Conrad Aiken

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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.