Medallions in Clay

This collection of poems by the British poet Richard Aldington and his wife, the classicist Alice Maynard, is a tour de force of classical imagery and modernist sensibility. Inspired by the ancient Greek tradition of carved medallions, the poems explore themes of love, death, and the fragility of human existence. An essential work of modernist poetry.

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