The Burning Wheel

About this film

LibriVox recording of The Burning Wheel by Aldous Huxley. Read in English by LIbrivox Volunteers. The last poem was read collaboratively by ezwa, AlgyPug and silverquill. 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 For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording. For more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit LibriVox.org . Download M4B (21MB)

Directors & creators

Aldous Huxley

Subjects

librivox; audiobooks;art; sonnets; war; music; greek mythology; light; realism; idealism; sight; darkness; oxford; turn of the century; optimism; early work; tetrameter; iambic pentameter; romantic style; french symbolist; 1910s; 1916; poetry;

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