An Imagist at War - The Complete War Poems of Richard Aldington (Hardcover)

This collection brings together for the first time all the war poems of Richard Aldington. The collection is intended to reaffirm Aldington's position as an important voice in the literature of the First World War. Of the ninety-six poems in the collection, forty-four form the carefully structured sequence of poems that go to make up Aldington's Images of war, published in 1919. These are preceded by seven Early Poems, and followed by twenty-four Additional Poems, and seventeen Prose Poems. Finally, extracts from four longer poems are included. A substantial Introduction includes the following subsections: "War Literature: the Boom Years, " "Death of a Hero, " "Roads to Glory, " "Publishing the War Poems, " "Aldington's War Service, " "Aldington and H.D., " and "Aldington and Imagism." Each of the five groups of poems is preceded by a short introduction containing analyses of and comments upon some of the key poems so as to bring out the qualities and concerns of Aldington's war verse. The book concludes.with a Select Bibliography.