Richard Aldington was an English writer and poet. He was an early associate of the Imagist movement. His 50-year writing career covered poetry, novels, criticism and biography. He edited The Egoist, a literary journal, and wrote for The Times Literary Supplement, Vogue, The Criterion, and Poetry. His biography, Wellington (1946), won him the James Tait Black Memorial Prize.
Aldington in 1931
H.D. in 1917
Valentine Dobrée 1919
Imagism was a movement in early-20th-century poetry that favored precision of imagery and clear, sharp language. It is considered to be the first organized modernist literary movement in the English language. Imagism has been termed "a succession of creative moments" rather than a continuous or sustained period of development. The French academic René Taupin remarked that "it is more accurate to consider Imagism not as a doctrine, nor even as a poetic school, but as the association of a few poets who were for a certain time in agreement on a small number of important principles".
The expatriate American poet Ezra Pound in 1913; Pound collected poems from eleven poets in his first anthology of Imagist poetry, Des Imagistes, published in 1914.
H.D. in 1917
Richard Aldington in 1931
The American Imagist Amy Lowell, who edited later volumes of Some Imagist Poets; in 1925, Lowell was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
