¶ Aiken: Conrad Aiken
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Aiken: Conrad Aiken:
"His problem as a poet is that he was preoccupied with
turning inward-- the feeding of the ego-- a completely
monological poetry, just at a time when this great
revolution of world man and concern for otherness is
breaking through. Thomas Wolfe and “You Can’t Go Home Again,”,
it’s the same situation. . . . Of course, the time will
come again when we will swing away again from the group
situation and can afford again to be interested in turning
inward."
- RBF to EJA on Northeast Airlines Flight to Boston,
14 Feb '72 after reading Mark Schorer piece on
Aiken in February Atlantic.
