Aiken, Conrad [Potter]
Aiken, Conrad [Potter]( 1889–1973),was born in Georgia but reared in Massachusetts, from which his parents' families had come, and educated at Harvard (A.B., 1911), so that a strong sense of a New England heritage is evident in his writing. In his maturity he lived for many years in England but returned to make his home in Massachusetts. His early poetry is marked by subtle musical rhythms and is concerned with the problem of personal identity, what it is that constitutes one's own consciousness, how to achieve self-knowledge, and how to transcend the self so as to understand the world at large. The volumes that collect this early poetry include Earth Triumphant (1914); Turns and Movies (1916); The Jig of Forslin: A Symphony (1916); Nocturne of Remembered Spring (1917); The Charnel Rose, Senlin: A Biography, and Other Poems (1918); The House of Dust: A Symphony (1920); Punch: The Immortal Liar...
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