Word: aldington
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hollywood, Christopher Isherwood, Auden's old friend and collaborator, was at work last week on a scenario for Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur. Richard Aldington, who came to his conclusions about war ten years ago (Death of a Hero), left the Riviera last February to settle in the U. S., summered in Peace Dale, R. I., and last week was in Manhattan...
Full Circle REJECTED GUEST-Richard Aldington -Viking...
Against World War I and the world that put up with it, Poet Richard Aldington has nursed one of the most protracted literary angers of his time. Like other English writers who fought and survived, he was unable to bring his mind fully to bear on his war experience until years afterward. His first novel, Death of a Hero, was written in one grim satiric gust in 1928. Ever since then, in novel after novel, Aldington has pointed the contrast he sees between the hope of a good life and literature which animated his generation, and the fog of death...
Rejected Guest is at once a cracking, to-hell-with-it summary of Aldington's grievances and a fable which brings the wheel full circle, from war to war. Its hero is a "War baby," the by-blow of a high-minded 1914 romance between an aristocratic infantry subaltern (later killed) and the belle of a small industrial town. Brought up by his maternal grandparents after his shamed mother leaves town, little David finds out what he is when he is knocked down, kicked and called a bastard on his first day at school. When...
...Italian prince. None of it is more interesting than the implication of the book itself: that the pre-1914 ideals of scientific truth and romantic honor, handed on to David in his father's good English blood, made him an unwelcome guest in the period between wars. Richard Aldington's bright, reckless style has improved since Death of a Hero, his epigrams are neater (though subject to an appalling tendency to show off his Greek), but his grasp of real experience is weaker...