Aiken, Conrad | Further Reading
FURTHER READING
Biography
Aiken, Conrad. "Prologue to an Autobiography." The American Scholar 35 (Autumn 1966): 621-30.
Aiken uses poetic language to describe briefly his childhood.
Criticism
Beach, Joseph Warren. "Conrad Aiken and T. S. Eliot: Echoes and Overtones." PMLA LXIX, No. 4, Part 1 (September 1954): 753-62.
Compares Aiken's poetry, beginning with The Jig of Forslin (1916) to that of T. S. Eliot of the same era.
Bollier, E. P. "From Scepticism to Poetry: A Note on Conrad Aiken and T. S. Eliot." Tulane Studies in English XIII (1963): 95-104.
Asserts that Aiken's poetry was influenced by and also inferior to the poetry of T. S. Eliot.
DeMott, Benjamin. "Life Carved to a Pointed End." Saturday Review LIV, No. 5 (30 January 1971): 23-5.
Describes the poetry in Aiken's...
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