Richard Aldington (Critical Survey of Long Fiction)

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Richard Aldington was one of the principal imagist poets. His imagist poems each render one impression of a scene, and most of them are short. “Whitechapel,” which is frequently anthologized, evokes the sounds and sights of a particular section of London. His poems were collected in small volumes, including Images (1915) and Images of War (1919), among many others. The full range of his poetic skills can be seen in The Complete Poems of Richard Aldington (1948).

Aldington conceived masterfully ironic short stories. Set in...

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