Richard Aldington's Modernist Antiquity - Classics, Imagism, and the Great War

This book examines the work of Richard Aldington, a poet, war poet, novelist, essayist, literary critic, and translator who was a central figure in London literary culture of the 1910s and 1920s. It focuses on Aldington's classical receptions--that is, his use of images, themes, and topics from Classical Greek and Roman literature.