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KBP DEFINITIONS
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 Heruary Atlantic.