| Product Summary | | Format: Paperback | | ISBN: 9781419166716 | | Publisher: Kessinger Publishing | | Publish Date: 4/10/2007 | | Buy.com Sku: 39944543 | | Item#: BRLXDK | | Dimensions (in Inches) 9.5H x 7.75L x 0.25T | | Pages: 92 |
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| | | Like one in a restless sleep, who lies and dreams Of vague desires, and memories, and half-forgotten pain . . . Along dark veins, like lights the quick dreams run, Flash, are extinguished, flash again, To mingle and glow at last in the enormous brain And die away . . . As evening falls.
| Author Bio| Conrad Aiken | | When Conrad Potter Aiken was 11, his father killed his mother and then himself, and Conrad was raised by relatives in Massachusetts. This incident had a profound effect on the interest in psychological themes Aiken showed in his work. Beginning in 1911, Aiken traveled to Europe several times, settling in England in 1922. In 1925 he returned to Massachusetts, and spent the remainder of his life in and around Cape Cod. In Europe he met Ezra Pound and Amy Lowell who, along with his Harvard professor George Santayana, and classmate T. S. Eliot, greatly influenced his work. Aiken also imitated the styles of Poe, the French Symbolists, Henry James, and others. Freud had a tremendous influence on the "psychoanalytic poet's" preoccupation with human consciousness and self-identity, which was especially evident in his 1952 autobiography, USHANT. Aiken was a reviewer for The New Republic, and the London correspondent for The New Yorker under a pseudonym. He won many prestigious literary awards, and was praised by respected writers and critics, yet never became truly popular or part of the mainstream of American poetry and literature. He never associated himself with a particular movement or group, nor did he actively promote himself. Later in life, he became bitter, self-obsessed, and negative towards writers and writing in general. |
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