The House of Dust: A Symphony: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The House of Dust: A Symphony, credited to Conrad Aiken, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of The House of Dust: A Symphony by Conrad Aiken. Read in English by Expatriate The House of Dust is a poem written in the four-movement format of a classical symphony. Hauntingly beautiful despite its bleak post-World War I depictions of human mortality and loss, the poem develops its movements around central images such as Japanese ukiyo-e ("floating world") woodblock prints, touching the reader's senses with endlessly evocative allusions to wind, sea, and weather. In this underlying Japanese sensibility and dependence on central perceptual images, Aiken's poem is similar to poetry of Imagists of the time such as Amy Lowell. Also deeply influenced by the concepts of modern psychology, Aiken delved deeply into individual human identity and emotion. - Summary by Expatriate

Recording facts

• Recording title: The House of Dust: A Symphony
• Author credits: Conrad Aiken
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 4
• Listed recording duration: 2:21:30

Catalogue topics

• psychology
• symbolism
• post world war i poetry
• imagism

Track guide

1. 01 - Part 01 — 21:19
2. 02 - Part 02 — 28:34
3. 03 - Part 03 — 54:27
4. 04 - Part 04 — 37:10

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