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.