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An Imagist at War: The Complete War Poems of Richard Aldington edited by Michael Copp, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2002 |
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Richard Aldington and H.D.: their lives in letters, 1918-1961 edited by Caroline Zilboorg, Manchester University Press, 2003 |
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The Verse Revolutionaries: Ezra Pound, H.D. and the Imagists, Helen Carr, Jonathan Cape, 2009. This is a lively and fascinating group biography of the Imagists, that turbulent and colourful group of poets, British and American, male and female, who came together in London in the years before the First World War. |
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The text of the new Penguin Classics edition of Death of a Hero is the (expurgated) text published in 1929. If you would like to read the much rawer, unexpurgated version, try to get hold of this 1985 Hogarth Press edition. |
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Exile and Other Poems was the collection Aldington published in 1923 and contains the poems in which he addressed the emotional trauma he experienced in the aftermath of the war . This is a new edition, edited by Vivien Whelpton and Elizabeth Vandiver and published by Renard Press in 2023. |
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Apart from his pre-war Images, the wartime Images of War and Images of Love, and Exile and Other Poems, Aldington wrote several long poems, three of them before 1930. Taken as a whole, the body of work illuminates not only his life and thought, but also each of his intense relationships with women. |
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The Winter of the World: poems of the Great War, edited by Dominic Hibberd and John Onions. If you only buy one anthology of First World War poetry, make it this one. Arranged by year rather than by poet, it reveals how poetry developed between 1914 and 1918, and afterwards from 1919 – 1930 so that the book as a whole forms a fascinating, moving narrative. |
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First published in 1925, and frequently compared to T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land, A Fool i’ the Forest is Aldington’s expression of his ongoing struggles with overcoming the trauma of military service in the First World War. Taking its title from Shakespeare’s As You Like It, A Fool surveys three aspects of one character – ‘I’, Mezzetin and the Conjuror – as they struggle, and ultimately fail, to find a way to reconcile their differences and live with one another. This is a new edition, edited by Michael Copp and Elizabeth Vandiver and published by Renard Press in 2025 |