Richard Aldington: A Biography

419 Pages·1989·51.24 MB·English

by  Charles Doyle (auth.)

RICHARD ALDINGTON: A BIOGRAPHY
Also by Charles Doyle
JAMES K. BAXTER
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS: THE CRITICAL HERITAGE
(editor)
*WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS AND THE AMERICAN POEM
WALLACE STEVENS: THE CRITICAL HERITAGE (editor)
*Also published by PalgraveMacmillan
Richard Aldington:
A Biography
CHARLES DOYLE
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Doyle, Charles, 1928-
Richard Aldington:a biography.
1.Englishliterature.Aldington, Richard,
1892-1962
I. Title
828'.91209
ISI3N978-1-349-10226-6 ISBN 978-1-349-10224-2 (eBook)
DOI 10.1007/978-1-349-10224-2
To Alister Kershaw
Contents
ListofIllustrations ix
Acknowledgements
Xl
Introduction xiii
1 Chrysalis,1892-1911 1
2 PoundandH.D.,1912-13 13
3 Egoists,1914 26
4 Images,LostandFound,1915-16 38
5 War, 1916-18 54
6 Aftermaths,1919-20 68
7 Malthouse Cottage: Working at the Writer's Trade,
1921-25 77
8 MalthouseCottage:Eliot,1919-27 90
9 MalthouseCottage:TheLate1920s,1926-28 106
10 Port-CrosandAfter,1928-29 119
11 ACareerasaNovelist,1929-31 138
12 1931-33 151
13 1933--36 164
14 1937-38 177
15 FarewelltoEurope,1939-40 191
16 1941-42 206
17 1943--46 215
18 1946-50 230
19 1950-54 245
20 TheT.E.LawrenceAffair,1950-55 261
21 1954-57 275
vii
viii Contents
22 MaisonSalle,1957-59 289
23 1959-61 300
24 1962 313
Notes 326
Bibliography 355
Index 370
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List of Illustrations
1. Richard Aldington in 1905. (Estate ofMargeryLyon Gilbert.)
2. Richard Aldington aged 19, 1911. (Morris Library, Southern
Illinois University.)
3. Hilda Doolittle (H.D.) in 1913. (Beinecke Library, Yale
University.)
4. A group of fellow-poets visit Wilfred Scawen Blunt, January
1914. (Courtesy of the Rt. Hon. Earl of Lytton, aBE.)
5. AmultiplephotographofDorothy(Arabella)Yorke. (Estateof
Professor Alfred Satterthwaite.)
6. Richard Aldington as an army officer, 1918. (Beinecke
Library.)
7. D. H. Lawrence's portrait painting of Dorothy Yorke.
(Beinecke Library.)
8. BrigitPatmore as ayoung woman. (Estate ofProfessorAlfred
Satterthwaite.)
9. Osbert Sitwell and Richard Aldington in the gardens at
Montegufoni. (Morris Library.)
10. Richard Aldington, by Man Ray, late 1920s. (Beinecke
Library.)
11. Richard Aldington, photograph takenfor aHarrod's window
displayin thelate 1920s.(VaughanandFreemanphoto. Estate
of Margery Lyon Gilbert.)
12. Richard Aldington (photograph by Madam Yevonde).
According to Brigit Patmore, this was taken shortly after
publication of Deathof aHeroin 1929.
13. Aldington and Brigit Patmore in the South of France, early
1930s. (From Brigit Patmore's My Friends When Young.)
14. Richard and Netta Aldington in the late 1930s. (Courtesy of
Catherine Aldington Guillaume.)
15. Richard and Netta Aldington in the early 1940s. (Beinecke
Library.)
16. Henry Williamson and Alister Kershaw, 1949. (Courtesy of
Alister Kershaw.)
17. Aldington in Montpellier, 1955. (Courtesy of F.-J. Temple.)
18. H.D. in 1956. (Beinecke Library.)
19. Richard Aldington, Lawrence Durrell, Henry Miller and
Jacques Temple. (Courtesy of F.-J. Temple.)
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20. AldingtonwithhisdaughterCatherineinLeningrad,lateJune
1962. (Courtesy of Catherine Aldington Guillaume.)
21. AldingtonandCatherineinthegardensofPetrodvorets,1962.
(Courtesy of Catherine Aldington Guillaume.)
22. Aldington broadcastingin Russia, 1962.(Courtesyof Cather
ine Aldington Guillaume.)
23. At Valentin Kataev's dacha, at Peredelkino near Moscow.
Kataev is on the left, Aldington next to him, Catherine in the
centre. (Courtesy of Catherine Aldington Guillaume.)
24. Aldingtonwithagroupofhis MaisonSalle neighbours,1962.
(Courtesy of Catherine Aldington Guillaume.)