Richard Aldington

Early life
Aldington was born in Portsmouth the son of a solicitor and educated at Dover College and for a year at the University of London. Opening with a letter to the playwright Halcott Glover the book takes a variable but generally satirical cynical and critical posture and belabours Victorian and Edwardian cant. The Religion of Beauty: Selections from the Aesthetes (1950) anthology editor
Ezra Pound and T.

Richard Aldington (8 July 1892 – 27 July 1962) born Edward Godfree Aldington was an English writer and poet. Aldington was best known for his World War I poetry the 1929 novel Death of a Hero and the controversy arising from his 1955 Lawrence of Arabia: A Biographical Inquiry.