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Conrad Aiken Potter was born on August 5, 1889, in Savannah, Georgia, to a New York doctor father and a Unitarian minister mother, but his father killed his mother and himself when Aiken was 11.<ref>http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/arts-culture/conrad-aiken-1889-1973</ref> This was greatly psychologically disturbing to him, and one of his chief influences along with his Harvard philosophy professor, [[George Santayana]].<ref name="poet">https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poets/detail/conrad-aiken</ref> He attended Middlesex School in Concord, Massachusetts, and graduated from Harvard in 1912, along with [[T.S. Eliot]].<ref>https://www.poemhunter.com/conrad-potter-aiken/biography/</ref> | Conrad Aiken Potter was born on August 5, 1889, in Savannah, Georgia, to a New York doctor father and a Unitarian minister mother, but his father killed his mother and himself when Aiken was 11.<ref>http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/arts-culture/conrad-aiken-1889-1973</ref> This was greatly psychologically disturbing to him, and one of his chief influences along with his Harvard philosophy professor, [[George Santayana]].<ref name="poet">https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poets/detail/conrad-aiken</ref> He attended Middlesex School in Concord, Massachusetts, and graduated from Harvard in 1912, along with [[T.S. Eliot]].<ref>https://www.poemhunter.com/conrad-potter-aiken/biography/</ref> | ||
| − | He contributed to ''Dial'' magazine, where he met [[Ezra Pound]], and published his first volume, ''Earth Poetry'', in 1914, establishing him as a poet, which he cited as an excuse to avoid the World War One draft. He continued to work as a poet before World War Two, marrying three times, crossing the Atlantic many times, publishing essays in ''Scepticisms'' (1919), and winning the 1930 Pulitzer Prize for his ''Selected Poems''.<ref>http://www.harvardsquarelibrary.org/biographies/conrad-aiken-unitarian-prodigy-poet/</ref> He was greatly influences in this time by [[Sigmund Freud]] and [[Carl Jung]], and many of his novels, such as ''The Great Circle'' (1933), involve characters in need of psychoanalysis.<ref>http://biography.yourdictionary.com/conrad-aiken</ref> He was likely better known for his short stories than his poems in the style of music.<ref>"Aiken, Conrad." ''Encyclopedia Britannica Online''.</ref> While much of them, especially "Silent Snow, Secret Snow," include characters that are parallel to Aiken's psyche, he only published a complete replica of himself in his autobiography, ''UShant''.<ref name="poet" | + | He contributed to ''Dial'' magazine, where he met [[Ezra Pound]], and published his first volume, ''Earth Poetry'', in 1914, establishing him as a poet, which he cited as an excuse to avoid the World War One draft. He continued to work as a poet before World War Two, marrying three times, crossing the Atlantic many times, publishing essays in ''Scepticisms'' (1919), and winning the 1930 Pulitzer Prize for his ''Selected Poems''.<ref>http://www.harvardsquarelibrary.org/biographies/conrad-aiken-unitarian-prodigy-poet/</ref> He was greatly influences in this time by [[Sigmund Freud]] and [[Carl Jung]], and many of his novels, such as ''The Great Circle'' (1933), involve characters in need of psychoanalysis.<ref>http://biography.yourdictionary.com/conrad-aiken</ref> He was likely better known for his short stories than his poems in the style of music.<ref>"Aiken, Conrad." ''Encyclopedia Britannica Online''.</ref> While much of them, especially "Silent Snow, Secret Snow," include characters that are parallel to Aiken's psyche, he only published a complete replica of himself in his autobiography, ''UShant''.<ref name="poet" /> He died August 17, 1973, in Savannah, Georgia. |
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Conrad Aiken (1889-1973) was an American author. His works include The House of Dust: A Symphony (1920), Selected Poems (1929), Conversation (or Pilgrim's Progress) (1940), The Soldier (1944), The Kid (1947), and UShant: An Essay (1952). He won a Pulitzer Prize for Selected Poems.[1]
Life and Works
Conrad Aiken Potter was born on August 5, 1889, in Savannah, Georgia, to a New York doctor father and a Unitarian minister mother, but his father killed his mother and himself when Aiken was 11.[2] This was greatly psychologically disturbing to him, and one of his chief influences along with his Harvard philosophy professor, George Santayana.[3] He attended Middlesex School in Concord, Massachusetts, and graduated from Harvard in 1912, along with T.S. Eliot.[4]
He contributed to Dial magazine, where he met Ezra Pound, and published his first volume, Earth Poetry, in 1914, establishing him as a poet, which he cited as an excuse to avoid the World War One draft. He continued to work as a poet before World War Two, marrying three times, crossing the Atlantic many times, publishing essays in Scepticisms (1919), and winning the 1930 Pulitzer Prize for his Selected Poems.[5] He was greatly influences in this time by Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung, and many of his novels, such as The Great Circle (1933), involve characters in need of psychoanalysis.[6] He was likely better known for his short stories than his poems in the style of music.[7] While much of them, especially "Silent Snow, Secret Snow," include characters that are parallel to Aiken's psyche, he only published a complete replica of himself in his autobiography, UShant.[3] He died August 17, 1973, in Savannah, Georgia.
References
- ↑ The New York Public Library Student's Desk Reference. Prentice Hall, New York, 1993.
- ↑ http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/arts-culture/conrad-aiken-1889-1973
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poets/detail/conrad-aiken
- ↑ https://www.poemhunter.com/conrad-potter-aiken/biography/
- ↑ http://www.harvardsquarelibrary.org/biographies/conrad-aiken-unitarian-prodigy-poet/
- ↑ http://biography.yourdictionary.com/conrad-aiken
- ↑ "Aiken, Conrad." Encyclopedia Britannica Online.
External links
- Poems at the Black Cat Poetry website
- Poems at the Poem hunter website
- Extensive Biography by the Poetry Foundation