The Defeat of Youth and Other Poems


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Though later known for his essays and novels, Aldous Huxley started his writing career as a poet. Published in 1918, The Defeat of Youth and Other Poems is his third compilation of poetry.

The volume begins with "The Defeat of Youth", a sequence of twenty-two sonnets that explores irreconcilability of the ideal and the disappointing reality. Jerome Meckier called it “the century’s most successful sonnet sequence, better than Auden’s or Edna St. Vincent Millay’s.” In the rest of the volume, Huxley continues to explore themes started in The Burning Wheel, his first volume of poetry, including vision, blindness, and other contrasts.

The volume concludes with two English translations by Huxley of two French poems: Stéphane Mallarmé’s 1876 poem “L’Après-midi d’un faune" and Arthur Rimbaud’s (1871) poem “Les Chercheuses de poux,” translated as “The Louse Hunters.” Summary by Mary Kay. (1 hr 23 min)

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The Defeat of Youth: Under the Trees 5:10 Leído por Arthur Krolman
The Defeat of Youth: In the Hay-Loft 2:15 Leído por Arthur Krolman
The Defeat of Youth: Mountains 2:16 Leído por Arthur Krolman
The Defeat of Youth: In the Little Room 6:54 Leído por Arthur Krolman
The Defeat of Youth: In the Park 3:08 Leído por Arthur Krolman
The Defeat of Youth: Self Torment 2:11 Leído por Arthur Krolman
The Defeat of Youth: The Quarry in the Wood 1:20 Leído por bundy98
Song of Poplars 2:07 Leído por Arthur Krolman
The Reef 3:42 Leído por Renkotsu
Winter Dream 1:53 Leído por Arthur Krolman
The Flowers 1:06 Leído por Arthur Krolman
The Elms 1:14 Leído por Arthur Krolman
Out of the Window 1:50 Leído por bundy98
Inspiration 0:53 Leído por bundy98
Summer Stillness 0:48 Leído por Arthur Krolman
Anniversaries 2:50 Leído por Renkotsu
Italy 2:15 Leído por Arthur Krolman
The Alien 0:49 Leído por Arthur Krolman
A Little Memory 0:55 Leído por Arthur Krolman
Waking 2:13 Leído por Renkotsu
By the Fire 2:11 Leído por Larry Wilson
Valedictory 2:40 Leído por Arthur Krolman
Love Song 1:38 Leído por Arthur Krolman
Private Property 1:11 Leído por bundy98
Revelation 1:01 Leído por bundy98
Minoan Porcelain 0:56 Leído por Arthur Krolman
The Decameron 1:22 Leído por Arthur Krolman
In Uncertainty to a Lady 0:44 Leído por bundy98
Crapulous Impression 1:59 Leído por Arthur Krolman
The Life Theoretic 1:05 Leído por bundy98
Complaint of a Poet Manqué 1:26 Leído por Arthur Krolman
Social Amenities 0:54 Leído por Arthur Krolman
Topiary 1:09 Leído por Arthur Krolman
On the Bus 0:58 Leído por Arthur Krolman
Points and Lines 0:54 Leído por Arthur Krolman
Panic 0:52 Leído por Arthur Krolman
Return from Business 0:38 Leído por Arthur Krolman
Stanzas 1:57 Leído por Arthur Krolman
Poem 1:50 Leído por Larry Wilson
Scenes of the Mind 2:54 Leído por J. McDougall
L'Après-Midi D'un Faune 7:09 Leído por Larry Wilson
The Louse-Hunters 2:01 Leído por Arthur Krolman