THE HOUSE OF DUST
A Symphony

BY
CONRAD AIKEN

To Jessie

NOTE

. . . Parts of this poem have been printed in “The North American
Review, Others, Poetry, Youth, Coterie, The Yale Review”. . . . I am
indebted to Lafcadio Hearn for the episode called “The Screen Maiden”
in Part II.

This text comes from the source available at
Project Gutenberg, originally prepared by Judy Boss
of Omaha, NE.

Analysis, meaning and summary of Conrad Aiken's poem The House Of Dust: Introduction

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