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Biographies (5)

1,165 words, approx. 4 pages
Conrad (Potter) Aiken (1889-1973), poet, essayist, novelist, and critic, was one of America's foremost men of letters and a major figure in American literary modernism.In Conrad Aiken's "Silent Snow, ... Read more
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Biography EssayConrad Aiken's long and productive literary career has prompted such descriptions of him as "the buried giant of twentieth-century American writing" (Malcolm Cowley), "the best known un... Read more
1,562 words, approx. 6 pages
Conrad Potter Aiken was born in Savannah, Georgia, the eldest of three sons born to William and Anna Aiken. His father was a brilliant Harvard-trained physician and surgeon, his mother the daughter of... Read more
9,570 words, approx. 32 pages
Conrad Aiken's long and productive literary career has prompted such descriptions of him as "the buried giant of twentieth-century American writing" (Malcolm Cowley), "the best known unread poet of th... Read more
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Conrad Aiken 's works--twenty-six volumes of poetry, five novels, forty-one short stories, two volumes of criticism, and one play--present a range of achievement that made him "one of the few genuine ... Read more