Aiken, Conrad (Potter)

(1889--1973)

Poet and novelist, born in Savannah, Gerorgia,. Conrad Aiken studied at Harvard, and made his name with his first collection of verse, Earth Triumphant (1914). His Selected Poems was awarded the 1930 Pulitzer Prize. He also wrote short stories and novels, including the autobiographical novel Ushant (1952).

1) 1914 - - Earth Triumphant and Other Tales in Verse
2) 1916 - - Turns and Moves and Other Tales in verse
3) 1916 - - The Jig of Forslin: A Symphony
4) 1917 - - Nocturnes of Remembered Spring and Other Poems
5) 1918 - - The Charnel Rose; Senlin: A Biography; and Other poems
6) 1919 - - Scepticisms: Notes on Contemporary Poetry [ literary criticism]
7) 1920 - - The House of Dust: A Symphony
8) 1921 - - Punch: The Immortal Liar, Documents in His History
9) 1922 - - Priapus and the Pool
10) 1923- - The Pilgrimage of Festus
11) 1925- - Priapus and the Pool and Other Poems
12) 1925- - Bring! Bring! And Other Stories
13) 1927- - Blue Voyage - - - [novel]
14) 1929- - Selected Poems
15) 1930- - John Deth, a Metaphysical Legend and Other Poems
16) 1931- - The Coming Forth by Day of Osiris Jones
17) 1931- - Preludes for Memnon
18) 1933- - And in the Hanging Garden
19) 1933- - Great Circle - - - [novel]
20) 1935- - Landscape West of Eden
21) 1935- - King Coffin - - - [novel]
22) 1936- - Time in the Rock: Preludes to Definition
23) 1939- - A Heart for the Gods of Mexico- - -[novel]
24) 1940- - And in the Human Heart
25) 1940- - Conversation: or a Pilgrim's Progress - - -[novel]
26) 1942- - Brownstone Eclogues and Other Poems
27) 1944- - The Solider: A Poem
28) 1947- - The Kid
29) 1949- - Skylight One: Fifteen Poems
30) 1949- - The Divine Pilgrim
31) 1952- -Ushant: An Essay - - - [fictionalized autobiography]
32) 1953- - Collected Poems
33) 1953- - Mr. Arcularis - - [play]
34) 1955- - A Letter From Li Po and Other Poems
35) 1958- - A Reviewer's ABC - - -[literary criticism]
36) 1958- - Sheepfold Hill: Fifteen Poems
37) 1960- - The Collected Short Stories of Conrad Aiken
38) 1961- - Selected Poems
39) 1963- - The Morning Song of Lord Zero
40) 1964- - The Collected Novels of Conrad Aiken
41) 1965 Cats and Bats and Things with Wings [children's book]
42) 1968- - Collected Poems
43) 1968- - Collected Criticism
44) 1970- - Collected Poems
45) 1977- - A Little Who's Zoo of Mild Animals [children's book]
46) 1978- - Selected Letters of Conrad Aiken
47) 1980- - Selected Poems