Conrad Aiken
Conrad Potter Aiken was an American writer and poet, honored with a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award, and was United States Poet Laureate from 1950 to 1952. His published works include poetry, short stories, novels, literary criticism, a play, and an autobiography.
Background
- Born in
- Savannah
- Educated at
- Harvard UniversityMiddlesex School
- Awards
- 🏆 Bollingen Prize🏆 National Book Award🏆 United States Poet Laureate🏆 Guggenheim Fellowship🏆 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
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Trending topics shown first"Conrad Aiken, The Art of Poetry No. 9", interview by Robert Hunter Wilbur, in The Paris Review"
"Whitman had a profound influence on me. … He was useful to me in the perfection of form, as a sort of compromise between the strict and the free."
"A small but brilliant advance made today by someone’s awareness may for the moment reach a very small audience, but insofar as it’s valid and beautiful, it will make its way and become part of the who…"
"Separate we come, and separate we go, And this be it known, is all that we know."
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Timeline
1889
Born
Birth1973
Died
Death
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