The Defeat of Youth, and Other Poems
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Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden Leaf Printing on round Spine (extra customization on request like complete leather, Golden Screen printing in Front, Color Leather, Colored book etc.) Reprinted in 2018 with the help of original edition published long back [1918]. This book is printed in black & white, sewing binding for longer life, Printed on high quality Paper, re-sized as per Current standards, professionally processed without changing its contents. As these are old books, we processed each page manually and make them readable but in some cases some pages which are blur or m...
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- HE DEFEAT OF YOUTH AND OTHER POEMS BY ALDOUS HUXLEY, AUTHOR OF "THE BURNING WHEEL."
- CONTENTS
- THE DEFEAT OF YOUTH
- I. UNDER THE TREES.
- II.
- III.
- IV.
- V.
- VI. IN THE HAY-LOFT.
- VII.
- VIII. MOUNTAINS.
- IX.
- X. IN THE LITTLE ROOM.
- XI.
- XII.
- XIII.
- XIV.
- XV.
- XVI.
- XVII. IN THE PARK.
- XVIII.
- XIX.
- XX. SELF-TORMENT.
- XXI.
- XXII. THE QUARRY IN THE WOOD.
- SONG OF POPLARS
- THE REEF
- WINTER DREAM
- THE FLOWERS
- THE ELMS
- OUT OF THE WINDOW
- INSPIRATION
- SUMMER STILLNESS
- ANNIVERSARIES
- ITALY
- THE ALIEN
- A LITTLE MEMORY
- WAKING
- VALEDICTORY
- LOVE SONG
- PRIVATE PROPERTY
- REVELATION
- MINOAN PORCELAIN
- THE DECAMERON
- IN UNCERTAINTY TO A LADY
- CRAPULOUS IMPRESSION (To J.S.)
- THE LIFE THEORETIC
- COMPLAINT OF A POET MANQUÉ
- SOCIAL AMENITIES
- TOPIARY
- ON THE BUS
- POINTS AND LINES
- PANIC
- RETURN FROM BUSINESS
- STANZAS
- POEM
- SCENES OF THE MIND
- L'APRÈS-MIDI D'UN FAUNE (From the French of Stéphane Mallarmé.)
- THE LOUSE-HUNTERS (From the French of Rimbaud).
- THIS THIRD OF THE INITIATES SERIES OF POETRY BY PROVED HANDS, WAS PRINTED IN OXFORD AT THE VINCENT WORKS, AND FINISHED IN JUNE, MCMXVIII. PUBLISHED BY B. H. BLACKWELL, BROAD STREET, OXFORD, AND SOLD IN AMERICA BY LONGMANS, GREEN & CO., NEW YORK. NITIATES A SERIES OF POETRY BY PROVED HANDS UNIFORM VOLUMES IN DOLPHIN OLD STYLE TYPE ART, BOARDS, THREE SHILLINGS NET.
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