Burning Wheel

Burning Wheel

by Aldous Huxley

The Burning Wheel is Aldous Huxley's first work, a collection of thirty poems that pay homage in style to poets who wrote in the Romantic or the French symbolist styles. Published in 1916, many of the poems deal with themes of light, darkness, sight, music, art, war, and idealism vs. realism.

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Huxley was born in Godalming, Surrey, England, in 1894. He was the third son of the writer and schoolmaster Leonard Huxley, who edited Cornhill Magazine. As a child, Huxley's nickname was "Ogie", shor...

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