JA
's father was Conrad Aiken
(1889-1973), born in Savannah, Georgia: a modernist poet, critic, and editor of Emily Dickinson
. He had been publishing poetry for ten years when Joan was born, and...
Friends, Associates
T. S. Eliot
London at this date was a heady place for a young poet to be, and this was as much because of the presence of Americans (like Ezra Pound
and Conrad Aiken
, both of whom...
Literary responses
T. S. Eliot
Conrad Aiken
, reviewing, wrote: Mr. Eliot seems to be definitely and defeatedly in retreat from the present and of his hostility towards the modern world.
Collini, Stefan. “Buffed-Up Scholar”. London Review of Books, Vol.
34
, No. 16, pp. 13-16.
15
Literary responses
Dorothy Richardson
Later in 1928, the New York Post printed a review of Oberland, with an assessment of Pilgrimage as a whole, by the poet Conrad Aiken
. He declared that Richardson deserved as precise and...
Textual Production
Joan Aiken
In collaboration with her sister and half-brother, JA
produced a book of memoirs entitled Conrad Aiken
, Our Father: the cover title was Conrad Aiken Remembered.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.