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Conrad Aiken (1889–1973)

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Conrad Potter Aiken was born on August 5, 1889 in Savannah, Georgia. He attended Middlesex School in Concord, Massachusetts, where he edited the school newspaper, played baseball, and won a tennis doubles championship. In 1907, he entered Harvard University and became friends with T.S. Eliot. näytä lisää Knowing he was destined to be a poet from an early age, Aiken is paradoxically regarded by some critics as both a dazzling craftsman and by others as being long-winded and vague. However, many critics feel that he was central to American literature, a "literary period in himself." Aiken is perhaps best known for his 1930 Pulitzer Prize-winning book Selected Poems (1929), but he regarded the poem "Ushant" as his most satisfying work. In almost all of Aiken's works, his overriding concern has been to resolve what might be called a personal identity crisis in terms of the cosmic evolution of consciousness and one's relationship to the world at large. In the 1920s Aiken turned to short story writing to supplement his income. Overall, he published more than 50 titles, including 35 collections of poetry, five novels, one autobiographical essay, and several collections of short stories and criticism. Conrad Aiken died on August 17, 1973 at the age of 84. (Bowker Author Biography) näytä vähemmän
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Tekijän teokset

Selected Poems (1961) 159 kappaletta
A Comprehensive Anthology of American Poetry (1929) — Toimittaja — 128 kappaletta
Twentieth-Century American Poetry (1777) — Editor, Preface & Contributor — 96 kappaletta
An Anthology of Famous English and American Poetry (1944) — Toimittaja — 85 kappaletta
Collected poems (1953) 45 kappaletta
Ushant: An Essay (1952) 43 kappaletta
Silent Snow, Secret Snow {story} (1934) 31 kappaletta
Modern American Poets (1927) — Toimittaja — 29 kappaletta
The House of Dust: A Symphony (1920) 24 kappaletta
Blue Voyage (1927) 24 kappaletta
Selected Letters of Conrad Aiken (1978) 20 kappaletta
A Seizure of Limericks (1964) 19 kappaletta
Thee (1967) 17 kappaletta
Great Circle (1933) 17 kappaletta
A Heart for the Gods of Mexico (1976) 13 kappaletta
Preludes (1966) 13 kappaletta
Brownstone Eclogues (1942) 13 kappaletta
King Coffin (1935) 12 kappaletta
The Kid (1947) 12 kappaletta
Skylight one, fifteen poems (1949) 11 kappaletta
The soldier : a poem (1944) 9 kappaletta
Preludes for Memnon (1931) 8 kappaletta
Bring! bring! and other stories (1925) 6 kappaletta
The Jig of Forslin: A Symphony (2007) 6 kappaletta
Mr. Arcularis {play} (1957) 6 kappaletta
Earth Triumphant (2009) 5 kappaletta
The Divine Pilgrim (1949) 5 kappaletta
Among the lost people (1934) 5 kappaletta
Time in the rock (1936) 4 kappaletta
Sheepfold Hill: Fifteen Poems (1958) 4 kappaletta
Gehenna (1977) 4 kappaletta
Costumes by Eros (1928) 4 kappaletta
SCEPTICISMS (1919) 3 kappaletta
Impulse 3 kappaletta
Mr. Arcularis {story} 2 kappaletta
Fremder Mond (1989) 2 kappaletta
Senlin : a biography 2 kappaletta
Ein Platz, den Mond zu sehen (1997) 2 kappaletta
La derniere visite (2023) 1 kappale
“Impulse” 1 kappale
La vita non è un racconto (1964) 1 kappale
The Room [poem] 1 kappale
Sea Holly [poem] 1 kappale

Associated Works

Short Story Masterpieces (1954) — Avustaja — 675 kappaletta
Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural (1944) — Avustaja — 637 kappaletta
Great American Short Stories (1957) — Avustaja — 493 kappaletta
A Pocket Book of Modern Verse (1954) — Avustaja, eräät painokset443 kappaletta
Fifty Great American Short Stories (1965) — Avustaja — 430 kappaletta
The Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson [Modern Library Classics] (1924) — Johdanto, eräät painokset394 kappaletta
A Treasury of Short Stories (1947) — Avustaja — 291 kappaletta
The Faber Book of Modern Verse (1936) — Avustaja, eräät painokset284 kappaletta
The 40s: The Story of a Decade (2014) — Avustaja — 275 kappaletta
The Treasury of American Short Stories (1981) — Avustaja — 267 kappaletta
Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson [Edited by Conrad Aiken] (1993) — Toimittaja — 228 kappaletta
This Is My Best (1942) — Avustaja — 186 kappaletta
American Religious Poems: An Anthology (2006) — Avustaja — 162 kappaletta
Vampires, Wine, and Roses (1997) — Avustaja — 155 kappaletta
Black Water 2: More Tales of the Fantastic (1990) — Avustaja — 152 kappaletta
An Anthology of Famous American Stories (1953) — Avustaja — 137 kappaletta
Poets of World War II (2003) — Avustaja — 133 kappaletta
The Standard Book of British and American Verse (1932) — Avustaja — 114 kappaletta
American Fantastic Tales: Boxed Set (2009) — Avustaja — 92 kappaletta
7th Annual Edition: The Year's Best S-F (1962) — Avustaja — 90 kappaletta
Bedside Book of Famous American Stories (1936) — Avustaja — 71 kappaletta
200 Years of Great American Short Stories (1975) — Avustaja — 68 kappaletta
American Sonnets: An Anthology (2007) — Avustaja — 65 kappaletta
Great Tales of Fantasy and Imagination (1945) — Avustaja — 55 kappaletta
Masters of the Modern Short Story (1945) — Avustaja — 46 kappaletta
A Quarto of Modern Literature (1935) — Avustaja — 39 kappaletta
An American Omnibus (1933) — Avustaja — 31 kappaletta
60 Years of American Poetry (1996) — Avustaja — 28 kappaletta
Studies in Fiction (1965) — Avustaja — 22 kappaletta
The Looking Glass Book of Stories (1960) — Avustaja — 21 kappaletta
American Poetry, 1922 A Miscellany (2007) — Avustaja — 19 kappaletta
Ellery Queen's Poetic Justice (1967) — Avustaja, eräät painokset18 kappaletta
Poetry in Crystal (1963) — Avustaja — 15 kappaletta
Uomini che non ho sposato (2016) — Avustaja — 15 kappaletta
T.S. Eliot (Bloom's Major Poets) (1999) — Avustaja — 12 kappaletta
31 Stories (1960) — Avustaja — 12 kappaletta
Favourite Scary Stories from Graveside Al (1996) — Avustaja — 11 kappaletta
A Treasury of Doctor Stories (1946) — Avustaja — 9 kappaletta
Great Tales of City Dwellers (1955) — Avustaja — 8 kappaletta
Men and Women: The Poetry of Love (1970) — Avustaja — 8 kappaletta
Bibliothek Suhrkamp. Ein Lesebuch, Klassiker der Moderne (1989) — Avustaja — 7 kappaletta
The Story Survey (1953) — Avustaja — 6 kappaletta
Breakdown and Other Thrillers — Avustaja — 4 kappaletta
Cricket Magazine, Vol. 5, No. 10, June 1978 — Avustaja — 2 kappaletta
The Masque of the Red Death and Other Tales of Horror (1964) — Avustaja — 2 kappaletta
Introduction to Fiction (1974) — Avustaja — 1 kappale
Cricket Magazine, Vol. 5, No. 12, August 1978 (1978) — Avustaja — 1 kappale
Cricket Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 3, November 1978 (1978) — Avustaja — 1 kappale

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Yleistieto

Kanoninen nimi
Aiken, Conrad
Virallinen nimi
Aiken, Conrad Potter
Muut nimet
Leake, Samuel, Jr.
Syntymäaika
1889-08-05
Kuolinaika
1973-08-17
Hautapaikka
Bonaventure Cemetery, Savannah, Georgia, USA
Sukupuoli
male
Kansalaisuus
USA
Maa (karttaa varten)
USA
Syntymäpaikka
Savannah, Georgia, USA
Kuolinpaikka
Savannah, Georgia, USA
Asuinpaikat
Savannah, Georgia, USA
New Bedford, Massachusetts, USA
Concord, Massachusetts, USA
Washington, D.C., USA
Rye, New York, USA
West Brewster, Massachusetts, USA
Koulutus
Middlesex School, Concord, Massachusetts
Harvard University (AB|1911)
Ammatit
poet
novelist
literary critic
short-story writer
Suhteet
Lorenz, Clarissa (wife)
Aiken, Joan (daughter)
Hodge, Jane Aiken (daughter)
Aiken, John (son)
Eliot, T. S. (friend)
Pound, Ezra (friend) (näytä kaikki 9)
Lowry, Malcolm (friend)
Davies, W. H. (friend)
Santayana, George (teacher)
Organisaatiot
American Academy of Arts and Letters
Harvard Club
Palkinnot ja kunnianosoitukset
Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (1950-52)
Gold Medal, National Institute of Arts and Letters
National Medal for Literature
Bollingen Prize (1956)
Poet Lauerate of Georgia
Shelley Memorial Award (first winner) (näytä kaikki 13)
Gold Medal of Achievement, Brandeis University
St. Botolph Award
Huntington Hartford Foundation award
Academy of American Poets Fellowship
Guggenheim fellowship
Aiken Taylor Award
Georgia Writers Hall of Fame
Lyhyt elämäkerta
Conrad Aiken was an American poet, short story writer, critic and novelist. Most of Aiken's work reflects his intense interest in psychoanalysis and the development of identity. As editor of Emily Dickinson's Selected Poems in 1924, he was largely responsible for establishing her posthumous literary reputation. From the 1920s Aiken divided his life between England and the United States, playing a significant role in introducing American poets to the British audience.

He was the father of two gifted writers, Joan Aiken and Jane Aiken Hodge.

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THE DEEP ONES: "Mr. Arcularis" by Conrad Aiken, The Weird Tradition (huhtikuu 2016)

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A generous helping of Conrad Aiken's critical writings, from 1915 to 1955, this volume goes a long way toward understanding the man, the critic, the poet, the writer. His humble, yet profound understanding of the artists he reviews is a delight to read- especially the three self-effacing, harsh critiques he does of his own work early on. This book is a must-read for anyone who wants an accessible entryway into the world of literary criticism and the gifted artists it examines.
 
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gauchoman | Oct 24, 2023 |
Though the least accessible memoir I have ever read, Aiken's epic-length essay pulls me back every so often as if to say, "Oh, come on. You can do it. Finish the book this time." And I try. And I fail. But one of these days... (Which is what I keep saying about Moby Dick and Don Quixote.)
The book's obtuse nature aside, though, it is full of prose that is by turns mysterious and beautiful, surreal and stark, tender and brutal. Like many of Aiken's stories, you are entering a world you won't soon forget, the events compelling, even more so if you study about Aiken's life before tackling Ushant. In the end, I believe it was very brave of Aiken to bare his life to the world- even if it's sometimes done by way of riddles, ciphers and symbolism. That's one of the reasons this book is so fascinating and rewarding.
To get a fuller picture of Aiken's style and talent, check out the novel Blue Voyage. Similar themes and style, but more straightforward... well, most of the time...
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gauchoman | Oct 24, 2023 |
Reading Aiken’s BLUE VOYAGE again, and it makes more sense this time. Not sure if it just took a while to get used to Aiken’s style, or if I’m paying closer attention now, or if it’s because I understand the story better. Regardless, it’s becoming one of those books I’ll return to every couple of years just because it’s so deep, atmospheric and puzzling. Sex, death, eternity, spirituality, religion- it’s all there in one form or another.

As for structure and tone, it moves forward in time, over a series of days, but the voyage is fraught with flashbacks, internal and external conversations, dreams, letters, multiple streams of dialogue vying simultaneously for the reader’s attention. To read this book is to walk into the middle of conversations, stories, relationships and voyages. There’s no beginning and no end; it feels like we’ve been on the ship forever. Though countries are mentioned, the world is this ship, an island isolated from everything in the past or future.

What doesn’t make sense yet are the recurring images/thoughts of crucifixion. Why didn’t Aiken instead speak of self-sacrifice in terms of martyrdom or masochism? To be crucified is not necessarily something that one submits to willingly, like a martyr, but ending up on the cross has never been something one couldn’t avoid, if they put their mind to it. Maybe Aiken is simply implying that a commitment to something like marriage- matrimony or avoidance of the same figure prominently in this tale- is only worthwhile if someone is willing to give up freedom and comfort.

Marriage doesn’t fare well, as an institution, in the book. Smith’s marriage- Smith being a secondary character- failed years before; Demarest (the main character) is a confirmed but unfulfilled, bachelor; Cynthia, his ex-fiancé, is about to be married; one of the ship’s staff is married, but ready to cheat on his wife; the Major stays away from his wife for months at a time; the alluring Faubion is married, but on the cusp of a divorce due to her infidelity. None of the characters in Blue Voyage appear with their spouses- and of all of them, Demarest seems the closest to desiring a meaningful relationship. Yet he seems unable, due to fear or a lack of confidence, to effect the relationship he desires.

As for the characters, one of the most annoying is the geriatric Smith; more pathetic than lecherous, he is the personification of regret. Allegedly on the prowl for women, he is more talk than action. He flirts when he should be charming, charming when he should be genuine, friendly when he should instead be a friend. He seems to be the future that Demarest sees himself destined to become- unless this protagonist can overcome a fear of failure enabled by narcissism. Smith is the closest thing to a friend that Demarest has on board the ship, yet the elderly man is more of a co-conspirator in the quest for sex. To say that Smith is past his prime would be understatement; he is on death’s door, or might as well be, so unable is he to connect with the opposite sex.

I could go on and on, for BLUE VOYAGE is one of those books of which another book could be written, there is so much going on- the author’s psyche embedded everywhere one looks. His affairs, wordplay, poetry career, musings on religion, witnessed deaths in his family, and father-son dysfunction. It’s all there, and put together in such a way that I’ll never get to the bottom of it- not as long as his other puzzler, USHANT, is around.
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