Richard Aldington is perhaps best remembered among students of early twentieth-century poetry as a central figure in the imagist movement. His three poems published in Poetry (Chicago) in November 1912 were the first to be identified with the imagists. Aldington and Hilda Doolittle (H. D.), whom he married in 1913, were central contributors to the anthologies of poetry representing this new movement, among them Des Imagistes (1914), compiled by Ezra Pound. Later, Aldington continued to represent the imagists in England, along with D. H. Lawrence and F. S. Flint, in the first three volumes of Amy Lowell's anthologies, Some Imagist Poets, published in 1915, 1916, and 1917. America was represented by H. D., John Gould Fletcher, and Lowell. Given Aldington's prominence in the most important poetic movement of the first half of this century, many critics have understandably paid little attention to his fiction. Nevertheless, Aldington did produce eight novels during a long and...