Who is Conrad Aiken

Conrad Potter Aiken (August 5, 1889 – August 17, 1973) 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.

Biography

Early years

Aiken was the eldest son of William Ford and Anna (Potter) Aiken. In Savannah, Aiken's father became a respected physician and eye surgeon, while his mother was the daughter of a prominent Massachusetts Unitarian minister. On February 27, 1901, Dr. Aiken murdered his wife and then committed suicide. According to his autobiography, Ushant, Aiken, then 11 years old, heard the two gunshots and discovered the bodies immediatel...
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Conrad Aiken Poems

• Music I Heard
  Music I heard with you was more than music,
  And bread I broke with you was more than bread;
  Now that I am without you, all is desolate;
  All that was once so beautiful is dead....
• Zudora
  Here on the pale beach, in the darkness;
  With the full moon just to rise;
  They sit alone, and look over the sea,
  Or into each other's eyes. . ....
• Violet Moore And Bert Moore
  He thinks her little feet should pass
  Where dandelions star thickly grass;
  Her hands should lift in sunlit air
  Sea-wind should tangle up her hair....
• The House Of Dust: Part 04: 07: The Sun Goes Down In A Cold Pale Flare Of Light
  The sun goes down in a cold pale flare of light.
  The trees grow dark: the shadows lean to the east:
  And lights wink out through the windows, one by one.
  A clamor of frosty sirens mourns at the night....
• The House Of Dust: Part 04: 06: Cinema
  As evening falls,
  The walls grow luminous and warm, the walls
  Tremble and glow with the lives within them moving,
  Moving like music, secret and rich and warm....

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Comments about Conrad Aiken

• P79046: death is never an ending, death is a change;death is beautiful, for death is strange;death is one dream out of another flowing.,conrad aiken, the house of dust,death, life-and-death, mortality,
• Pittrading101: all lovely things will have an ending, all lovely things will fade and die; and youth, that's now so bravely spending, will beg a penny by and by. —conrad aiken
• Ngencyclopedia: over nearly fifty years, savannah-native conrad aiken published poems, essays, short stories, novels, and literary criticism. he won a pulitzer prize and a national book award for poetry. read more:
• Mpvstreaming: night gallery (season 4: 1973–74) orson welles assumed hosting duties after rod serling left the series due to creative differences with producer jack laird. episodes included adaptations of stories by h. p. lovecraft, conrad aiken, andré maurois, fritz leiber, and robert bloch.
• Queenofbithynia: don't really like admitting to not knowing things even when the not knowing is behind me, but i really didn't know a swiftly tilting planet was a conrad aiken line a point conceded to l'engle for good taste but a point retracted for not telling me

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