JA
's father was Conrad Aiken
(1889-1973), born in Savannah, Georgia: a modernist poet, critic, and editor. He had been publishing poetry for ten years when Joan was born, and had been living in...
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...
Intertextuality and Influence
James Tiptree Jr.
With epigraphs from Conrad Aiken
, Coleridge
, and W. H. Davies
, the author was clearly casting around for a poetic style. She veers between over-ripe romantic sentiment, plaintive expression of pain and loneliness...
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.
qtd. in
Collini, Stefan. “Buffed-Up Scholar”. London Review of Books, Vol.
34
, No. 16, 30 Aug. 2012, 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.
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