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The Defeat of Youth and Other Poems
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.

“The Defeat of Youth” 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 “leans, 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.” As the young man awakens to the life of another, his vision turns tragically pure, molding an image of “immanence divine,” a face “in a flash of laughter” and a “young body with an inward flame.” As the poem unfolds, however, he feels only shame to have touched “things deadly to be desired.” Throughout this collection, Huxley explores the poet’s tendency to sing and to praise the world’s fleeting beauty while “[o]ther young men have been battling with the days / And others have been kissing the beautiful women.” The Defeat of Youth and Other Poems is the work of a poet uncertain of his visionary gift, doubtful of his art’s worth or purpose, yet sure of the power of language.

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The Art of Seeing

The Art of Seeing

Aldous Huxley

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Point Counter Point

Point Counter Point

Aldous Huxley

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Antic Hay

Antic Hay

Aldous Huxley

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Point Counter Point

Point Counter Point

Aldous Huxley

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Point Counter Point

Point Counter Point

Aldous Huxley

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Selected Poems Aldous Huxley

Selected Poems Aldous Huxley

Aldous Huxley

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Brave New World: A Graphic Novel

Brave New World: A Graphic Novel

Aldous Huxley, Fred Fordham

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Brief Candles. Four Stories.

Brief Candles. Four Stories.

Aldous Huxley

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Antic Hay

Antic Hay

Aldous Huxley

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Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited

Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited

Aldous Huxley

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Limbo

Limbo

Aldous Huxley

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The Defeat of Youth and Other Poems

The Defeat of Youth and Other Poems

Aldous Huxley

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Limbo

Limbo

Aldous Huxley

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The Burning Wheel

The Burning Wheel

Aldous Huxley

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The Burning Wheel

The Burning Wheel

Aldous Huxley

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Crome Yellow

Crome Yellow

Aldous Huxley

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Mortal Coils

Mortal Coils

Aldous Huxley

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Those Barren Leaves

Those Barren Leaves

Aldous Huxley

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Antic Hay

Antic Hay

Aldous Huxley

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Antic Hay

Antic Hay

Aldous Huxley

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Limbo

Limbo

Aldous Huxley

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Mortal Coils

Mortal Coils

Aldous Huxley

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Brave New World - Schöne neue Welt. Königs Erläuterungen.

Brave New World - Schöne neue Welt. Königs Erläuterungen.

Sabine Hasenbach, Aldous Huxley

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Brave New World - Schöne neue Welt. Königs Erläuterungen.

Brave New World - Schöne neue Welt. Königs Erläuterungen.

Sabine Hasenbach, Aldous Huxley

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After the Fireworks

After the Fireworks

Aldous Huxley, Gary Giddins

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After the Fireworks

After the Fireworks

Aldous Huxley, Gary Giddins

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Jacob's Hands

Jacob's Hands

Christopher Isherwood, Aldous Huxley

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The Devils of Loudun

The Devils of Loudun

Aldous Huxley

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A Teacher's Guide to Brave New World

A Teacher's Guide to Brave New World

Aldous Huxley, Amy Jurskis

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Brave New World Revisited

Brave New World Revisited

Aldous Huxley

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Point Counter Point

Point Counter Point

Aldous Huxley

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Brave New World

Brave New World

Aldous Huxley

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The Ultimate Brave New World

The Ultimate Brave New World

Aldous Huxley

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Time Must Have A Stop

Time Must Have A Stop

Aldous Huxley

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Those Barren Leaves

Those Barren Leaves

Aldous Huxley

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Antic Hay

Antic Hay

Aldous Huxley

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Brave New World

Brave New World

Aldous Huxley

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Eyeless In Gaza

Eyeless In Gaza

Aldous Huxley

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Eyeless In Gaza

Eyeless In Gaza

Aldous Huxley

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The Doors Of Perception & Heaven And Hell

The Doors Of Perception & Heaven And Hell

Aldous Huxley

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After Many A Summer Dies The Swan

After Many A Summer Dies The Swan

Aldous Huxley

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The Genius And The Goddess

The Genius And The Goddess

Aldous Huxley

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The Doors Of Perception

The Doors Of Perception

Aldous Huxley

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Heaven And Hell

Heaven And Hell

Aldous Huxley

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Ape And Essence

Ape And Essence

Aldous Huxley

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Island

Island

Aldous Huxley

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Point Counter Point

Point Counter Point

Aldous Huxley

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Brave New World Revisited

Brave New World Revisited

Aldous Huxley

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Crome Yellow

Crome Yellow

Aldous Huxley

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The Divine Within

The Divine Within

Aldous Huxley, Huston Smith

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Crome Yellow

Crome Yellow

Aldous Huxley

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The Genius and the Goddess

The Genius and the Goddess

Aldous Huxley, Huxley trusts and heirs

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Mark Twain's Medieval Romance

Mark Twain's Medieval Romance

Unknown

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Crome Yellow

Crome Yellow

Aldous Huxley

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Crome Yellow

Crome Yellow

Aldous Huxley

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Mortal Coils

Mortal Coils

Aldous Huxley

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Brave New World

Brave New World

Aldous Huxley

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Brave New World Revisited

Brave New World Revisited

Aldous Huxley

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Antic Hay

Antic Hay

Aldous Huxley

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The Doors of Perception

The Doors of Perception

Aldous Huxley

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The Doors of Perception

The Doors of Perception

Aldous Huxley

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Brave New World

Brave New World

Aldous Huxley

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Brave New World

Brave New World

Aldous Huxley

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Crome Yellow

Crome Yellow

Aldous Huxley

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Moksha

Moksha

Aldous Huxley

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Moksha

Moksha

Aldous Huxley

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After Many a Summer Dies the Swan

After Many a Summer Dies the Swan

Aldous Huxley

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Collected Short Stories

Collected Short Stories

Aldous Huxley

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