"TWO IMPRESSIONS" poem written by Richard Aldington (1892-1962)

"TWO IMPRESSIONS" was a poem written by Richard Aldington (1892-1962). This special reading by fellow poet Joseph A Pasquale (audio recording) as shared for educational purposes. Original Artwork: By Elliott & Fry. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Richard Aldington (born Edward Godfree Aldington; 8 July 1892 – 27 July 1962) was an English writer and poet. He was an early associate of the Imagist movement. His 50-year writing career covered poetry, novels, criticism and biography. He edited The Egoist, a literary journal, and wrote for The Times Literary Supplement, Vogue, The Criterion, and Poetry. His biography of Wellington (1946) won him the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Aldington died in Sury on 27 July 1962, shortly after being honoured in Moscow on the occasion of his 70th birthday and the translation of some of his novels to Russian. He was honored in the Soviet Union, "even if some of the fêting was probably because he had, in his writings, sometimes suggested that the England he loved could, in certain of its aspects, be less than an earthly paradise."Aldington was married to the poet Hilda Doolittle, known by her initials H.D., from 1911 to 1938. His contacts included writers T. S. Eliot, D. H. Lawrence, Ezra Pound, W. B. Yeats, Lawrence Durrell, C. P. Snow, and others. He championed H.D. as the major poetic voice of the Imagist movement and helped her work gain international notice.