Richard Aldington , born Edward Godfree Aldington, was an English writer and poet. Aldington was best known for his World War I poetry, the 1929 novel, Death of a Hero, and the controversy arising from his 1955 Lawrence of Arabia: A Biographical Inquiry. His 1946 biography, Wellington, was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Aldington was born in Portsmouth, the son of a solicitor, and educated at Dover College, and for a year at the University of London. He was unable to complete his degree because of the financial circumstances of his family. He met the poet H.D. in 1911 and they... married two years later. His poetry was associated with the Imagist group, and his poetry, forms almost one third of the Imagists' inaugural anthology Des Imagistes . Ezra Pound had in fact coined the term imagistes for H.D. and Aldington, in 1912. At this time, he was one of the poets around the proto-Imagist T. E.
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