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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. â?oThe Defeat of Youthâ?? 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 â?oleans, 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.â?? As the young man awakens to the life of another, his vision turns tragically pure, molding an image of â?oimmanence divine,â?? a face â?oin a flash of laughterâ?? and a â?oyoung body with an inward flame.â?? As the poem unfolds, however, he feels only shame to have touched â?othings deadly to be desired.â?? Throughout this collection, Huxley explores the poetâ?Ts tendency to sing and to praise the worldâ?Ts fleeting beauty while â?o[o]ther young men have been battling with the days / And others have been kissing the beautiful women.â?? The Defeat of Youth and Other Poems is the work of a poet uncertain of his visionary gift, doubtful of his artâ?Ts worth or purpose, yet sure of the power of language. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Aldous Huxleyâ?Ts The Defeat of Youth and Other Poems is a classic of English literature reimagined for modern readers.
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