight, Viv Whelpton talks about the life and service of Great War poet Richard Aldington and historian and photographer Attila Szalay-Berzeviczy talks about his book In the Centennial Footsteps of the Great War.

StracheyVita: 点我头像++++++++++++++++V Merle Aldington Joseph Walker William Bentham Richard Moses Harold Barton James Jerry Leo Hutt

wallis_ira: 点我头像++++++++++++++++V Merle Aldington Takelearningas Darren Richard Lee Titus Christine Jerome Violet Margaret Sebastian Morgan Baron Baldwin

war_poets: 1 December 1914 An issue of the modernist journal The Egoist contains three pieces by Richard Aldington, including the agnostic quatrain ‘To the Supreme Being in War Time.’

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TheWFA: Reviews of some of the books which Hugh Cecil was passionate about. Death of a Hero - Richard Aldington >

TheWFA: Had he lived longer, would Wilfred Ewart have emulated the likes of Ernest Hemingway, Robert Graves, Ernst Junger, Erich Maria Remarque, Blaise Cendrars, Richard Aldington, John Buchan or Frederick Manning ? What do you think? >

TheWFA: ‘The casualty lists went on appearing for a long time after the Armistice - the last spasms of Europe’s severed arteries.’ (Adlington, ‘Death of a Hero’, 1929. p.3) >

war_poets: 22 November 1916 Richard Aldington writes to F.S. Flint ‘It is quite possible that I may “go across” in a week or so. I don’t know anything definite of course, but I believe an Army Order is coming out soon for all trained N.C.O.’s & officers to proceed to France'

war_poets: 19 November 1916 Richard Aldington writes 'The barrack rooms are like a vast row of wine-cellars cut out of the ramparts: or rather in size and shape exactly the arches of a railway viaduct walled and windowed at each end. Along the back runs a long, gloomy, vaulted corridor'

sleika4: Time is a mirage, it shortens in moments of happiness and stretches out in hours of suffering.⌛️ - Richard Aldington.

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war_poets: 8 November 1918 Richard Aldington writes to his wife ‘We are fighting & advancing all the time–no rest, but we don’t mind if only it’s ending the bally business...This is very interesting & exciting–new towns & villages every day'

war_poets: 4 November 1918 Richard Aldington writes ‘I was looking at the luminous dial of my watch in the grey dawn and giving my headquarter signallers the order to advance. As far as eye could see to north or south a huge curve of flashing gunfire lit up the sky'

war_poets: 1 November 1918 Richard Aldington writes to his wife ‘Herewith blank cheque–only to be used if I am killed. It will save any trouble about duties &c. Just go to Cox’s & find my balance & make out cheque accordingly.'

HibbertLizzie: Richard Aldington to his agent in 1935 on his first ever visit to the United States: "Well, Harold, this is a great country. 120 million people, most of them morons. ... I find it all very exciting."

ScottAndPark: Precision and economy were highly valued by Pound and the other proponents of the movement, which included F.S. Flint, William Carlos Williams, Amy Lowell, Richard Aldington, and Hilda Doolittle.

ushgarak1977: "Somehow we must atone to the dead- the dead, murdered, violently-dead soldiers. The reproach is not from them, but in ourselves... the whole world is blood-guilty, cursed like Orestes, and mad, and destroying itself.' Richard Aldington, Death of a Hero, 1929

Lokster71: More H.D. please publishers. Can someone - Vintage, Penguin Modern Classics or whoever - please look to re-print more of her work. I also think a paired edition of Richard Aldington's 'Death of a Hero' and H.D.'s 'Bid Me To Live' is a good idea.

dean_frey: T. S. Eliot by Alfred Eisenstaedt for Life Magazine, 1951 "His criticism is sane without being dull or imitative; original without eccentricities; profound without obscurity; cultured without affectation; vigorous without being superficial." - Richard Aldington

Frankwspencer: People descriptors (379) Richard Aldington of the Smithers family (not Mr Smithers)

war_poets: 14 September 1915 Richard Aldington writes from London ‘Do I know anything of the raid? My God, we had shrapnel bursting over head for 15 minutes, & saw the Zeppelin wondering where it would plant its next bomb! The Post Office was just missed’

ScottAndPark: She travelled to Europe in 1911, intending to spend only a summer, but remained abroad for the rest of her life. Through Pound, H. D. grew interested in and quickly became a leader of the Imagist movement, along with T. E. Hulme, F. S. Flint, Richard Aldington, and others.

konallis: provided she belonged to the gentry. In the Smithers social system, 'the poor' civilians were in much the same position as military other ranks; all communications from superiors were to be received at attention.' - Richard Aldington, The Colonel's Daughter (1931)

ladiesalmanack: ☝️ Natalie Clifford Barney to Richard Aldington trying to persuade them to publish Djuna Barnes' Ladies Almanack (1928), which is the inspiration for the name of this project, as well as the profile picture and the twitter bio

war_poets: 25 August 1917 Richard Aldington writes ‘And with the improvement in food & conditions one gets as an officer I have now become ‘very fit’ — very sunburned, not quite so fat, fresh and very ‘male’! The last two months have been the most agreeable I’ve had for over two years.’

war_poets: 21 August 1916 Richard Aldington writes to F.S. Flint ‘on or before Sept. 1st I am for Plymouth & Salonica, or Wareham & the Somme – the next few days will show. You must not speak of this to anyone, as I could get into serious trouble for revealing movement of troops’

crollyson: What happened when Richard Aldington decided to a do a biography of Lawrence is a tale I tell in A Higher Form of Cannibalism? Adventures in the Art and Politics of Biography:

MichaelBarrick: Tales from the Decameron Giovanni Boccaccio, written 1351-53 translated by Richard Aldington, 1930 Garden City Publishing, US, 1930

war_poets: 27 July 1962 Richard Aldington dies

mag400: Check out France La France Frankreich A Book of Photographs Intro Richard Aldington

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HalfAsHistory: Richard Aldington, English poet and author 1962 · 60 years ago

war_poets: 24 July 1916 Richard Aldington writes ‘This army life is stupid, boring and demoralising. The young ones learn to drink, and fornicate with disgusting whores–the old ones quickly become animals with an obscene tongue'

HarryWatson63: 'Cinema Exit’ by the imagist poet Richard Aldington describing throngs of people leaving Second World War cinemas, Of the glimmering pictures, The dry feeling in the eyes As the sight follows the electric flickerings, The banal sentimentality of the films ...

JF3336: The mythical island was also a part of other literary works, including Richard Aldington’s 1933 novel All Men Are Enemies and John Banville’s 1993 novel Ghosts.

war_poets: 20 July 1918 Richard Aldington writes ‘Just to say that I am back in the line & quite all right. It is very quiet here, quite supernaturally so! There is no news. I had a book from Alec Randall which will be amusing to read. Somehow I have no thought up here,’

bufocalvin: Happy bookish birthdays, 8 July to: Jean de La Fontaine (Fables), Richard Aldington (Death of a Hero), Susan Price (Ghost Drum), Doug Molitor (Memoirs of a Time Traveler)...

war_poets: 8 July 1917 Richard Aldington spends his twenty-fifth birthday with his wife, the poet H.D., at her rooms in the village of Brocton.

Book_Addict: Happy birthday to English writer and poet Richard Aldington (July 8, 1892), author of " The Religion of Beauty: Selections from the Aesthetes" (1950) and many, many other works.

GAURAVP59941598: By the sense of mystery I understand the experience of certain places and times when one's whole nature seems to be in touch with a prescence, a genius loci, a potency. ~ Richard Aldington

LucyLondon7: British WW1 soldier poet Richard Aldington was born on 8th July 1892

jlorts: "I began to write what I called 'rhythms' ie unrhymed pieces with no formal metrical scheme where the rhythm was created by a kind if inner chant... Later I was told I was writing 'free verse' or Vers libre." --Richard Aldington (1892-1962)

jlorts: "All nations teach their children to be "patriotic", and abuse the other nations for fostering nationalism." --Richard Aldington

pauljimerson: It’s the birthday of novelist and poet Richard Aldington (1892). He was born in Portsmouth, England, but he chose the name “Richard” for himself while he was still a boy. He married fellow poet Hilda Doolittle, known as H.D., in 1913.

icliving: Good morning Portsmouth. On this day in 1892 Richard Aldington was born in the City. He was a writer and poet, and an early associate of the Imagist movement. His 50-year writing career covered poetry, novels, criticism and biography.

war_poets: 8 July 1892 Richard Aldington is born

konallis: 'We have been displayed all day for the benefit of an old general whose ideas are detestable to me but whose influence on my unfortunate country is great and decisive.' - Richard Aldington, writing home from the trenches on his 26th birthday, 8 July 1918

AlBagocius: "A little common sense, goodwill, and a tiny dose of unselfishness could make this goodly earth into an earthly paradise." Richard Aldington

war_poets: 26 June 1918 Richard Aldington writes ‘Well I’ve got over my little fever fit and am walking about again, rather slowly as my head feels a little queer still & my legs shake a bit. But I’m better, much better; very terribly tired of the war though.’

war_poets: 24 June 1916 Richard Aldington leaves for the 11th Devonshires camp near Wareham in Dorset.

konallis: Lunchtime charity shop find: 1950 Penguin edition of Etruscan Places by D.H. Lawrence, with introduction by Richard Aldington.

RJ_Howes: Patriotism is a lively sense of collective responsibility. Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on its own dunghill and calling for larger spurs and brighter beaks. RICHARD ALDINGTON

Martin_V: Finally made it to where Padworth and Aldermaston meet on the tranquil Kennet and Avon Canal in Berkshire where that brilliant, tormented writer Richard Aldington lived 100 years ago and began to recover from the traumas of the ‘Great’ War.

Martin_V: The Butt Inn, Aldermaston by Padworth in Berkshire. Richard Aldington probably entertained visitors such as DH Lawrence and TS Eliot here.

war_poets: 2 June 1918 Richard Aldington writes ‘On the day after to-morrow I am being sent down the line for a five weeks course. I may not last anything like that time as I should be sent for if reinforcements were badly needed.’

Patbrdh: I dream of silent verses where the rhyme Glides noiseless as an oar. Richard Aldington

war_poets: 31 May 1918 Richard Aldington’s company is withdrawn from the front line just before a sudden gas attack which caused heavy casualties among their replacements. He soon incorporates this into a poem ‘Landscape’ Loos, May, 1918

war_poets: 28 May 1918 Richard Aldington writes to his wife ‘It seems a long time since I heard from you, but of course time does drag in the front line; so perhaps it is not so long as I think. Have done 2/3 of our time up here — I shan’t be sorry when we are relieved.’

AlkhaterAziz: Patriotism is a lively sense of collective responsibility. Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on its own dunghill. Richard Aldington

war_poets: 20 May 1918 Richard Aldington writes to his wife ‘Out here I really don’t know what one lives for. I don’t pretend it is all misery and horror; there are moments of rest, compensation, gaiety even. But there is constant wear'

historyjordan46: a claim that is difficult to verify, considering the amount of lies and exaggerations in his book, some of which were exposed by British historian Richard Aldington in 1955, to the degree of describing his book as work of fiction.

war_poets: 17 May 1918 Richard Aldington writes to his wife ‘Back here once more everything goes; I ask myself often what am I living for? Why do I trouble to hide from a shell or bullets? Only the mere weakness of the flesh'

konallis: Richard Aldington, but that's skewed because a) he wrote a lot of books, and b) I collect them and have multiple editions. After him, probably Diana Wynne Jones or Georgette Heyer (both also prolific).

war_poets: 6 May 1918 Richard Aldington writes ‘I am right in the line in temporary command of a company, which means a lot of work & responsibility. However, that helps to pass the time. When I have done my 10 days trip up (5 of wh: has passed) I am going to the base for a course'

war_poets: 1 May 1916 Richard Aldington’s poem ‘A Life’ is published in The Egoist

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