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	Conrad Aiken - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Conrad Potter Aiken (August 5, 1889 – August 17, 1973) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American author, born in Savannah, Georgia, whose work includes poetry, short stories and novels.
		Aiken's tomb, located in Bonaventure Cemetery on the banks of the Savannah River, was made famous after its mention in Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, the bestselling book by John Berendt.
		According to local legend, Aiken wished to have his tombstone fashioned in the shape of a bench as an invitation to visitors to stop and enjoy a drink of Madeira at his grave.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Conrad_Aiken (290 words)

	AllRefer.com - Conrad Aiken (American Literature, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Aiken is best known for his poetry, which often is preoccupied with the sound and structure of music; his volumes of verse include The Charnel Rose (1918), Selected Poems (1929; Pulitzer Prize), Brownstone Eclogues (1942), Collected Poems (1953), A Letter from Li Po (1956), A Seizure of Limericks (1964), and The Clerk's Journal (1971).
		Aiken's interest in psychopathology is evident in the novels Blue Voyage (1927) and Great Circle (1933).
		Aiken held (1950–57) the poetry chair at the Library of Congress and was awarded the National Medal for Literature (1969).
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/A/Aiken-Co.html (258 words)

	New Georgia Encyclopedia: Conrad Aiken (1889-1973)
		Conrad Potter Aiken was born in Savannah, Georgia, on August 5, 1889, the eldest of four children of a prominent doctor from New York, William Aiken.
		This association shaped Aiken as a poet who was deeply musical in his approach and, at the same time, philosophical in seeking answers to his own problems and the problems of the modern world.
		Aiken remained private about his psychological problems, which grew largely out of the trauma of his parents' death.
	www.georgiaencyclopedia.org /nge/Article.jsp?id=h-454&pid=s-60 (1037 words)

	Georgia Writers Hall of Fame
		Conrad was taken into the Cambridge home of his aunt Grace Aiken Tillinghast and her Harvard librarian husband Will.
		Conrad Aiken came onstage as a modernist poet in 1914 at the opening of the "poetry renaissance" in England and America, at the same time as Pound and Eliot.
		Conrad Aiken's scope includes every paradox of his age and continent, from the delicacy of his poems of nature and love to the unrefined dross of the most disturbing and distasteful autobiography....
	www.libs.uga.edu /gawriters/aiken.html (1021 words)

	Conrad Aiken, 1899-1973. American author
		Aiken, though neglected today and largely unappreciated during his lifetime, is one of the most significant figures in the development of American Modernism.
		Aiken enrolled at Harvard in 1907, thus qualifying him as a member of one of the famous classes of 1910-1915 which included T.S. Eliot, E.E. Cummings, John Reed, Robert Benchley, and Walter Lippmann.
		Aiken's letters to Linscott document the progress of his work and often reflect Aiken's extreme frustration at his lack of popular success.
	library.wustl.edu /units/spec/manuscripts/mlc/aiken/aiken1.html (294 words)

	Encyclopedia: Conrad Aiken (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Its inscriptions read "Give my love to the world," and "Cosmos Marinerâ”Destination Unknown." Conrad Aikens tomb, located in Bonaventure Cemetery on the banks of the Savannah River, was made famous after its mention in Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, the bestselling book by John Berendt.
		Conrad Aikens tomb, located in Bonaventure Cemetery on the banks of the Savannah River, was made famous after its mention in Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, the bestselling book by John Berendt.
		Joan Delano Aiken (September 4, 1924–January 4, 2004) was an English novelist.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Conrad-Aiken (1128 words)

	CONRAD AIKEN: UNITARIAN PRODIGY POET
		Aiken was a member of the class of 1912, in the same era as Eliot, Walter Lippman, Van Wyck Brooks, and E. Cummings.
		Aiken's maternal grandfather, William James Potter, was the minister of the First Congregational Society (Unitarian), of New Bedford from 1859 to 1892.
		Conrad Aiken affirms the all too often hidden Heraclitean heritage of the American Unitarian faith: faith in the everliving cosmos which is our home, faith in reason as a way to reliable knowlege, and faith symbolized by sacred fire, such as that dancing in a flaming chalice.
	www.harvardsquarelibrary.org /unitarians/aiken.html (4354 words)

	Conrad Aiken -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Aiken himself faced considerable trauma in his childhood when he found the bodies of his parents after his father had killed his mother and committed...
		Aiken, the daughter of the American writer Conrad Aiken, was educated at home as a child and grew up with a love of literature.
		E-text of this collection of poems by Conrad Aiken, an American poet, short story writer, novelist, and critic whose works, influenced by early psychoanalytic theory, are concerned largely with the human need for self-awareness.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9004178?tocId=9004178 (654 words)

	Aiken.html
		Aiken refers to celebrating his successful move from England to South Dennis MA "with a fine salvo of dry martinis, sans ice" (238).
		In Savannah, one is apt to be told stories about its favorite literary lion, Conrad Aiken, who, for reasons that are never quite satisfactorily explained, is said to have enjoyed going with his wife to a cemetery and, in that odd setting, companionably drinking Martinis.
		Killorin was struck by this passage, which he quoted in the preface to Selected Letters with the comment: "Aiken assumed that the conversation of the cocktail hour represents the communion of all friendly minds separated in time and space" (xvi).
	www.rci.rutgers.edu /~edmunds/Aiken.html (642 words)

	USM de Grummond Collection - JOAN AIKEN PAPERS
		As a child, Aiken took solitary walks in the fields surrounding her parents' house and concocted stories to amuse herself; when her younger brother grew old enough to tag along, she invented more stories to tell him when he grew tired.
		Contributing to Aiken's imagination were the books her mother read to her from the family library; the works of Scott, Dickens, Tolstoy, Austen, the Brontes, Dumas, even Thurber and Twain made up a regular part of her intellectual diet.
		Aiken insisted that when writing, she never consciously chose a style for her audience; instead some "internal monitor" guided her, insuring that she never abandoned the strong sense of right and wrong that all children have and which appears in Aiken's stories.
	www.lib.usm.edu /~degrum/html/research/findaids/aiken.htm (895 words)

	Dr. Anne Simpson's Author and Literature Links: Conrad Aiken
		The Short Stories of Conrad Aiken was published in 1950; the autobiographical Ushant appeared in 1952; his Collected Novels was published in 1964; and Collected Criticism appeared in 1968.
		Aiken's work most consistently explores the difficulty in achieving a stable personal identity in a constantly changing world.
		In recognition of his literary achievement, Aiken held the Chair of Poetry of the Library of Congress from 1950 to 1952 and was awarded the Gold Medal for Poetry by the National Institute of Arts and Letters in 1958.
	www.csupomona.edu /~absimpson/links/authors/a/aikenc.html (262 words)

	[minstrels] Morning Song of Senlin -- Conrad Aiken
		The phrases are wonderful: "swiftly tilting planet..." Aiken isn't much known today, although his daughter Joan Aiken will be familiar to fantasy and children's fiction buffs for her wonderful eerie stories.
		Aiken himself faced considerable trauma in his childhood when he found the bodies of his parents after his father had killed his mother and committed suicide.
		The Short Stories of Conrad Aiken was published in 1950, followed by A Reviewer's ABC: Collected Criticism from 1916 to the Present (1958) and The Collected Novels (1964).
	www.cs.rice.edu /~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/525.html (1178 words)

	The Academy of American Poets - Conrad Aiken (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Conrad Potter Aiken was born in Savannah, Georgia, on August 5, 1889.
		Of the many influences Aiken acknowledged, the writings of Freud, William James, Edgar Allan Poe, and the French Symbolists are most evident in his work.
		Aiken's critical essays are compiled in A Reviewer's ABC (1958); his Collected Short Stories appeared in 1960.
	www.poets.org /poet.php/prmPID/751 (558 words)

	Aiken_Conrad_ga (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		When Aiken was a child his father killed his mother and then killed himself.
		Conrad Aiken was a poet and a novelist.
		These were just some of the many awards Conrad Aiken received for his poems, novels, and short stories.
	www.ncteamericancollection.org /litmap/aiken_conrad_ga.htm (154 words)

	Excursia \| Savannah, GA, USA \| Attractions: Remembering Conrad Aiken
		Conrad Aiken was born in Savannah in 1889, in what is today the Magnolia Place Inn on Forsyth Park.
		Stream of consciousness was, in Aiken's day, a new way of looking at human psychology, developed by Sigmund Freud, and, in both prose and poetry, Aiken explored the constant change of a person's existence.
		Aiken served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 1950 to 1952 and he is widely recognized as one of the most musical of America's modernist poets.
	bestreadguide.excursia.com /destinations/USA/GA/savannah/stories/20000817/att_conrad.shtml (507 words)

	LitWeb.net
		Aiken graduated in 1912, in the same era as Eliot, Walter Lippman, Van Wyck Brooks, and E.E. Cummings.
		During the First World War Aiken claimed that he was in an 'essential industry' because of being a poet, and was granted an exemption for this reason.
		Aiken's psychological penetrations and verbal richness never received the wide recognition they deserved in spite of the several awards the author received.
	www.biblion.com /litweb/biogs/aiken_conrad.html (892 words)

	Aiken - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		George Aiken, politician from the U.S. state of Vermont
		Joan Aiken, British novelist (daughter of Conrad Aiken)
		This is a disambiguation page—a list of articles associated with the same title.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Aiken (107 words)

	Bonaventure Cemetery - Savannah, Georgia
		Conrad Aiken was born in Savannah in 1889 and at age ten his father killed his mother and then committed suicide.
		Conrad Aiken was buried in Bonaventure Cemetery when he died in 1973.
		Aiken's tomb was made famous when it was mentioned in Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.
	www.garyscottthompson.com /bonaventure_cemetery.htm (491 words)

	Alibris: Conrad Aiken
		The only collection available of Conrad Aiken's award-winning poetry Poet, short story writer, critic and novelist, Conrad Aiken (1889-1973) has been called the most metaphysical, the most learned, and the most modern of poets.
		Aiken was generally agreed to be a brilliant craftsman who utilized subtle and complex imagery in poems that attempted searching examinations of himself and of the world--and, as Louis Untermeyer put it, "fusing the mundane with the mysterious."
		by Aiken, Conrad P. This series of symphony poems elucidate the fantasies of an everyday man, which involve prostitutes, vampires, and demons.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Aiken,Conrad (340 words)

	TomFolio.com: by Conrad Aiken (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The letters reflect Aiken in the variety of his interests and styles-- as strategist defending his literary forts, as psychologist in deate upon motive, as rueful or comic historian of personal disaster...” xxv, 350 p.; Vg/vg.
		Aiken, Conrad COSTUMES BY EROS Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons NY 1928.
		Nine poems: Conrad Aiken, Landscapes VIII; Frank Merchant, Autobiographia Literaria; J. Cunningham, The Dogmatic Sestina; Gerry, Intangibility; Anita Young, Lesbos; Young, Song for Harp and Flute; Philip Clark, To Herman Melville; Savila B. Harvey, To Edwin Arlington Robinson; Scott, This Was the Way.
	www.tomfolio.com /SearchAuthorTitle.asp?Aut=Conrad_Aiken (1044 words)

	News, Nov. 19: Naomi Campbell Sued, PETA Pokes Fun at Clay Aiken, Robert Conrad Gets DUI, More... :: Hollywood.com
		AP reports that Naomi Campbell is being sued by a former assistant who alleges that the British model attacked her two years ago in a Beverly Hills hotel.
		When Conrad failed to turn up on time for the preliminary hearing, a judge ordered that his lawyer find the former TV tough guy.
		Conrad later attributed his absence to physical therapy he has had to undergo.
	www.hollywood.com /news/detail/id/1733911 (1012 words)

	Amazon.com: Selected Poems.: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Aiken often has a tone reminiscent of the early Eliot and many of the poems in this volume (especially "Senlin...")are reminiscent of Profrock with an added vein of mysticism that is his link to Emerson, Thoreau, Melville and other purveyors of the American Sublime.
		But I must disagree with him on the subject of Aiken's eloquence, which he considers to be the fatal flaw separating Aiken from greater poets like Stevens and Crane.
		Aiken wrote at a time when there was still a bond between poet and audience and cultural inclusivity was attempted on a scale unimagineable today.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0195004701?v=glance (991 words)

	The Poetry of Conrad Aiken
		Aiken was born in Savannah, Georgia on August 5, 1889.
		Aiken was Consultant in Poetry at the Library of Congress (1950-52).
		In November 1969, at the age of 80, Conrad Aiken received the National Medal for Literature.
	www.wisdomportal.com /Dates/ConradAiken.html (1238 words)

	Conrad Aiken -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - Your gateway to all Britannica has to offer!
		Aiken was traumatized as a child when his father killed Aiken's mother and then himself.
		Educated at Harvard University, Aiken wrote most of his fiction in the 1920s and '30s.
		Conrad Hilton was born on Dec. 25, 1887, in San Antonio, N.M. He bought his first hotel in Cisco, Tex., in 1919 and soon bought others in Dallas, Fort Worth, and Waco.
	concise.britannica.com /ebc/article-9354785 (673 words)

	Conrad Aiken
		Conrad Aiken studied at Harvard, and made his name with his first collection of verse, Earth Triumphant (1914).
		His father killed his mother and committed suicide when Aiken was 11.
		Aiken visited Europe frequently and lived for several years (between 1916 and 1926) in England.
	iskrapentcheva.freeservers.com /Conaiken.htm (341 words)

	The New York Review of Books: BECOMING CONRAD AIKEN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Aiken, who always wrote too much verse too readily and had a terrible struggle to elude the noose of friend Eliot's contempt and precocious accomplishments, retarded his own poetic development by aping the successes of admired contemporaries, including Eliot, John Masefield, John Gould Fletcher, and Edgar Lee Masters.
		The symbolic lyric sequence, a series of reflexive allegories, marking Aiken's emergence as a powerful American modernist came in the spring of 1924, while he was in the grip of a serious depression.
		Freud and Nietzsche were undeniable American obsessions in the early decades of this century, and Aiken's tenacious Romantic introspection reflected a 1920's intellectual climate.
	www.nybooks.com /articles/3923 (788 words)

	Ken Lopez - Bookseller: Catalog 109, A
		At Harvard, Aiken was both president of the Advocate and class poet.
		With its publication having been by a university press, this is one of the scarcer Aiken titles from this period in his career.
		A review copy of this collection of 40 years of Aiken's reviews, with a preface by him and an additional section of essays on literature and criticism.
	www.lopezbooks.com /109/109-01.html (1363 words)

	Howard Hathaway Aiken -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Aiken and Redcliffe Plantation state parks are within its boundaries.
		A spirited Republican senator from Vermont, George Aiken spearheaded the food-stamp program, supported “liberal” farm policies such as crop price supports, and favored rural electrification and the construction of the St. Lawrence Seaway.
		George David Aiken was born on Aug. 20, 1892, in Dummerston, Vt. In 1934 he was elected lieutenant...
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9004179 (750 words)

	Locus Online: Joan Aiken interview
		Joan Delano Aiken was born September 4, 1924, daughter of the poet/writer Conrad Aiken.
		Aiken began as a writer of short fiction, works gathered in collections All You've Ever Wanted and Other Stories (1953) and More Than You Bargained For and Other Stories (1955); many further collections would appear in later years.
		She has received awards for children's fiction (the Guardian Award in 1969) and for mystery fiction (the Mystery Writers of America Poe Award, 1972), and has also written ''sequels'' to Jane Austen books, as well as other Regency historicals.
	www.locusmag.com /1998/Issues/05/Aiken.html (977 words)

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