CR Episode 118: Introduction to Conrad Aiken
Critical Readings · Critical Readings
February 28, 20221h 12m
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Show Notes
The panel reads a selection of three poems by Conrad Aiken--"The Room", "Exile", and "Goya"--and discusses their dreamlike imagery, and the impact of personal tragedy, English Romanticism, and Freudian and Jungian theories, upon Aiken's poetry.