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The Defeat of Youth and Other Poems (Paperback)
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The Defeat of Youth and Other Poems (Paperback)
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Loot Price R142
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The Defeat of Youth and Other Poems (1918) is a collection of poems
by English author Aldous Huxley. 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 Defeat of Youth
and Other Poems is his third poetry collection. "The Defeat of
Youth" is a moving sonnet sequence on the passage of innocence to
experience, on familiar transformation of love into lust. Capturing
the experience of youthful attraction, Huxley imagines the moment
in which the beloved "leans, and there is laughter in the face /
She turns toward him; and it seems a door / Suddenly opened on some
desolate place / With a burst of light and music." As the young man
awakens to the life of another, his vision turns tragically pure,
molding an image of "immanence divine," a face "in a flash of
laughter" and a "young body with an inward flame." As the poem
unfolds, however, he feels only shame to have touched "things
deadly to be desired." Throughout this collection, Huxley explores
the poet's tendency to sing and to praise the world's fleeting
beauty while "[o]ther young men have been battling with the days /
And others have been kissing the beautiful women." The Defeat of
Youth and Other Poems is the work of a poet uncertain of his
visionary gift, doubtful of his art's worth or purpose, yet sure of
the power of language. With a beautifully designed cover and
professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Aldous Huxley's
The Defeat of Youth and Other Poems is a classic of English
literature reimagined for modern readers.
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