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Conrad Aiken was born in Savannah, GA, but, after the death of both parents in a tragic murder-suicide, Aiken was raised by a distant aunt in New England. He graduated Harvard in 1912. In 1914 when he was 25, Aiken’s first collection of poetry, Earth Triumphant, was published.
Conrad Aiken. Conrad Potter Aiken was born in Savannah August 5, 1889 and died there August 17, 1973. His father William Ford Aiken was a physician in eye and ear diseases from New York City. His mother Anna Aiken Potter Aiken was the daughter of the renowned Unitarian preacher William James Potter of New Bedford, Massachusetts.
25 de mai. de 2017 · May 25, 2017. The following essay appears in the latest issue of The Scofield, dedicated to the writing of Conrad Aiken. In a series of lectures presented between 1915-1917, Freud famously includes psychoanalysis among the three “great outrages upon [humanity’s] self-love.”. The first two attacks upon these “narcissistic illnesses ...
13 de abr. de 2017 · While Aiken was still alive, Malcolm Cowley, in a 1952 issue of “Wake,” speculated that “the discovery — one can hardly call it rediscovery — of Conrad Aiken is coming soon.”. In his ...
23 de out. de 2021 · Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Conrad Aiken was born in 1889, the eldest of four children born to wealthy parents Dr. and Mrs. William Ford Aiken. The family lived in this house at 228 East Oglethorpe Avenue in Savannah, Georgia, where sadly the parents constantly argued. Anna Potter Aiken was a socialite who liked to spend money, and the doctor ...
Some people say that pain is necessary (‘they learn in suffering’ etc ), perhaps others that happiness is. (to Conrad Aiken, 19 July 1914) American poet and critic. Though he and Eliot were a year apart at Harvard, they became close friends, and fellow editors of The Harvard Advocate. Aiken contributed a witty memoir, ‘King Bolo and ...
Conrad Potter Aiken He is remembered today primarily for his poetry, which earned him the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the Bollingen Prize in Poetry. He served as Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress—a precursor to the modern United States Poet Laureate—from 1950 to 1952.
