The Burning Wheel
Aldous Huxley
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
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
The last poem was read collaboratively by ezwa, AlgyPug and Larry Wilson. (0 hr 46 min)
Chapters
The Burning Wheel | 2:13 | Read by Larry Wilson |
Doors of the Temple | 1:09 | Read by Elizabeth Buchanan |
Villiers de L'Isle-Adam | 1:08 | Read by Algy Pug |
Darkness | 0:57 | Read by J. McDougall |
Mole | 3:19 | Read by Algy Pug |
The Two Seasons | 1:19 | Read by Larry Wilson |
Two Realities | 0:57 | Read by Elizabeth Buchanan |
Quotidian Vision | 0:55 | Read by J. McDougall |
Vision | 0:50 | Read by Elizabeth Buchanan |
The Mirror | 0:59 | Read by Carol |
Variations on a Theme of Laforgue | 0:40 | Read by Rik Ahlberg |
Philosophy | 0:29 | Read by Rik Ahlberg |
Philoclea in the Forest | 3:20 | Read by Algy Pug |
Books and Thoughts | 1:08 | Read by Tanner Bayles |
Contrary to Nature and Aristotle | 0:54 | Read by TimoleonWash |
Escape | 1:07 | Read by Winston Tharp |
The Garden | 1:09 | Read by Tanner Bayles |
The Canal | 1:13 | Read by Winston Tharp |
The Ideal found wanting | 1:19 | Read by Elizabeth Buchanan |
Misplaced Love | 1:21 | Read by Carol |
(First) Sonnet | 1:20 | Read by Algy Pug |
Sentimental Summer | 1:14 | Read by Algy Pug |
The Choice | 1:03 | Read by Algy Pug |
The Higher Sensualism | 1:19 | Read by Algy Pug |
(Second) Sonnet | 1:08 | Read by Algy Pug |
Formal Verses | 1:26 | Read by Winston Tharp |
Perils of the Small Hours | 1:20 | Read by Larry Wilson |
Complaint | 0:56 | Read by Carol |
Return to an Old Home | 1:16 | Read by Winston Tharp |
Fragment | 1:11 | Read by Winston Tharp |
The Walk | 8:17 | Read by LibriVox Volunteers |