The Defeat of Youth and Other Poems


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Though later known for his essays and novels, Aldous Huxley started his writing career as a poet. Published in 1918, The Defeat of Youth and Other Poems is his third compilation of poetry.

The volume begins with "The Defeat of Youth", a sequence of twenty-two sonnets that explores irreconcilability of the ideal and the disappointing reality. Jerome Meckier called it “the century’s most successful sonnet sequence, better than Auden’s or Edna St. Vincent Millay’s.” In the rest of the volume, Huxley continues to explore themes started in The Burning Wheel, his first volume of poetry, including vision, blindness, and other contrasts.

The volume concludes with two English translations by Huxley of two French poems: Stéphane Mallarmé’s 1876 poem “L’Après-midi d’un faune" and Arthur Rimbaud’s (1871) poem “Les Chercheuses de poux,” translated as “The Louse Hunters.” Summary by Mary Kay. (1 hr 23 min)

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The Defeat of Youth: Under the Trees 5:10 Gelesen von Arthur Krolman
The Defeat of Youth: In the Hay-Loft 2:15 Gelesen von Arthur Krolman
The Defeat of Youth: Mountains 2:16 Gelesen von Arthur Krolman
The Defeat of Youth: In the Little Room 6:54 Gelesen von Arthur Krolman
The Defeat of Youth: In the Park 3:08 Gelesen von Arthur Krolman
The Defeat of Youth: Self Torment 2:11 Gelesen von Arthur Krolman
The Defeat of Youth: The Quarry in the Wood 1:20 Gelesen von bundy98
Song of Poplars 2:07 Gelesen von Arthur Krolman
The Reef 3:42 Gelesen von Renkotsu
Winter Dream 1:53 Gelesen von Arthur Krolman
The Flowers 1:06 Gelesen von Arthur Krolman
The Elms 1:14 Gelesen von Arthur Krolman
Out of the Window 1:50 Gelesen von bundy98
Inspiration 0:53 Gelesen von bundy98
Summer Stillness 0:48 Gelesen von Arthur Krolman
Anniversaries 2:50 Gelesen von Renkotsu
Italy 2:15 Gelesen von Arthur Krolman
The Alien 0:49 Gelesen von Arthur Krolman
A Little Memory 0:55 Gelesen von Arthur Krolman
Waking 2:13 Gelesen von Renkotsu
By the Fire 2:11 Gelesen von Larry Wilson
Valedictory 2:40 Gelesen von Arthur Krolman
Love Song 1:38 Gelesen von Arthur Krolman
Private Property 1:11 Gelesen von bundy98
Revelation 1:01 Gelesen von bundy98
Minoan Porcelain 0:56 Gelesen von Arthur Krolman
The Decameron 1:22 Gelesen von Arthur Krolman
In Uncertainty to a Lady 0:44 Gelesen von bundy98
Crapulous Impression 1:59 Gelesen von Arthur Krolman
The Life Theoretic 1:05 Gelesen von bundy98
Complaint of a Poet Manqué 1:26 Gelesen von Arthur Krolman
Social Amenities 0:54 Gelesen von Arthur Krolman
Topiary 1:09 Gelesen von Arthur Krolman
On the Bus 0:58 Gelesen von Arthur Krolman
Points and Lines 0:54 Gelesen von Arthur Krolman
Panic 0:52 Gelesen von Arthur Krolman
Return from Business 0:38 Gelesen von Arthur Krolman
Stanzas 1:57 Gelesen von Arthur Krolman
Poem 1:50 Gelesen von Larry Wilson
Scenes of the Mind 2:54 Gelesen von J. McDougall
L'Après-Midi D'un Faune 7:09 Gelesen von Larry Wilson
The Louse-Hunters 2:01 Gelesen von Arthur Krolman