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