Richard Aldington , born Edward Godfree Aldington, was an English writer and poet.
Aldington was known best for his World War I poetry, the 1929 novel, Death of a Hero, and the controversy resulting from his 1955 Lawrence of Arabia: A Biographical Inquiry. His 1946 biography, Wellington, was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize.
“I dream of silent verses where the rhyme
Glides noiseless as an oar.”
From At the British Museum Collected Poems, 1929
The Colonel’s Daughter (1931) pt. 1, ch. 6
Modern Poetry and the Imagists in the Egoist, London 1914
