The Burning Wheel

By Aldous Huxley

Though Aldous Huxley is primarily remembered for his novels, and to a lesser extent his essays, he began his writing career as a poet. While a student at Balliol College at Oxford, having been exempted from military service due to extremely poor eyesight, he was involved in several student poetry magazines. In September 1916 his first book of poetry, "The Burning Wheel", appeared.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Endymion Press
• Release date: Apr 21, 2017
• ISBN: 9781537825298

Aldous Huxley

Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) was a prominent and successful English writer. Throughout his career he wrote over fifty books, and was nominated seven times for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Huxley wrote his first book, Crome Yellow, when he was seventeen years old, which was described by critics as a complex social satire. Huxley was both an avid humanist and pacifist and many of these ideals are reflected in his writing. Often controversial, Huxley’s views were most evident in the best-selling dystopian novel, Brave New World. The publication of Brave New Worldin 1931 rattled many who read it. However, the novel inspired many writers, Kurt Vonnegut in particular, to describe the book’s characters as foundational to the genre of science fiction. With much of his work attempting to bridge the gap between Eastern and Western beliefs, Aldous Huxley has been hailed as a writer ahead of his time.

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THE BURNING WHEEL

Aldous Huxley

ENDYMION PRESS

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

THE BURNING WHEEL.

DOORS OF THE TEMPLE.

VILLIERS DE L’ISLE-ADAM.

DARKNESS.

MOLE.

THE TWO SEASONS.

TWO REALITIES.

QUOTIDIAN VISION.

VISION.

THE MIRROR.

VARIATIONS ON A THEME OF LAFORGUE.

PHILOSOPHY.

PHILOCLEA IN THE FOREST.

BOOKS AND THOUGHTS.

CONTRARY TO NATURE AND ARISTOTLE.

ESCAPE.

THE GARDEN.

THE CANAL.

THE IDEAL FOUND WANTING.

MISPLACED LOVE.

SONNET.

SENTIMENTAL SUMMER.

THE CHOICE.

THE HIGHER SENSUALISM.

SONNET.

FORMAL VERSES.

PERILS OF THE SMALL HOURS.

COMPLAINT.

RETURN TO AN OLD HOME.

FRAGMENT.

THE WALK.

THE BURNING WHEEL.

~

Wearied of its own turning,

Distressed with its own busy restlessness,

Yearning to draw the circumferent pain—

The rim that is dizzy with speed—

To the motionless centre, there to rest,

The wheel must strain through agony

On agony contracting, returning

Into the core of steel.

And at last the wheel has rest, is still,

Shrunk