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Born in August 5, 1889 / Died in August 17, 1973 / United States / English

Bibliography

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POETRY

  • Earth Triumphant, and Other Tales in Verse,Macmillan, 1914, reprinted, St. Martin's, 1975.
  • The Jig of Forslin—A Symphony,Four Seas, 1916, reprinted, International Pocket Library, 1965.
  • Turns and Movies, and Other Tales in Verse,Houghton, 1916, reprinted, R. West, 1976.
  • Nocturne of Remembered Spring, and Other Poems,Four Seas, 1917.
  • The Charnel Rose, Senlin: A Biography, and Other Poems,Four Seas, 1918, reprinted, Haskell House, 1971.
  • The House of Dust—A Symphony,Four Seas, 1920.
  • Punch: The Immortal Liar, Documents in His History,Knopf, 1921.
  • Priapus and the Pool,Dunster House, 1922.
  • The Pilgrimage of Festus,Knopf, 1923.
  • Senlin: A Biography,Hogarth Press, 1925.
  • Selected Poems,Scribner, 1929.
  • Gehenna,Random House, 1930, reprinted, R. West, 1977.
  • John Deth—A Metaphysical Legend, and Other Poems,Scribner, 1930.
  • Preludes for Memnon(also see below), Scribner, 1931.
  • The Coming Forth by Day of Osiris Jones,Scribner, 1931.
  • Prelude: A Poem,Equinox, 1932, reprinted, Arden Library, 1978.
  • Landscape West of Eden,Dent, 1934, Scribner, 1935.
  • Time in the Rock: Preludes to Definition(also see below), Scribner, 1936.
  • And in the Human Heart,Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1940.
  • Brownstone Eclogues, and Other Poems,Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1942.
  • The Soldier: A Poem,New Directions, 1944.
  • The Kid,Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1947.
  • The Divine Pilgrim,University of Georgia Press, 1949.
  • Skylight One: Fifteen Poems,Oxford University Press, 1949.
  • Collected Poems,Oxford University Press, 1953, 2nd edition, 1970.
  • A Letter from Li Po, and Other Poems,Oxford University Press, 1955.
  • The Fluteplayer,privately printed, 1956.
  • Sheepfold Hill: Fifteen Poems,Sagamore Press, 1958.
  • Selected Poems(new selection), Oxford University Press, 1961.
  • The Morning Song of Lord Zero—Poems Old and New,Oxford University Press, 1963.
  • A Seizure of Limericks,Holt, 1964.
  • Cats and Bats and Things with Wings(poems for children), Atheneum, 1965.
  • Tom, Sue, and the Clock(poem for children), Macmillan, 1965.
  • Preludes (contains Preludes for Memnon and Time in the Rock: Preludes to Definition), Oxford University Press, 1966.
  • Thee,illustrations by Leonard Baskin, Braziller, 1967, published with illustrations by Gillian Ruff, limited edition, Inca Books, 1973.
  • The Clerk's Journal, Being the Diary of a Queer Man: An Undergraduate Poem, Together with a Brief Memoir of Harvard, Dean Briggs, and T. S. Eliot,Eakins, 1971.
  • A Little Who's Zoo of Mild Animals, Atheneum, 1977.
SHORT STORIES
  • Bring! Bring!, and Other Stories,Boni & Liveright, 1925.
  • Costumes by Eros,Scribner, 1928.
  • Among the Lost People,Scribner, 1934.
  • The Short Stories of Conrad Aiken,Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1950.
  • Collected Short Stories,World Publishing, 1960.
  • The Collected Short Stories of Conrad Aiken, Preface by Walter Allen, Heinemann, 1966.
NOVELS
  • Blue Voyage(also see below), Scribner, 1927.
  • Great Circle(also see below), Scribner, 1933.
  • King Coffin(also see below), Scribner, 1935.
  • A Heart for the Gods of Mexico,Secker, 1939, reprinted, R. West, 1977.
  • Conversation; or, Pilgrims' Progress,Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1940.
  • Collected Novels,introduction by R. P. Blackmur, Holt, 1964.
  • Three Novels: Blue Voyage, Great Circle, King Coffin, preface by Aiken, McGraw, 1965.
EDITOR OR COMPILER
  • Modern American Poets, Selected by Conrad Aiken,Secker, 1922, revised edition, Modern Library, 1927.
  • (And author of introduction) Emily Dickinson, Selected Poems,J. Cape, 1924, reprinted, Modern Library, 1948.
  • American Poetry, 1671-1928: A Comprehensive Anthology,Modern Library, 1929.
  • A Comprehensive Anthology of American Poetry,Modern Library, 1944, revised edition, 1963.
  • Twentieth-Century American Poetry,Modern Library, 1944, newly revised edition, with preface by Aiken, 1963.
  • (With William Rose Benet) Anthology of Famous English and American Poetry, Modern Library, 1945.
OTHER
  • Skepticisms: Notes on Contemporary Poetry,Knopf, 1919, reprinted, Folcroft, 1969.
  • (Author of foreword) Thomas Hardy, Two Wessex Tales,Four Seasons, 1919.
  • Ushant: An Essay(autobiography), Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1952.
  • Mr. Arcularis: A Play (first published in Among the Lost People; produced as "Fear No More,"in London, 1946, produced in Washington, D.C., 1951), Harvard University Press, 1957.
  • A Reviewer's ABC: Collected Criticism, Meridian, 1958, published as Collected Criticism,introduction by Rufus A. Blanshard, new preface by I. A. Richards, Oxford University Press, 1968.
  • (Contributor) Howard Nemerov, editor, Poets on Poetry,Basic Books, 1965.
  • Selected Letters of Conrad Aiken,edited by Joseph Killorin, Yale University Press, 1978.
  • The Letters of Conrad Aiken and Malcolm Lowry, 1929-1954, edited and introduced by Cynthia C. Sugars, ECW Press (Toronto), 1992.
Contributor to Massachusetts: A Guide to its Places and People, 1937.