Literature of the Lost Generation. Richard Aldington his life and work. Death of a Hero. Plan: Introduction 3

Literature of the Lost Generation. Richard Aldington his life and work. Death of a Hero.
Plan:
Introduction 3
Chapter 1. Richard Aldington (born Edward Godfree Aldington 5
1.1 Early life and marriage 5
1.2 First World War and aftermath 7
Chapter 2. Aldington went into self-imposed exile in 1928. 10
2.1 Aldington's excoriating biography of T. E. Lawrence caused a scandal on its publication in 1955 11
2.2 Aldington's obituary in The Times of London in 1962 12
Conclusion 18
List of literature 19



Introduction
The poets were caught up in the literary ferment before the war, where new politics and ideas were passionately discussed and created in Soho tearooms and society salons. The couple bonded over their visions of new forms of poetry, feminism, and philosophy, emerging from the wake of staid Victorian mores. The couple were fed by a sense of peership and mutualism between them, rejecting hierarchies, beginning to view Pound as an intruder and interloper rather than a literary igniter.
The couple met influential American poet Amy Lowell and she introduced them to writer D. H. Lawrence in 1914, who would become a close friend and mentor to both.
Aldington's poetry was associated with the Imagist group, championing minimalist free verse with stark images, seeking to banish Victorian moralism. The group was key in the emerging Modernist movement.^[1][4] Ezra Pound coined the term imagistes for H. D. and Aldington (1912).^[1][8] Aldington's poetry forms almost one third of the Imagists' inaugural anthology Des Imagistes (1914). The movement was heavily inspired by Japanese and classical European art.^[4][9] Aldington shared T. E. Hulme's conviction that experimentation with traditional Japanese verse forms could provide a way forward for avant-garde literature in English.
Pound sent three of Aldington's poems to Harriet Monroe's magazine Poetry and they appeared in November 1912. She notes "Mr Richard Aldington is a young English poet, one of the "Imagistes", a group of ardent Hellenists who are pursuing interesting experiments in vers libre."^[11]She considered the poem "Choricos" to be his finest work, "one of the most beautiful death songs in the language"^[12] "a poem of studied and affected gravity".^[11][13]
H.D. became pregnant in August 1914, and in 1915 Aldington and H.D. relocated from their home in Holland Park near Ezra Pound to Hampstead close to D. H. Lawrence and Frieda.^[14] They felt calmer out of the bustle of the city, with more space and green. The pregnancy ended in a stillborn daughter, which traumatised the couple and put a great strain on the relationship; H.D. was 28 and Aldington 22. The outbreak of war in 1914 deeply disturbed Aldington, though no draft was in place at this time. H.D. felt more distant from the melee, not having a close affinity to the European landscape, geographical or political. This rift also put pressure on the marriage. Unhappy, Aldington dreamed of escape to America and began to have affairs.^[2][1] He began a relationship with Florence Fallas, who had also lost a child