Aiken, Conrad Potter
Aiken, Conrad Potter ( 1889 – 1973 ),American author born in Georgia, brought up in Massachusetts, and educated at Harvard, where he was in the class of 1911 with T. S. Eliot . He made the first of many journeys to Europe in 1911 , and lived in England for extended periods in the early 1920s and mid-1930s, writing at one time as London correspondent for the New Yorker as ‘Samuel Jeake, Jr’. His first volume of poetry, Earth Triumphant ( 1914 ), was followed by many others, including The Jig of Forslin ( 1916 ); Senlin: A Biography ( 1918 ); John Deth ( 1930 ); and Preludes for Memnon ( 1931 ). His long poems, which he described as ‘symphonies’, show the somewhat diffused and diffuse influence of his Modernist contemporaries and friends. He also published several novels, which show a debt to Joyce and Freud , and his own desire to explore ‘the...
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