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EncyclopediaAiken, ConradAiken, Conrad (ā'kin) [key], 1889–1973, American author, b. Savannah, Ga., grad. Harvard, 1912. 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). In 1924 he edited Emily Dickinson's Selected Poems, which established her literary reputation. Aiken's interest in psychopathology is evident in the novels Blue Voyage (1927) and Great Circle (1933). His collected critical essays, A Reviewer's ABC, appeared in 1958, his collected short stories—including “Mr. Arcularis” and “Silent Snow, Secret Snow”—in 1961. Aiken held (1950–57) the poetry chair at the Library of Congress and was awarded the National Medal for Literature (1969). See his autobiography, Ushant (1952, repr. 1971); biography by J. Martin (1962). The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th ed. Copyright © 2007, Columbia University Press. All rights reserved. More on Conrad Aiken from Infoplease:
- Conrad Aiken: Music I heard - Music I heard with you was more than music, And bread I broke with you was more than bread; Now that I am without you, all is desolate; All that was o
- Conrad Aiken: Evening Song of Senlin - It is moonlight. Alone in the silence I ascend my stairs once more, While waves, remote in a pale blue starlight, Crash on a white sand shore. It is m
- Conrad Aiken: Morning Song of Senlin - It is morning, Senlin says, and in the morning When the light drips through the shutters like the dew, I arise, I face the sunrise, And do the things
- 1954 National Book Awards - 1954 National Book Awards Fiction The Adventures of Augie March, Saul Bellow Nonfiction A Stillness ...
- Aiken, Conrad - Born at Savannah, Ga., Aug. 5, 1889. Received the degree of A.B. from Harvard University in 1912 and in August of the same year married Miss Jessie Mc
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