Richard Aldington

American ed. (New York, Duell, Sloan and Pearce) has title: D. H. Lawrence, portrait of a genius, but ... Includes bibliographical references: (p. 355-356).

Novel of Georgina Smithers, a repressed daughter of a retired English colonel, whose love affairs and pathos are representative of her post-war generation. The book is full of biting satire about sham gentility.

For the first time all the war poems of Richard Aldington have been brought together. This collection is intended to reaffirm Aldington's position as a significant voice in the literature of the First World War.

"From 1782 to 1865 there lived, mainly at Walton Hall in the county of Yorkshire in England, a man whose name was Charles Waterton. He was the Last Great Eccentric. Squire Waterton was also a farmer, a naturalist, and such a traveler as only an Englishman can be. His whole life made a pattern of odd adventure, some of whose highlights were his encounters with a boa constrictor, which he disposed of by a punch to the jaw; with a crocodile, which he rode up and down the Essequibo River; and with an unfortunate donkey. which he first poisoned experimentally with curare and then revived by means of a bellows..." -- Book Jacket.