By all accounts, Aldous Huxley was a brilliant and voracious thinker and artist whose creative output knew no literary bounds. This volume gathers some of his best-remembered verse, including the memorable title poem, which is a sequence of 22...
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By all accounts, Aldous Huxley was a brilliant and voracious thinker and artist whose creative output knew no literary bounds. This volume gathers some of his best-remembered verse, including the memorable title poem, which is a sequence of 22 thematically interwoven sonnets
Title; Contents; The Defeat of Youth; Song of Poplars; The Reef; Winter Dream; The Flowers; The Elms; Out of the Window; Inspiration; Summer Stillness; Anniversaries; Italy; The Alien; A Little Memory; Waking; By the Fire; Valedictory; Love Song; Private Property; Revelation; Minoan Porcelain; The Decameron; In Uncertainty to a Lady; Crapulous Impression; The Life Theoretic; Complaint of a Poet Manqué; Social Amenities; Topiary; On the Bus; Points and Lines; Panic; Return from Business; Stanzas; Poem; Scenes of the Mind; L'après-Midi D'Un Faune; The Louse-Hunters;
A Hollywood millionaire with a terror of death, whose personal physician happens to be working on a theory of longevity-these are the elements of Huxley's caustic and entertaining satire on man's desire to live indefinitely. "A highly sensational...
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A Hollywood millionaire with a terror of death, whose personal physician happens to be working on a theory of longevity-these are the elements of Huxley's caustic and entertaining satire on man's desire to live indefinitely. "A highly sensational plot that will keep astonishing you to practically the final sentence." -The New Yorker
