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Richard Aldington
1892-1962
(Ричард Олдингтон)
Edward Godfree "Richard" Aldington [1892-1962]
English poet, editor, translator, novelist, biographer; his early avant garde
work attracted the attention of Ezra Pound, who introduced him to H. D. (Hilda
Doolittle); the three became the first "imagist" poets whose work was enormously
influential in the 1910s and 1920s; married H. D. in 1913 but separated in 1919
and later divorced; worked as secretary to Ford Maddox Ford; served in World War
I as a lieutenant until severely injured by poison gas, the effects of which combined
with "shell-shock" (post-traumatic stress syndrome) lingered throughout much of
his life; published highly successful novel Death of a Hero in 1929; became interested
in contemporary French and Italian poetry and published 30 volumes of translations,
in addition to 20 or so volumes of his own poetry; wrote a number of biographies
including those of Wellington, D. H. Lawrence, and Lawrence of Arabia, the latter
of which was highly controversial; edited The Viking Book of Poetry of the English-Speaking
World (1941); died during a tour of the Soviet Union
ПРОЩАЙ
Goodbye!
- COME, thrust your hands in the warm earth
- And feel her strength through all your veins;
- Breathe her full odors, taste her mouth,
- Which laughs away imagined pains;
- Touch her life's womb, yet know
- This substance makes your grave also.
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- Shrink not; your flesh is no more sweet
- Than flowers which daily blow and die;
- Nor are your mein and dress so neat,
- Nor half so pure your lucid eye;
- And, yet, by flowers and earth I swear
- You're neat and pure and sweet and fair.
© 2000 Elena and
Yacov Feldman