Editing Conrad Aiken

{{short description|American novelist and poet}}
{{Infobox writer
| image            = Conrad Aiken poet.jpg
| birth_name       = Conrad Potter Aiken
| birth_date       = {{birth date|1889|08|05}}
| birth_place      = [[Savannah, Georgia]], U.S.
| death_date       = {{death date and age|1973|08|17|1889|08|05}}
| death_place      = Savannah, Georgia, U.S.
| occupation       = {{flatlist|
* [[Poet]]
* [[playwright]]
* [[essayist]]
* [[novelist]]
* [[critic]]}}
| spouse           = Jessie McDonald (1912–1929)<br />Clarissa Lorenz (1930)<br />[[Mary Hoover Aiken|Mary Hoover]] (1937)
| children         = 3, including [[Jane Aiken Hodge|Jane]] and [[Joan Aiken|Joan]]
| education        = [[Harvard University]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]])
}}
'''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 story|short stories]], [[novel]]s, literary criticism, a play, and an autobiography.<ref name="Conrad Aiken">{{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Conrad-Aiken |title=Conrad Aiken |website=Britannica |access-date=July 6, 2020}}</ref>

== Biography ==

===Early years===
[[File:Oscar Dibble House.jpg|thumb|228 [[Oglethorpe Avenue|East Oglethorpe Avenue]] in [[Savannah, Georgia]]]]
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.<ref name="Conrad Aiken" /> For the first eleven years of Aiken's life, his family lived at 228 [[Oglethorpe Avenue|East Oglethorpe Avenue]] in Savannah.<ref>{{Cite news |title= Oct 26, 1994, page 41 - the Atlanta Constitution at Atlanta Journal Constitution|newspaper=The Atlanta Constitution |date=October 26, 1994 |page=41 |url=https://ajc.newspapers.com/image/403711978/ |access-date=March 28, 2024}}</ref>

On February 27, 1901, William Ford Aiken murdered his wife and then committed suicide. According to his 1952 autobiography, ''Ushant'', Aiken, then 11 years old, heard the two gunshots and discovered the bodies immediately thereafter.<ref name="PoetryFoundation">{{cite web |url=https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/conrad-aiken |title=Conrad Aiken |website=Poetry Foundation.org |publisher=Poetry Foundation |access-date=July 6, 2020}}</ref> After his parents' deaths, he was raised by his great-aunt and uncle in [[Cambridge, Massachusetts]], attending [[Middlesex School]], then [[Harvard University]].<ref name="Conrad Aiken" />

At Harvard, Aiken edited the ''[[The Harvard Advocate|Advocate]]'' with [[T. S. Eliot]], who became a lifelong friend, colleague, and influence.<ref name="AcademyPoets">{{cite web |url=https://poets.org/poet/conrad-aiken |title=About Conrad Aiken |website=Poets.org |publisher=Academy of American Poets |access-date=July 6, 2020}}</ref> It was also at Harvard where Aiken studied under another significant influence in his writing, the philosopher [[George Santayana]].<ref name="PoetryFoundation" />

===Adult years===
Aiken was strongly influenced by [[Symbolism (arts)|symbolism]], especially in his earlier works. In 1930 he received the [[Pulitzer Prize for Poetry]] for his ''Selected Poems''. Many of his writings had strong psychological themes. He wrote the widely anthologized short story "[[Silent Snow, Secret Snow]]" (1934), partially based on his childhood tragedy.<ref name="AcademyPoets" />

Other influences were Aiken's grandfather, Potter, who had been a church preacher, as well as Whitman's freestyle poetry. This helped Aiken shape his poetry more freely while his recognition of a God grounded his more visually rich explorations into the universe. Some of his best-known poetry, such as "Morning Song from Senlin", uses these influences to great effect.

His collections of verse include ''Earth Triumphant'' (1914), ''The Charnel Rose'' (1918) and ''And In the Hanging Gardens'' (1933). His poem "Music I Heard" has been set to music by a number of composers, including [[Leonard Bernstein]], [[Henry Cowell]], and [[Helen Searles Westbrook]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Office |first=Library of Congress Copyright |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MTohAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA155 |title=Catalog of Copyright Entries: Third series |year=1956}}</ref> Aiken wrote or edited more than 51 books, the first of which was published in 1914, two years after his graduation from Harvard. His work includes novels, short stories (''The Collected Short Stories'' appeared in 1961), reviews, an autobiography, and poetry. He received numerous awards and honors for his writing, though for most of his lifetime, he received little public attention.<ref name="PoetryFoundation" />

Though Aiken was reluctant to speak of his early trauma and ensuing psychological problems, he acknowledged that his writings were strongly influenced by his studies of [[Sigmund Freud]], [[Carl G. Jung]], [[Otto Rank]], Ferenczi, Adler, and other [[depth psychology|depth psychologists]]. It was not until the publication of his autobiography, ''Ushant'', that Aiken revealed the emotional challenges that he had battled for much of his adult life. During the 1920s Freud heard of him and offered to psychoanalyze him. While aboard a Europe-bound ship to meet with Freud, Aiken was discouraged by [[Erich Fromm]] from accepting the offer. Consequently, despite Freud's strong influence on Aiken, Aiken never met the noted psychoanalyst.<ref name="Conrad Aiken" /> As he later said, "Freud had read ''Great Circle'', and I'm told kept a copy on his office table. But I didn't go, though I started to. Misgivings set in, and so did poverty."<ref name="ParisReview">{{cite magazine |url=https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/4283/the-art-of-poetry-no-9-conrad-aiken |title=Conrad Aiken, The Art of Poetry No. 9 |last=Wilbur |first=Robert Hunter |date=1968 |volume=Winter-Spring 1968 |issue=42 |magazine=The Paris Review |access-date=July 6, 2020}}</ref>

===Personal life===
Aiken had three younger siblings, Kempton Potter (K. P. A. Taylor), Robert Potter (R. P. A. Taylor), and Elizabeth. After their parents' deaths, the four children were adopted by [[Frederick Winslow Taylor]] and his wife Louise, their great-aunt. His siblings took Taylor's last name. Kempton helped establish the [[Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry]].

He was married three times: firstly to Jessie McDonald (1912–1929); secondly to Clarissa Lorenz (1930–1937) (author of a biography, ''Lorelei Two''); and thirdly to the painter [[Mary Hoover Aiken|Mary Hoover]] (1937–1973).<ref name="AcademyPoets" /> He fathered three children by his first wife Jessie: John Aiken, [[Jane Aiken Hodge]] and [[Joan Aiken]], all of whom became writers. Over the years, he served ''[[in loco parentis]]'' as well as mentor to the English author [[Malcolm Lowry]].<ref>{{cite book |author=David Markson |url=https://archive.org/details/malcolmlowrysvol00mark |title=Malcolm Lowry's Volcano: Myth, Symbol, Meaning |date=1978 |quote=A case in point involved Aiken, who had filled an ''in loco parentis'' role for [Lowry] in his youth... |page=224|publisher=Times Books |isbn=978-0-8129-0751-3 }}</ref>

Aiken married Jessie McDonald in 1912, and the couple moved to England in 1921 with their older two children; John (born 1913) and Jane (born 1917), settling in [[Rye, East Sussex]] (where the American novelist [[Henry James]] had once lived).<ref>{{cite book |last=Nash |first=Paul |author-link=Paul Nash (artist) |title=Outline, an Autobiography: And Other Writings |publisher=Faber & Faber |edition=1st |year=1949 |page=220}}</ref> The couple's youngest daughter, Joan, was born in Rye in 1924. Conrad Aiken returned to [[Cambridge, Massachusetts]], as a tutor at Harvard from 1927 to 1928. For many years, he divided his time between Rye, New York, and Boston.<ref name="Harvard">{{cite web |url=https://www.harvardsquarelibrary.org/biographies/conrad-aiken-unitarian-prodigy-poet/ |title=Aiken, Conrad(1889-1973) |author=<!--Not stated--> |website=HarvardSquareLibrary.org |publisher=Harvard Square Library |access-date=July 6, 2020}}</ref> In 1931 he was introduced by the artist [[Paul Nash (artist)|Paul Nash]] to [[Edward Burra]], a painter also living in Rye. That year Burra painted his [[gouache]] "John Deth", inspired by Aiken's poem of that name and originally intended to illustrate a projected edition that was never realized. Nevertheless, the two men maintained a lifelong friendship thereafter.<ref>''Edward Burra'', Arts Council of Great Britain (1985), pp. 95-97.</ref>

In 1936, Aiken met his third wife, Mary, in Boston. In the following year the couple visited Malcolm Lowry in [[Cuernavaca]], Mexico, where Aiken divorced Clarissa and married Mary. The couple moved to Rye, where they remained until the outbreak of [[World War II]] in 1940. The Aikens settled in [[Brewster, Massachusetts]], on [[Cape Cod]], where he and his wife Mary later ran a summer program for writers and painters named after their antique farmhouse, "Forty-One Doors".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://vc.bridgew.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1000&context=finding_aids|title=Maxwell Library, Archives & Special Collections, Conrad Aiken Collection |last=Kingsley |first=Orson |date=October 24, 2016 |website=Bridgewater.edu |publisher=[[Bridgewater State University]] |access-date=July 6, 2020}}</ref> Despite living for many years abroad and receiving recognition as a Southern writer, Aiken always considered himself an American, and, in particular, a New Englander.<ref name="ParisReview" />

In 1923, he acted as a witness at the marriage of his friend, poet [[W. H. Davies]]. From 1950 to 1952, he served as [[Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress]], more commonly known as Poet Laureate of the United States. In 1960, he visited [[Grasmere (village)|Grasmere]] in the [[Lake District]], England (once the home of [[William Wordsworth]]), with his friend Edward Burra.<ref>Arts Council, Hayward Gallery Catalogue, 1985</ref>

[[Image:ConradAikenBench.jpg|thumb|220px|Bench at grave of Conrad Aiken in [[Bonaventure Cemetery]] in Savannah, Georgia]]
The Aikens lived primarily at their farmhouse in West Brewster and wintered in Savannah in a home adjacent to his early childhood house.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-mary-hoover-aiken-1559685.html |title=Obituary: Mary Hoover Aiken |last=Killorin |first=Joseph |date=October 26, 1992 |work=The Independent |access-date=July 6, 2020}}</ref>

Aiken died on 17 August 1973, aged 84, and was buried in [[Bonaventure Cemetery]] in [[Savannah, Georgia]], on the banks of the [[Wilmington River (Georgia)|Wilmington River]]. His widow was buried beside him after her death in 1992. The burial site was featured in ''[[Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil]]'' by [[John Berendt]]. According to local legend, Aiken wished to have his tombstone fashioned in the shape of a bench as an invitation to visitors to stop and enjoy a martini at his grave. The bench is inscribed with "Give my love to the world" and "Cosmos Mariner—Destination Unknown".

A primary source for information on Aiken's life is his autobiographical novel ''Ushant'' (1952), one of his major works. In it, he wrote candidly about his various affairs and marriages, his attempted suicide and fear of insanity, and his friendships with T. S. Eliot (who appears in the book as the Tsetse), [[Ezra Pound]] (Rabbi Ben Ezra), [[Malcolm Lowry]] (Hambo), and others.

==Awards and recognition==
Named Poetry Consultant (now U.S. Poet Laureate) of the Library of Congress from 1950 to 1952, Aiken earned numerous prestigious writing honors, including a [[Pulitzer Prize]] in 1930 for ''Selected Poems'', the 1954 National Book Award for ''Collected Poems'',<ref name=nba1954>[https://www.nationalbook.org/awards-prizes/national-book-awards-1954 "National Book Awards – 1954"]. [[National Book Foundation]]. Retrieved 2012-03-02.
<br/>(With acceptance speech by Aiken and essay by [[Evie Shockley]] from the Awards 60-year anniversary blog.)</ref> the Bollingen Prize in Poetry, the National Institute of Arts and Letters Gold Medal in Poetry, and a National Medal for Literature. He was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship in 1934, Academy of American Poets fellowship in 1957, Huntington Hartford Foundation Award in 1960, and Brandeis University Creative Arts Award in 1967.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Riggs |first1=Thomas |title=Reference Guide to Short Fiction |year=1999 |publisher=St. James Press |location=Michigan |isbn=1-55862-222-5 |page=8 |edition=2nd}}</ref> Aiken was the first Georgia-born author to win a Pulitzer Prize, and was named Georgia's Poet Laureate in 1973.<ref>{{cite news |title=Is it time to rediscover Conrad Aiken? |last=Malone |first=Tyler |date=April 13, 2017 |newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]] |url=https://www.latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/la-ca-jc-conrad-aiken-20170413-story.html |access-date=June 27, 2019}}</ref> He was the first winner of the [[Poetry Society of America]]'s [[Shelley Memorial Award]], in 1929. In [[1973 Nobel Prize in Literature|1973]], he was nominated for the [[Nobel Prize in Literature]] but died months earlier before his only chance to be awarded.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/nomination/archive/show_people.php?id=16751|title=Nomination Archive - Conrad Potter Aiken|website=NobelPrize.org|date=March 2024|access-date=March 14, 2024}}</ref>

In 2009, [[the Library of America]] selected Aiken's 1931 story "Mr. Arcularis" for inclusion in its two-century retrospective of American fantastic tales.

==Selected works==

===Poetry collections===
* ''[https://archive.org/details/earthtriumphant00aikerich Earth Triumphant]'' (Aiken, 1914)
* ''[https://archive.org/details/cu31924022232338 Turns and Movies and other Tales in Verse]'' (Aiken, 1916, Houghton Mifflin)
* ''The Jig of Forslin: A Symphony'', 1916 
* ''[https://archive.org/details/nocturneofrememb00aike Nocturne of Remembered Spring: And Other Poems]'' (Aiken, 1917)
* ''[https://archive.org/details/charnelrosesenli00aikeuoft Charnel Rose]'' (Aiken, 1918)
* ''The House of Dust: A Symphony'', 1920 
* ''Punch: The Immortal Liar, Documents in His History'', 1921 
* ''Priapus and the Pool'', 1922 
* ''The Pilgrimage of Festus'', 1923 
* ''Priapus and the Pool, and Other Poems'', 1925 
* ''Selected Poems'', 1929 
* ''John Deth, A Metaphysical Legacy, and Other Poems'', 1930 
* ''The Coming Forth by Day of Osiris Jones'', 1931 
* ''Preludes for Memnon'', 1931 
* ''Landscape West of Eden'', 1934 
* ''Time in the Rock; Preludes to Definition'', 1936 
* ''And in the Human Heart'', 1940 
* ''Brownstone Eclogues, and Other Poems'', 1942 
* ''The Soldier: A Poem'', 1944 
* ''The Kid'', 1947 
* ''The Divine Pilgrim'', 1949 
* ''Skylight One: Fifteen Poems'', 1949 
* ''Collected Poems'', 1953
* ''A Letter from [[Li Po]] and Other Poems'', 1955 
* ''Sheepfold Hill: Fifteen Poems'', 1958 
* ''The Morning Song of Lord Zero, Poems Old and New'', 1963 
* ''Thee: A Poem'', 1967
* ''Collected Poems'', 2nd ed., 1970

===Short story collections===
* ''Bring! Bring! and Other Stories'' (1925)
* ''Costumes by Eros'' (1928)
* ''Among the Lost People'' (1934)
* ''The Short Stories of Conrad Aiken'' (1950)
* ''The Collected Short Stories of Conrad Aiken'' (1960)

===Novels===
* ''Blue Voyage'' (1927)
* ''Great Circle'' (1933)
* ''[[King Coffin]]'' (1935)
* ''A Heart for the Gods of Mexico'' (1939)
* ''The Conversation'' (1940)

===Other books===
* ''Scepticisms: Notes on Contemporary Poetry'' (1919)
* ''Ushant'' (1952)
* ''A Reviewer's ABC: Collected Criticism of Conrad Aiken from 1916 to the Present'' (1958)

===Short stories===
{| class="wikitable"
|+
|-
! Title !! Publication !! Collected in
|-
| "The Timid Burglar" || ''The Story Teller'' 14 (January 1903) || -
|-
| "The Making of the Trail" || ''[[Middlesex School|The Anvil]]'' (January 1904) || -
|-
| "My Lord's Pirate" || ''The Anvil'' (June 1904) || -
|-
| "The Dreamer" || ''The Anvil'' (November 1904) || -
|-
| "Number 58" || ''The Anvil'' (January 1905) || -
|-
| "How the Partnership Was Dissolved" || ''The Anvil'' (March 1905) || -
|-
| "The Fiddlers Three" || ''The Anvil'' (November 1905) || -
|-
| "Rabbit" || ''[[The Harvard Advocate]]'' (November 25, 1908) || -
|-
| "The Wallet" || ''The Harvard Advocate'' (December 18, 1908) || -
|-
| "The Cat and the Mouse" || ''The Harvard Advocate'' (January 26, 1909) || -
|-
| "The Murderer" || ''The Harvard Advocate'' (April 28, 1909) || -
|-
| "By the Hermitage Walls" || ''The Harvard Advocate'' (October 26, 1909) || -
|-
| "Me and Her" (with W.C. Greene) || ''The Harvard Advocate'' (November 20, 1909) || -
|-
| "Corpus Vile" || ''The Harvard Advocate'' (December 20, 1909) || -
|-
| "The Huntsman" || ''The Harvard Advocate'' (February 11, 1910) || -
|-
| "College Kodaks" || ''The Harvard Advocate'' (March 4, 1910) || -
|-
| "The Dark City" || ''[[The Dial]]'' (April 1922) || rowspan=4| ''Bring! Bring! and Other Stories''
|-
| "Soliloquy on a Park Bench" || ''The Dial'' (June 1922)
|-
| "The Escape from Fatuity" || ''The Milwaukee Arts Monthly'' (November-December 1922)
|-
| "Smith and Jones" || ''The Dial'' (April 1923)
|-
| "White Crinolines" || ''[[Munsey's Magazine]]'' (June 1923) || -
|-
| "The Disciple" || ''[[Harper's Magazine]]'' (December 1924) || rowspan=9| ''Bring! Bring! and Other Stories''
|-
| "Strange Moonlight" || ''The Dial'' (March 1925)
|-
| "The Last Visit" || ''The Dial'' (April 1925)
|-
| "The Letter" || rowspan=6| ''Bring! Bring! and Other Stories'' (March 1925)
|-
| "Bring! Bring!"
|-
| "Hey, Taxi!"
|-
| "The Anniversary"
|-
| "By My Troth, Nerisa!"
|-
| "The Orange Moth"
|-
| "State of Mind" || ''[[The New Republic]]'' (July 6, 1927) || rowspan=14| ''Costumes by Eros''
|-
| "The Necktie" || ''Bermondsey Book'' (September-November 1927)
|-
| "Your Obituary, Well Written" || ''[[Scribner's Magazine]]'' (November 1927)
|-
| "Spider, Spider" || ''Scribner's Magazine'' (February 1928)
|-
| "The Woman-Hater" || ''Scribner's Magazine'' (April 1928)
|-
| "The Moment" || ''Harper's Magazine'' (May 1928)
|-
| "All, All Wasted" || ''The Harvard Advocate'' (May 1928)
|-
| "Farewell! Farewell! Farewell!" || ''Scribner's Magazine'' (August 1928)
|-
| "Field of Flowers" || rowspan=6| ''Costumes by Eros'' (September 1928)
|-
| "I Love You Very Dearly"
|-
| "A Man Alone at Lunch"
|-
| "A Conversation"
|-
| "The Professor's Escape"
|-
| "West End"
|-
| "The Fish Supper" || ''Scribner's Magazine'' (December 1928) || rowspan=12| ''Among the Lost People''
|-
| "No, No, Go Not to Lethe" || ''Scribner's Magazine'' (August 1929)
|-
| "Gehenna" || ''Gehenna'' (1930)
|-
| "Mr. Arcularis" || ''Harper's Magazine'' (March 1931)
|-
| "Bow Down, Isaac!" || ''Harper's Magazine'' (July 1931)
|-
| "[[Silent Snow, Secret Snow]]" || ''[[Virginia Quarterly Review]]'' (October 1932)
|-
| "Impulse" || ''[[Story (magazine)|Story]]'' (April 1933)
|-
| "O How She Laughed!" || rowspan=5| ''Among the Lost People'' (March 1934)
|-
| "The Night Before Prohibition"
|-
| "Pure as the Driven Snow"
|-
| "The Bachelor Supper"
|-
| "Thistledown"
|-
| "Life Isn't a Short Story" || ''[[North American Review]]'' (June 1934) || ''The Short Stories of Conrad Aiken''
|-
| "Fly Away Ladybird" || ''[[Esquire (magazine)|Esquire]]'' (November 1934) || ''The Collected Short Stories of Conrad Aiken''
|-
| "Round By Round" || ''[[The American Mercury]]'' (April 1935) || rowspan=3| ''The Short Stories of Conrad Aiken''
|-
| "A Pair of Vikings" || ''Esquire'' (March 1941)
|-
| "Hello, Tib" || ''[[Mademoiselle (magazine)|Mademoiselle]]'' (May 1941)
|-
|}

==References==
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==External links==
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{{Commons category|Conrad Aiken}}
*{{Gutenberg author |id=570| name=Conrad Aiken}}
*{{Internet Archive author |sname=Conrad Potter Aiken}}
*{{Librivox author |id=2723}}
*[http://www.blackcatpoems.com/a/conrad_aiken.html Poems by Conrad Aiken] An extensive collection of Aiken's poetry
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20060929032831/http://www.harvardsquarelibrary.org/unitarians/aiken.html Conrad Aiken: Unitarian Prodigy Poet] Biography
*{{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927194037/http://www.litweb.net/biography/189/Conrad_Aiken.html |date=September 27, 2007 |title=LitWeb.net: Conrad Aiken Biography}}
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20110930074056/http://www.geckotales.com/bonaventure_cemetery.htm Conrad Aiken's Grave in Savannah, Georgia]
*[http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-454&sug=y New Georgia Encyclopedia entry] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121010134233/http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-454&sug=y |date=October 10, 2012 }}
*[http://theotherpages.org/poems/poem-ab.html#aiken Index entry for Conrad Aiken at Poets' Corner]
*[http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/conrad_aiken/biography Famous Poets and Poems, Aiken Biography]
*[http://www.bookrags.com/biography/conrad-aiken/ Bookrags.com]
*[http://www.libs.uga.edu/gawriters/aiken.html Libs.uga.edu]
*[http://nbapoetryblog.squarespace.com/journal/2011/2/18/1954.html Collected Poems by Conrad Aiken on the National Book Awards Poetry Blog] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140403153805/http://nbapoetryblog.squarespace.com/journal/2011/2/18/1954.html |date=April 3, 2014 }}
*{{webarchive |url=https://archive.today/20130102064616/http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poet/conrad-aiken.html |date=January 2, 2013 |title=Conrad Aiken at University of Toronto Libraries}}
*[http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.Hough:hou01346 Guides to Conrad Aiken's prose], [http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.Hough:hou01345 poetry], and [http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.Hough:hou01347 correspondence] at [https://web.archive.org/web/20111121125844/http://hcl.harvard.edu/libraries/houghton/ Houghton Library], Harvard University
*{{cite journal |url=http://www.theparisreview.org/viewinterview.php/prmMID/4283 |title=Conrad Aiken, The Art of Poetry No. 9 |journal=The Paris Review |date=Winter–Spring 1968 |author=Robert Hunter Wilbur|volume=Winter-Spring 1968 |issue=42 }}
*[http://georgiainfo.galileo.usg.edu/topics/historical_markers/county/chatham/conrad-aiken Conrad Aiken] historical marker
*[http://pid.emory.edu/ark:/25593/8xx26 Conrad Aiken] at the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library

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