Conrad Aiken: The Poet
Most widely recognized as a poet, Conrad Aiken has achieved distinction for his short stories, novels, essays, and recently his autobiographical narrative, Ushant. On the occasion of his Collected Poems, published this fall by Oxford University Press, the Atlantic invited the distinguished critic and Princeton scholar,R. P. BLACKMUR, to evaluate Mr. Aiken's contribution to letters and to explore the creative process of the poet.