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  • For the benefit of Pound and the poet Conrad Aiken, Eliot periodically breaks into light verse about a character named "King Bolo" and his wife.

    Notes From King Bolo Abigail Deutsch 2011

  • Steven Kaye draws our attention to the classic Conrad Aiken story "Silent Snow, Secret Snow" 1934.

    Information, Culture, Policy, Education: Winter at Infocult 2007

  • We passed the graves of Bonaventure's two most famous residents, Johnny Mercer and Conrad Aiken — Mercer's epitaph affirming a hereafter in which angels sing, Aiken's raising the specter of doubt and of destinations unknown.

    Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil Berendt, John 1994

  • It happened that the poet Conrad Aiken had lived as a child in the house right next to Marshall Row-at number 228, the house in which Aiken's father had shot his mother and then himself on that terrible morning in February 1901.

    Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil Berendt, John 1994

  • It happened that the poet Conrad Aiken had lived as a child in the house right next to Marshall Row — at number 228, the house in which Aiken's father had shot his mother and then himself on that terrible morning in February 1901.

    Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil Berendt, John 1994

  • Professor Donoghue's level-headed sermon makes clear that his main sin lay in choosing to become Conrad Aiken.

    Becoming Conrad Aiken Butscher, Edward 1989

  • I would like to comment on Professor Donoghue's fireside chat about my tastefully designed, handsomely jacketed Conrad Aiken: Poet of White Horse Vale, University of Georgia Press, $34.95, illustrated [NYR, December 22, 1988].

    Becoming Conrad Aiken Butscher, Edward 1989

  • Selected Letters of Conrad Aiken, edited by Joseph Killorin, will be published next year by Yale University Press.

    Not So Definitive Aiken, Mary H. 1977

  • With regard to Edward Butscher's letter (March 3) planning a "definitive biography of Conrad Aiken," I have not given permission to Mr. Butscher for the use of publication in any form of the private papers or letters of Conrad Aiken.

    Not So Definitive Aiken, Mary H. 1977

  • Mr. Jay Martin is described on the jacket of this book as a thirty-four-year-old professor of English at a California university and the author of two earlier books, one on Conrad Aiken, the other on American literary history from 1865 to 1914.

    Doing West Dupee, F.W. 1970

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