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unusual facts about Richard Aldington


Sury-en-Vaux

The English poet, author and biographer Richard Aldington lived in Sury-en-Vaux from 1958 until his death in 1962.


H.D.

The early models for the Imagist group were from Japan, and H.D. often visited the exclusive Print Room at the British Museum in the company of Richard Aldington and the curator and poet Laurence Binyon in order to examine Nishiki-e prints that incorporated traditional Japanese verse.

Poetry Bookshop

Among the works published by the Poetry Bookshop were collections by Charlotte Mew and Richard Aldington and the Georgian Poetry series as well as Ezra Pound's seminal 1914 anthology Des Imagistes.


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