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The Burning Wheel

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Though Aldous Huxley is best known for his later novels and essays, he started his writing career as a poet. The Burning Wheel is his first work, a collection of thirty poems that pay homage in style to poets who wrote in the Romantic or the French symbolist styles. Many of the poems deal with themes of light, darkness, sight, music, art, war, and idealism vs. realism. Though the optimism in his early works waned as he became older, his characteristically optimistic and determined point of view shines through. - Summary by Mary Kay
The last poem was read collaboratively by ezwa, AlgyPug and Larry Wilson. (0 hr 46 min)

Chapters

The Burning Wheel

2:13

Read by Larry Wilson

Doors of the Temple

1:09

Read by Elizabeth Buchanan

Villiers de L'Isle-Adam

1:08

Read by Algy Pug

Darkness

0:57

Read by J. McDougall

Mole

3:19

Read by Algy Pug

The Two Seasons

1:19

Read by Larry Wilson

Two Realities

0:57

Read by Elizabeth Buchanan

Quotidian Vision

0:55

Read by J. McDougall

Vision

0:50

Read by Elizabeth Buchanan

The Mirror

0:59

Read by Carol

Variations on a Theme of Laforgue

0:40

Read by Rik Ahlberg

Philosophy

0:29

Read by Rik Ahlberg

Philoclea in the Forest

3:20

Read by Algy Pug

Books and Thoughts

1:08

Read by Tanner Bayles

Contrary to Nature and Aristotle

0:54

Read by TimoleonWash

Escape

1:07

Read by Winston Tharp

The Garden

1:09

Read by Tanner Bayles

The Canal

1:13

Read by Winston Tharp

The Ideal found wanting

1:19

Read by Elizabeth Buchanan

Misplaced Love

1:21

Read by Carol

(First) Sonnet

1:20

Read by Algy Pug

Sentimental Summer

1:14

Read by Algy Pug

The Choice

1:03

Read by Algy Pug

The Higher Sensualism

1:19

Read by Algy Pug

(Second) Sonnet

1:08

Read by Algy Pug

Formal Verses

1:26

Read by Winston Tharp

Perils of the Small Hours

1:20

Read by Larry Wilson

Complaint

0:56

Read by Carol

Return to an Old Home

1:16

Read by Winston Tharp

Fragment

1:11

Read by Winston Tharp

The Walk

8:17

Read by LibriVox Volunteers