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The Burning Wheel (Paperback)
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The Burning Wheel (Paperback)
Series: Mint Editions
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Loot Price R117
Discovery Miles 1 170
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The Burning Wheel (1916) is a collection of poems by English author
Aldous Huxley. Published when the poet was only twenty-two, The
Burning Wheel captures the mind of an artist at its earliest
fertile stage, enthralled with a world either blooming with change
or wilting with all-out war. Although Huxley is known foremost as a
novelist, his poetry exhibits a mastery of language and an uncommon
sense of the music inherent to words. "The Burning Wheel" opens the
collection with a kaleidoscopic vision of life and creation,
illuminating the poet's debt to the French Symbolists. "Weary of
its own turning," the burning wheel slows for a moment's rest. This
wheel, both machine and pure, wild flame, is the poet compelled to
create, the mind that "[w]akes from the sleep of its quiet
brightness / And burns with a darkening passion and pain." In
"Quotidian Vision," Huxley returns to earth to remark: "There is a
sadness in the street / And sullenly the folk I meet / Droop their
heads as they walk along." In these simple, rhyming couplets, the
poet channels the verse and vision of William Blake to see, despite
the "mist of cold and muffling grey," a "dead world move for him
once more / With beauty for its living core." The Burning Wheel is
a compelling collection from an artist whose poetry is no less
remarkable for having gone mostly unnoticed. With a beautifully
designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition
of Aldous Huxley's The Burning Wheel is a classic of English
literature reimagined for modern readers.
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