Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes his own prison.

Writer and Poet                          

Selected Works:

Images - 1910-1915 - 1915 - as Images - Old and New - 1916 
The Poems of Anyte of Tegea - 1916- translator
Images of Desire - Elkin Mathews, 1919
Images of War - 1919
War and Love: Poems 1915-1918 - 1919
Greek Songs in the Manner of Anacreon - 1919 translator
A Book of 'Characters' from Theophrastus, Joseph Hall, Sir Thomas Overbury, Nicolas Breton, John Earle
Hymen - 1921 - with H. D.
Medallions in Clay - 1921
The Good-Humoured Ladies: A Comedy by Carlo Goldoni - 1922 - translator, with Arthur Symons
Exile and other poems - 1923
Literary Studies and Reviews - 1924 - essays
Sturly by Pierre Custot - 1924 - translator
The Mystery of the Nativity: Translated from the Liegeois of the XVth Century - Medici Society, 1924 - translator
A Fool I' the Forest: A Phantasmagoria - 1924 - poem
Voltaire - 1925
French Studies and Reviews - 1926
The Love of Myrrhine and Konallis: and other prose poems - 1926
Cyrano De Bergerac, Voyages to the Moon and the Sun - 1927
D. H. Lawrence: An Indiscretion - 1927
Letters of Madame De Sevigné - 1927 - translator
Letters Of Voltaire And Frederick The Great - 1927 - translator
Candide and Other Romances by Voltaire - 1928 - translator with Norman Tealby
Collected Poems - 1928
Fifty Romance Lyric Poems - 1928 - translator
Rémy De Gourmont: Selections. - 1928 - translator
Death of a Hero: A Novel - 1929
The Eaten Heart - 1929 - poems
A Dream in the Luxembourg: A Poem - 1930
The Memoirs and Correspondence of Mme. D'Epinay - 1930 translator
Euripedes' Alcestis - 1930 - translator
At All Costs - 1930
D. H. Lawrence: A Brief and Inevitably Fragmentary Impression - 1930
Last Straws - 1930
Medallions from Anyte of Tegea, Meleager of Gadara, the Anacreontea, Latin Poets of the Renaissance - 1930 - translator
The Memoirs of Marmontel - 1930 - editor, with Brigit Patmore
Roads to Glory - 1930 - stories
Tales from the Decameron - 1930 - translator
Two Stories - Elkin Mathews, 1930
Letters to the Amazon by Rémy de Gourmont - 1931 - translator
Balls and Another Book for Suppression - 1931
The Colonel's Daughter: A Novel - 1931
Stepping Heavenward: A Record - 1931 - satire aimed at T. S. Eliot
Aurelia by Gérard de Nerval - 1932 - translator
Soft Answers - 1932 - five short novels
All Men Are Enemies: A Romance - 1933
Last Poems of D. H. Lawrence - 1933 - edited with Giuseppe Orioli
Poems of Richard Aldington - 1934
Women Must Work: A Novel - 1934
Artifex: Sketches And Ideas - 1935 - essays
D. H. Lawrence - 1935
The Spirit of Place - 1935 - , editor, D. H. Lawrence prose anthology
Life Quest - 1935 - poem
Life of a Lady: A Play in Three Acts - 1936 - with Derek Patmore
The Crystal World - 1937
Very Heaven - 1937
Seven Against Reeves: A Comedy-Farce - 1938 - novel
Rejected Guest - 1939 - novel
W. Somerset Maugham; An Appreciation - 1939
Life for Life's Sake: Memories Of A Vanished England & A Changing World, By One Who Was Bohemian, Poet, Soldier, Novelist & Wanderer - 1941 - memoir
Poetry of the English-Speaking World - 1941 - anthology, editor
A Wreath For San Gemignano - 1945 - sonnets of Folgore da San Gemignano
A Life of Wellington: The Duke - 1946
Great French Romances - 1946 - novels by Madame De Lafayette, Choderlos De Laclos, the Abbe Prévost, Honoré de Balzac
Oscar Wilde Selected Works - 1946 - editor
The Romance of Casanova: A Novel - 1946
Complete Poems - 1948
Four English Portraits 1801-1851 - 1948
Selected Works of Walter Pater - 1948
Jane Austen - 1948
Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio - two volumes - 1949 - translator
The Strange Life of Charles Waterton 1782-1865 - 1949
A Bibliography of the Works of Richard Aldington from 1915 to 1948 - 1950 - with Alister Kershaw
Selected Letters of D. H. Lawrence - 1950 - editor
An Appreciation: D. H. Lawrence 1885 – 1930 - 1950 - also as D. H. Lawrence Portrait of a Genius But...
The Religion of Beauty: Selections From The Aesthetes - 1950 - anthology, editor
Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot, A Lecture - 1954
Lawrence L'Imposteur: T.E. Lawrence, The Legend and the Man - 1954 - Paris edition, later title Lawrence of Arabia, A Biographical Enquiry - 1955
Pinorman: Personal Recollections of Norman Douglas, Pino Orioli & Charles Prentice - 1954
A. E. Housman & W. B. Yeats: Two Lectures - 1955
Introduction to Mistral - 1956
Frauds - 1957
Portrait of a Rebel: The Life and Work of Robert Louis Stevenson - 1957
The Viking Book of Poetry of the English-Speaking World Volume II - 1958 - editor
Larousse Encyclopedia of Mythology - 1960 - translator with Delano Ames
Switzerland - 1960
Famous Cities of the World: Rome - 1960
A Tourist's Rome
Richard Aldington: Selected Critical Writing, 1928-1960 - 1970 edited by Alister Kershaw
A Passionate Prodigality: Letters to Alan Bird from Richard Aldington, 1949-1962 - 1975 - edited by Miriam J. Benkovitz
Literary Lifelines: The Richard Aldington and Lawrence Durrell Correspondence - 1981
In Winter: A Poem - 1987
Austria
France
Italy                          

He began to write biographies, the first being that of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington. It was followed by D. H. Lawrence, Robert Louis Stevenson and T. E. Lawrence. This last was very controversial, as it was highly critical of the man still regarded as a war hero. Aldington died in France.