Richard Aldington: A Biography

by Charles Doyle

Overview

This is the first biography of Richard Aldington, contemporary and friend of Ezra Pound, D.H. Lawrence and T.S. Eliot and notable as a poet, translator, editor, novelist, biographer and significant member of the Modernist era. A critical appraisal of his major writings is included.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349102266
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	01/01/1989
Edition description:	1st ed. 1989
Pages:	379
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Charles Doyle is Professor of English at the University of Victoria, British Columbia. He has also lectured at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He is a poet, editor, critic and biographer and has written on political subjects. His previous publications include James K. Baxter, Stonedancer, William Carlos Williams: The Critical Heritage, William Carlos Williams and the American Poem, A Steady Hand, The New Reality: The Politics of Restraint in British Columbia, Wallace Stevens: The Critical Heritage and After Bennett: A New Politics for British Columbia.

Table of Contents

Chrysalis - 1892-1911; Pound and Hilda Doolittle - 1912-1913; egoists - 1913; images, lost and found - 1915-1916; war - 1916-1918; aftermaths - 1919-1920; Malthouse Cottage: working at the writer's trade - 1921-1925, Eliot - 1919-1927, the late twenties - 1926-1928; Port-Cros and after - 1928-1929; a career as a novelist - 1929-1931; 1931-1938; farewell to Europe - 1939-1940; 1941-1954; 1950-1955 - the T.E. Lawrence affair; 1954-1957; Maison Salle - 1957-1959; 1959-1962.

Editorial Reviews

Doyle (English, U. of Victoria, BC) has written a detailed biography of the English poet, novelist, editor and translator which includes a critical appraisal of his major writings. Acidic paper. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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