Conrad Aiken

Aiken, Conrad - āˈkĭn, 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 Read More...

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The House of Dust: A Symphony
by Conrad Aiken. 150 pgs.

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Blue Voyage
by Conrad Aiken. 320 pgs.

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A Library of Literary Criticism: Modern American Literature (1960) (Discussion of Conrad Aiken begins on p. 7)
by Dorothy Nyren. 554 pgs.

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Periodicals Represented

Adams, Henry (1838-1918)

Agee, James (1909-1955)

Aiken, Conrad (1889- )

Algren, Nelson (1909- )

Anderson, Maxwell (1888-1959)

Anderson, Sherwood (1876-1941)

Auchincloss, Louis (1917- )

Auden, W. H. (1907-)

Babbitt, Irving (1865-1933)

Baldwin, James (1924- )

Barnes, Djuna (1900- )

Barry, Philip (1896-1949)

Behrman, S. N. (1893- )

Bellow, Saul (1915- )

BenÉT, Stephen Vincent (1898-1943)

Bierce, Ambrose (1842-1914?)

Bishop, Elizabeth (1911- )

Bishop, John Peale (1892-1944)

Blackmur, Richard (1904- )

Bodenheim, Maxwell (1893-1954)

Bogan, Louise (1897- )

Bowles, Paul (1910- )

Brooks, Cleanth (1906- )

Brooks, Van Wyck (1886- )

Buck, Pearl (1892- )

Burke, Kenneth (1897-)

Burns, John Horne (1916-1953)

Cabell, James Branch (1879-)

Caldwell, Erskine (1903- )

Capote, Truman (1924- )

Cather, Willa (1873-1947)

Ciardi, John (1916-)

Clark, Walter Van Tilburg (1908- )

Cowley, Nalcolm (1898- )

Cozzens, James Gould (1903- )

Crane, Hart (1899-1932)

Crane, Stephen (1871-1900)

Cullen, Countee (1903-1946)

Cummings, Edward Estlin (1894- )

Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)

Doolittle, Hilda (H.D.) (1886- )

Dos Passos, John (1896- )

Dreiser, Theodore (1871-1945)

Eberhart, Richard (1904-)

Edmonds, Walter

Eliot, T. S. (1888- )

Ellison, Ralph (1914- )

Farrell, James Thomas (1904- )

Fast, Howard (1904- )

Faulkner, William (1897- )

Fearing, Kenneth (1902- )

Fisher, Dorothy Canfield (1879-1958)

Fisher, Vardis (1895- )

Fitzgerald, F. Scott (1896-1940)

Fitzgerald, Robert (1910- )

Fletcher, John Gould (1886-1950)

Fowlie, Wallace (1908- )

Frost, Robert (1875- )

Garrigue, Jean (1914- )

Ginsberg, Allen (1926- )

Glasgow, Ellen (1874-1945)

Gold, Herbert (1924- )

Goyen, William (1918- )

Gregory, Horace (1898- )

Guthrie A. B., Jr. (1901- )

Hayes, Alfred (1911- )

Hearn, Lafcadio (1850-1904)

Hellman, Lillian (1905- )

Hemingway, Ernest (1898- )

Hersey, John (1914- )

Howard, Sidney (1891-1939)

Howells, William Dean (1837-1920)

Hughes, Langston (1902- )

Inge, William (1913- )

Jackson, Shirley (1919- )

James, Henry (1843-1916)

Jarell, Randall (1914- )

Jeffers, Robinson (1887- )

Kantor, Mackinlay (1904- )

Kerouac, Jack (1922- )

Kingsley, Sidney (1906- )

Kreymborg, Alfred (1883- )

Kunitz, Stanley (1905- )

Lardner, Ring (1885-1933)

Levin, Meyer (1905- )

Lewis, Sinclair (1885-1951)

Lewisohn, Ludwig (1882-1956)

Lindsay, Vachel (1879-1931)

London, Jack (1876-1916)

Lowell, Amy (1874-1925)

Lowell, Robert (1917- )

Mccarthy, Mary (1912- )

Mccullers, Carson (1917- )

Macleish, Archibald (1892- )

Mailer, Norman (1923- )

Malamud, Bernard (1914- )

Marquand, John P. (1893- )

Masters, Edgar Lee (1868-1950)

Mencken, H. L. (1880-1950)

Millay, Edna St. Vincent (1892-1950)

Miller, Arthur (1915- )

Miller, Henry (1891- )

Moody, William Vaughan (1869-1910)

Moore, Marianne (1887- )

Moore, Merrill (1903-1957)

Morris, Wright (1910- )

Nln, Anais (1903- )

Norris, Frank (1870-1902)

O'Connor, Flannery (1926- )

Odets, Clifford (1906- )

O'Neill, Eugene (1888-1953)

Parker, Dorothy (1893- )

Patchen, Kenneth (1911- )

Porter Katherine Anne (1894- )

Pound, Ezra (1885- )

Ransom, John Crowe (1888- )

Rexroth, Kenneth (1905- )

Rice, Elmer (1892- )

Richter, Conrad (1890- )

Roberts, Elizabeth Madox (1886-1941)

Roberts, Kenneth (1885-1957)

Roethke, Theodore (1908- )

Rukeyser, Muriel (1913- )

Salinger, J. D. (1919- )

Sandburg, Carl (1878- )

Santayana, George (1863-1952)

Saroyan, William (1908- )

Sarton, May (1912- )

Schulberg, Budd (1914- )

Schwartz, Delmore (1913- )

Scott, Winfield Townley (1910- )

Shapiro, Karl (1913- )

Shaw, Irwin (1913- )

Sherwood, Robert (1896-1855)

Sinclair, Upton (1878- )

Stafford, Jean (1915- )

Stegner, Wallace (1909- )

Steinbeck, John (1902- )

Styron, William (1925- )

Tate, Allen (1899- )

Taylor, Peter (1917- )

Thurber, James (1894- )

Trilling, Lionel (1905- )

Twain, Mark (1835-1910)

Van Doren, Mark (1894- )

Van Druten, John (1901-1957)

Viereck, Peter (1919- )

Warren, Robert Penn (1905- )

Welty, Eudora (1909- )

Wescott, Glenway (1901- )

West, Nathanael (1906-1940)

Wharton, Edith (1862-1937)

Wheelock, John (1886- )

Wheelwright, John Brooks (1897-1940)

Wilbur, Richard (1921- )

Wilder, Thornton (1897- )

Williams, Tennessee (1914- )

Wilson, Edmund (1895- )

Winters, Yvor (1900)

Wolfe, Thomas (1900-1938)

Wright, Richard (1908- )
4.

I Hear America ...: Literature in the United States since 1900 ("Conrad Aiken" begins on p. 170)
by Vernon Loggins. 382 pgs.

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I: Introductory

II: Unpremeditated Art

III: Questioning Despair

IV: Cleaving to the Dream

V: Dominant Primordial

VI: Back of the Mask

VII: Manners

VIII: Regional Variations

IX: Iconoclasm

X: Revolution

XI: Cap and Bells

XII: Intellectualism and Experiment

XIII: Mindful of the Millions

Recommended for Reading

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments

Index

Index
5.

The Melody of Chaos (1931) (Includes discussion of Conrad Aiken in multiple chapters)
by Houston Peterson. 292 pgs.

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PREFACE

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I Mania Psychologica

Ii Biographical Fragments

Iii Nympholepsy

Iv Vicarious Experience

V the Enormous Brain

Vi Vicissitudes of the Ego

Vii Which is I?

Viii the Net of Self

Ix Clown

X the Dance of Death

Xi Obscene Things

Xii Blue Voyage

Xiii Aspects of Chaos
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The Spiritual Aspects of the New Poetry (Chap. VI "Mr. Conrad Aiken and the Self")
by Amos N. Wilder. 266 pgs.

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Part One. Modernist and Traditionalist

Chapter I: The Significance of the New Poetry

Chapter II: The Marks of the New Poetry

Chapter III: The Traditionalist Poet Today

Chapter IV: The Problem of Religious Poetry In America

Part Two. Factors Making for Negation

Chapter V: New Views of the Self

Chapter VI: Mr. Conrad Aiken and the Self

Chapter VII: Social Realism

Chapter IX: Contemporary Perdition

Part Three. Alternative Faiths

Chapter X: The Cult of the Irrational

Chapter XI: The New Pantheism

Chapter XII: The Nihilism of Mr. Robinson Jeffers

Chapter XIII: The Primitivism of D. H. Lawrence

Chapter XIV: Ethical Motives

Chapter XV: Revolutionary and Proletarian Poetry: Kenneth Patchen

Chapter XVI: W. B. Yeats and the Christian Option

Chapter XVII: Mr. T. S. Eliot and the Anglo-Catholic Option

Chapter XVIII: The Pit from Which We Were Digged

Appendix: Orientation and Reading Guide

Bibliography

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American Literature and the Destruction of Knowledge: Innovative Writing in the Age of Epistemology (Chap. 12 "Conrad Aiken and Wallace Stevens: The Mind Watches the Mind Hunting the Real")
by Ronald E. Martin. 394 pgs.

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Ithe Destruction Of Knowledge in the Prescientific Literary Imagination

2: Walt Whitman and the World Beyond Rationalism

3: Herman Melville and The Failure of Higher Truth

4: Emily Dickinson and the Destruction Of the Language of Knowledge

II: Science and The Knowledge of Knowing

5: Scientists and Their Knowledge

6: Science and the Epistemologists

III: Realisms in a Relativistic World

7: Literary and Philosophical Realisms: Uncertain Paths Toward Certainty

8: Stephen Crane and Robert Frost: Nonreflexive Perception And Dehumanized Universe

IV: The Revolution in Visual Arts

9: The Artistic Process and The Wider Event

V: The American Writer in The Age of Epistemology

10: Gertrude Stein and The Splendid Century

11: Ezra Pound and Ernest Hemingway: The Discipline of Destruction

12: Conrad Aiken and Wallace Stevens: The Mind Watches the Mind Hunting the Real

13: William Carlos Williams: Thinking A World Without Thought

14: John Dos Passos: Actuality Montage (The Real Event and the Speech of the People)

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Autobiographical Occasions and Original Acts: Versions of American Identity from Henry Adams to Nate Shaw (Chap. 5 "Cato's Mirror: The Face of Violence in the Autobiographies of Alexander Berkman and Conrad Aiken")
by Albert E. Stone. 352 pgs.

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I: Individual Stories and Cultural Narratives: Autobiography in Modern America

2: History and a Final Self: W. E. B. Du Bois and Henry Adams

3: The Soul and the Self: Black Elk and Thomas Merton

4: The Childhood of the Artist: Louis Sullivan and Richard Wright

5: Cato's Mirror: the Face of Violence in The Autobiographies of Alexander Berkman And Conrad Aiken

6: Becoming a Woman in Male America: Margaret Mead and Anaïs Nin

7: Two Recreate One: the Act Of Collaboration in Recent Black Autobiography--Ossie Guffy, Nate Shaw, Malcolm X

8: Factual Fictions: Experiments In Autobiography by Norman Mailer, Frank Conroy, Lillian Hellman

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Dust unto Dust: The "Handful of Dust" in The Waste Land -- from Aiken's House, in Journal of Modern Literature
by Robert F. Fleissner. 4 pgs.

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The Coming Forth by Day of Osiris Jones
by Conrad Aiken. 48 pgs.

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And in the Human Heart
by Conrad Aiken. 92 pgs.

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