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Richard Aldington

1892 - 1962

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Richard Aldington (born Edward Godfree Aldington; 8 July 1892 – 27 July 1962) was an English writer and poet. He was an early associate of the Imagist movement. His 50-year writing career covered poetry, novels, criticism and biography. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Richard Aldington has received more than 239,151 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia. Richard Aldington is the 2,214th most popular writer (down from 1,965th in 2019), the 1,718th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,521st in 2019) and the 189th most popular British Writer.

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  • 240k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 54.35

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  • 34

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.27

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.30

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Richard Aldington ranks 2,214 out of 5,755Before him are Wilhelm Worringer, Heinz G. Konsalik, Juan del Encina, Indro Montanelli, Wanda Wasilewska, and Malik Muhammad Jayasi. After him are Philo of Byblos, Sergei Nilus, Vasily Aksyonov, Margaret Fuller, Hermann Sudermann, and Émile Augier.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1892, Richard Aldington ranks 112Before him are Ivan Šubašić, Djuna Barnes, Chen Gongbo, Takeo Takagi, Mahidol Adulyadej, and George Mountbatten, 2nd Marquess of Milford Haven. After him are Herman Potočnik, Alfred Lunt, Rebecca West, Reiner Stahel, Karl Lennart Oesch, and Roberto Farinacci. Among people deceased in 1962, Richard Aldington ranks 73Before him are Albert Sarraut, Michel de Ghelderode, Hans von Salmuth, Louis Massignon, Princess Helena Adelaide of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, and Erich von Tschermak. After him are Enrico Mattei, Mouloud Feraoun, Wilhelm Ohnesorge, Sükhbaataryn Yanjmaa, Candido Portinari, and Karl Rapp.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Richard Aldington ranks 1,718 out of 7,765Before him are William Murdoch (1754), John Kemp Starley (1854), Miranda Richardson (1958), Phil Jones (1992), Geoff Hurst (1941), and James Finlayson (1887). After him are Peter Vaughan (1923), Marie Stopes (1880), Robert Morrison (1782), J. Lee Thompson (1914), Dixie Dean (1907), and Princess Augusta Sophia of the United Kingdom (1768).

Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Richard Aldington ranks 189Before him are Christopher Robin Milne (1920), Edward Young (1683), Edwin Abbott Abbott (1838), Irvine Welsh (1957), Matthew Arnold (1822), and Kenneth Grahame (1859). After him are Tobias Smollett (1721), Robert Southey (1774), Noël Coward (1899), Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806), John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester (1647), and Rebecca West (1892).