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Other influences were Aiken's grandfather, Potter, who had been a church preacher, as well as
Whitman's freestyle poetry. This helped Aiken shape his poetry more freely while his recognition of a God grounded his more visually rich explorations into the universe. Some of his best-known poetry, such
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William Ford and Anna (Potter) Aiken. In Savannah, Aiken's father became a respected physician and eye surgeon, while his mother was the daughter of a prominent Massachusetts Unitarian minister. For the first eleven years of Aiken's life, his family lived at 228
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334:, that Aiken revealed the emotional challenges that he had battled for much of his adult life. During the 1920s Freud heard of him and offered to psychoanalyze him. While aboard a Europe-bound ship to meet with Freud, Aiken was discouraged by
507:(1952), one of his major works. In it, he wrote candidly about his various affairs and marriages, his attempted suicide and fear of insanity, and his friendships with T. S. Eliot (who appears in the book as the Tsetse),
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404:"John Deth", inspired by Aiken's poem of that name and originally intended to illustrate a projected edition that was never realized. Nevertheless, the two men maintained a lifelong friendship thereafter.
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appeared in 1961), reviews, an autobiography, and poetry. He received numerous awards and honors for his writing, though for most of his lifetime, he received little public attention.
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Aiken had three younger siblings, Kempton Potter (K. P. A. Taylor), Robert Potter (R. P. A. Taylor), and
Elizabeth. After their parents' deaths, the four children were adopted by
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Named Poetry
Consultant (now U.S. Poet Laureate) of the Library of Congress from 1950 to 1952, Aiken earned numerous prestigious writing honors, including a
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He was married three times: firstly to Jessie McDonald (1912–1929); secondly to
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and his wife Louise, their great-aunt. His siblings took Taylor's last name. Kempton helped establish the
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had once lived). The couple's youngest daughter, Joan, was born in Rye in 1924. Conrad Aiken returned to
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A Reviewer's ABC: Collected
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Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress
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646:John Deth, A Metaphysical Legacy, and Other Poems
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1766:(1st ed.). Faber & Faber. p. 220.
478:Aiken died on 17 August 1973 and was buried in
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1764:Outline, an Autobiography: And Other Writings
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2074:Conrad Aiken's Grave in Savannah, Georgia
2054:An extensive collection of Aiken's poetry
835:Scepticisms: Notes on Contemporary Poetry
581:Turns and Movies and other Tales in Verse
1963:"Is it time to rediscover Conrad Aiken?"
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493:Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
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1888:Killorin, Joseph (October 26, 1992).
634:Priapus and the Pool, and Other Poems
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1815:Kingsley, Orson (October 24, 2016).
682:Brownstone Eclogues, and Other Poems
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946:"How the Partnership Was Dissolved"
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2064:LitWeb.net: Conrad Aiken Biography
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1961:Malone, Tyler (April 13, 2017).
1938:Reference Guide to Short Fiction
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3154:Burials at Bonaventure Cemetery
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1479:"The Night Before Prohibition"
1331:"Farewell! Farewell! Farewell!"
1213:Bring! Bring! and Other Stories
1181:Bring! Bring! and Other Stories
1114:Bring! Bring! and Other Stories
1046:"Me and Her" (with W.C. Greene)
759:Bring! Bring! and Other Stories
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537:Poetry Society of America (PSA)
419:in 1940. The Aikens settled in
3199:Writers from Savannah, Georgia
2133:Guides to Conrad Aiken's prose
2079:New Georgia Encyclopedia entry
2028:Works by or about Conrad Aiken
1732:Wilbur, Robert Hunter (1968).
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816:A Heart for the Gods of Mexico
588:The Jig of Forslin: A Symphony
377:, all of whom became writers.
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1914:"National Book Awards – 1954"
1890:"Obituary: Mary Hoover Aiken"
1274:"Your Obituary, Well Written"
728:Sheepfold Hill: Fifteen Poems
610:The House of Dust: A Symphony
384:(where the American novelist
326:, Ferenczi, Adler, and other
238:At Harvard, Aiken edited the
1825:Bridgewater State University
456:, England (once the home of
3179:National Book Award winners
3114:20th-century American poets
2043:(public domain audiobooks)
1693:. Academy of American Poets
1120:"Soliloquy on a Park Bench"
706:Skylight One: Fifteen Poems
546:, he was nominated for the
309:The Collected Short Stories
169:United States Poet Laureate
128:Jessie McDonald (1912–1929)
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2159:. Winter-Spring 1968 (42).
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1499:"Life Isn't a Short Story"
1484:"Pure as the Driven Snow"
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430:Over the years, he served
293:And In the Hanging Gardens
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1394:"No, No, Go Not to Lethe"
1368:"The Professor's Escape"
1353:"I Love You Very Dearly"
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1131:"The Escape from Fatuity"
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888:"The Making of the Trail"
548:Nobel Prize in Literature
266:Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
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1920:. Retrieved 2012-03-02.
1918:National Book Foundation
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1782:HarvardSquareLibrary.org
1629:The Atlanta Constitution
1440:Silent Snow, Secret Snow
1032:"By the Hermitage Walls"
628:The Pilgrimage of Festus
390:Cambridge, Massachusetts
352:Frederick Winslow Taylor
274:Silent Snow, Secret Snow
225:Cambridge, Massachusetts
3174:Middlesex School alumni
3164:Harvard Advocate alumni
3139:American Poets Laureate
3124:American male novelists
3119:20th-century Unitarians
2725:Edna St. Vincent Millay
2295:William Carlos Williams
1358:"A Man Alone at Lunch"
1235:"By My Troth, Nerisa!"
1004:"The Cat and the Mouse"
753:Short story collections
421:Brewster, Massachusetts
305:Helen Searles Westbrook
69:Savannah, Georgia, U.S.
2116:April 3, 2014, at the
1936:Riggs, Thomas (1999).
1845:David Markson (1978).
1489:"The Bachelor Supper"
676:And in the Human Heart
664:Landscape West of Eden
555:the Library of America
540:Shelley Memorial Award
519:Awards and recognition
486:, on the banks of the
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130:Clarissa Lorenz (1930)
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2761:Stephen Vincent Benét
2052:Poems by Conrad Aiken
2037:Works by Conrad Aiken
2019:Works by Conrad Aiken
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1504:North American Review
1472:Among the Lost People
1388:Among the Lost People
771:Among the Lost People
515:(Hambo), and others.
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1687:"About Conrad Aiken"
1540:The American Mercury
1468:"O How She Laughed!"
1324:The Harvard Advocate
1092:The Harvard Advocate
1078:The Harvard Advocate
1064:The Harvard Advocate
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1008:The Harvard Advocate
994:The Harvard Advocate
979:The Harvard Advocate
960:"The Fiddlers Three"
622:Priapus and the Pool
480:Bonaventure Cemetery
471:in Savannah, Georgia
469:Bonaventure Cemetery
3144:American Unitarians
3129:American male poets
2986:Frank Lebby Stanton
2821:John Gould Fletcher
2803:Robert P. T. Coffin
2639:Juan Felipe Herrera
2211:Library of Congress
1662:. Poetry Foundation
1553:"A Pair of Vikings"
1517:"Fly Away Ladybird"
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1187:"Strange Moonlight"
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874:"The Timid Burglar"
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688:The Soldier: A Poem
658:Preludes for Memnon
328:depth psychologists
165:National Book Award
157:Conrad Potter Aiken
41:Conrad Potter Aiken
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3018:Agnes C. Bramblett
3002:Wightman F. Melton
2839:William Rose Benét
2785:Archibald MacLeish
2463:Robert Penn Warren
2383:Josephine Jacobsen
2239:Robert Penn Warren
1427:"Bow Down, Isaac!"
1342:"Field of Flowers"
1240:"The Orange Moth"
1230:"The Anniversary"
1153:"White Crinolines"
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904:"My Lord's Pirate"
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1378:"The Fish Supper"
1363:"A Conversation"
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1320:"All, All Wasted"
1313:Harper's Magazine
1298:"The Woman-Hater"
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1158:Munsey's Magazine
1142:"Smith and Jones"
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1220:"Bring! Bring!"
1198:"The Last Visit"
1088:"College Kodaks"
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878:The Story Teller
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765:Costumes by Eros
573:Earth Triumphant
488:Wilmington River
433:in loco parentis
382:Rye, East Sussex
371:Jane Aiken Hodge
289:The Charnel Rose
285:Earth Triumphant
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