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Poem of the Day: ‘Morning Song of Senlin’

The voice of Conrad Aiken’s Senlin discloses a character who might have shaken hands with T.S. Eliot’s J. Alfred Prufrock, and the poem has a peculiarly memorable lyrical enchantment.

Maximilien Luce, 'Morning, Interior,' 1890.
Maximilien Luce, 'Morning, Interior,' 1890. Metropolitan Museum of Art via Wikimedia Commons

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