The Sublime Mundane in Conrad Aiken’s “Morning Song of Senlin” (Part 2)

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Wes & Erin continue their discussion of Aiken’s “Morning Song of Senlin,” and whether humanity’s religious impulses can be fully compensated with an aesthetic or ironic relation to nature and cosmic scale.

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