Editing Richard Aldington (section)

==Style and bitterness==
[[Alec Waugh]] described Aldington as having been embittered by the war, but took it that he worked off his spleen in novels like ''The Colonel's Daughter'' (1931) rather than letting it poison his life.<ref>[[Alec Waugh]], ''The Early Years'' (1962), pp. 182, 193.</ref> [[Douglas Bush]] describes his work as "a career of disillusioned bitterness."<ref Name=PF/> His novels contained thinly veiled portraits of some of his friends, including Eliot, Lawrence and Pound; the friendship not always surviving. [[Lyndall Gordon]] characterises the sketch of Eliot in Aldington's memoirs ''[[Life for Life's Sake]]'' (1941) as "snide."<ref>[[Lyndall Gordon]], ''Eliot's Early Years'' (1977), p. 167. Aldington's discussion of Eliot is on pages 217-221 of ''Life for Life's Sake''.</ref> As a young man, he was cutting about Yeats, but they remained on good terms.

Aldington's obituary in ''The Times'' of London in 1962 described him as "[a]n [[Angry young men|angry young man]] of the generation before they became fashionable ... who remained something of an angry old man to the end".<ref>Peter Jones, ''Imagist Poetry'', Penguin Books, London 1972 {{ISBN|0-14-042147-5}}</ref>