Selected poems / Conrad Aiken ; with a new foreword by Harold Bloom.
Title:
Selected poems / Conrad Aiken ; with a new foreword by Harold Bloom.
Personal Author:
Uniform Title:
Poems. Selections
Publisher:
Oxford, U.K. ; New York : Oxford University Press,
Publication Date:
2003
ISBN:
9780195165463
9780195165470
General Note:
Includes index.
Contents:
Palimpsest: The Deceitful Portrait -- No, I Shall Not Say -- Senlin: A Biography -- Tetelestai -- Psychomachia -- Exile -- Samadhi -- King Borborigmi -- And in the Hanging Gardens -- The Wedding -- The Road -- Dead Leaf in May -- Sea Holly -- The Room -- Sound of Breaking -- Electra -- The Pomecitron Tree -- Changing Mind -- The Coming Forth Oby Day of Osiris Jones -- Preludes for Memnon -- Time in the Rock -- Landscape West of Eden -- Blues for Ruby Matrix -- The Kid -- Mayflower -- Hallowe'en -- A Letter from Li Po -- Another Lycidas -- The Crystal -- Discordants -- All Lovely Things -- Shaemus -- Dear Uncle Stranger -- Herman Melville -- The Morning Song of Lord Zero -- The Clover.
Abstract:
The author, a poet, short story writer, critic and novelist, has been called the most metaphysical, the most learned, and the most modern of poets. With writing that reflects an intense interest in psychological, philosophical, and scientific issues, he remains a unique influence upon modern writers and critics today. In his lifetime, he received many awards including the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1930 and the National Book Award for Poetry in 1954. He served as the Consultant in Poetry at the Library of Congress from 1950-1952. This collection contains his own choice of the best and most representative of his poems, spanning more than forty years of his work. A new inclusion of several pivotal poems from previous editions broadens the scope of the work to represent the writer's legacy.
Content Type:
text
Carrier Type:
volume
Genre:
Language:
English
