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On The Margin: Notes And Essays
ON THE MARGIN contains short form non-fiction articles and essays from master-author Aldous Huxley.
This book contains the following chapters (with descriptions):
Centenaries; (about Percy Bysshe Shelley, 100 years after his death)
On Re-reading “Candide”; (about the book published in 1759 by Voltaire)
Accidie; (about a type of demon and its occurrence in classical literature)
Subject-matter of Poetry; (from Wordsworth to modern)
Water Music; (musical properties of water, Dadaism)
Pleasures; (the effect of too much pleasure on civilization)
Modern Folk Poetry; (about McGlennon’s Pantomime Annual)
Bibliophily; (Nouvelle Revue Française)
Democratic Art; (The Will of Song)
Accumulations; (The deliberate preservation of things must be compensated for by their deliberate and judicious destruction)
On Deviating into Sense; (No one will ever know the history of all the happy mistakes that have helped to enrich the world’s art)
Polite Conversation; (The American Credo, by H. L. Mencken and George Jean Nathan)
Nationality in Love; (Les Baisers and Songs of Love and Life)
How the Dats Draw In!; (Some day I shall compile an Oxford Book of Depressing Verse)
Tibet; (Three Years in Tibet, the Theosophical Society, Kawaguchi, the Dalai Lama)
Beauty in 1920; (The process by which one type of beauty becomes popular, imposes its tyranny for a period and then is displaced by a dissimilar type is a mysterious one)
Great Thoughts; (Pensées sur la Science, la Guerre et sur des sujets très variés. The book contains some twelve or thirteen thousand quotations)
Advertisement; (about writing ad copy)
Euphues Redivivus; (Delina Delaney by Amanda M. Ros)
The Author of “Eminent Victorians”; (Books and Characters by Lytton Strachey)
Edward Thomas; (about his poetry)
A Wordsworth Anthology; (Wordsworth: an Anthology, edited by T. J. Cobden-Sanderson. R. Cobden-Sanderson)
Ferhaeren; (Émile Adolphe Gustave Verhaeren, a Belgian poet)
Edward Lear; (literary nonsense in poetry)
Sir Christopher Wren; (celebrating the English architect’s bi-centenary)
Ben Jonson; (by G. Gregory Smith., English Men of Letters Series)
Chaucer (with Chaucer the ordinary fossilizing process, to which every classical author is subject, has been complicated by the petrifaction of his language)
This book contains the following chapters (with descriptions):
Centenaries; (about Percy Bysshe Shelley, 100 years after his death)
On Re-reading “Candide”; (about the book published in 1759 by Voltaire)
Accidie; (about a type of demon and its occurrence in classical literature)
Subject-matter of Poetry; (from Wordsworth to modern)
Water Music; (musical properties of water, Dadaism)
Pleasures; (the effect of too much pleasure on civilization)
Modern Folk Poetry; (about McGlennon’s Pantomime Annual)
Bibliophily; (Nouvelle Revue Française)
Democratic Art; (The Will of Song)
Accumulations; (The deliberate preservation of things must be compensated for by their deliberate and judicious destruction)
On Deviating into Sense; (No one will ever know the history of all the happy mistakes that have helped to enrich the world’s art)
Polite Conversation; (The American Credo, by H. L. Mencken and George Jean Nathan)
Nationality in Love; (Les Baisers and Songs of Love and Life)
How the Dats Draw In!; (Some day I shall compile an Oxford Book of Depressing Verse)
Tibet; (Three Years in Tibet, the Theosophical Society, Kawaguchi, the Dalai Lama)
Beauty in 1920; (The process by which one type of beauty becomes popular, imposes its tyranny for a period and then is displaced by a dissimilar type is a mysterious one)
Great Thoughts; (Pensées sur la Science, la Guerre et sur des sujets très variés. The book contains some twelve or thirteen thousand quotations)
Advertisement; (about writing ad copy)
Euphues Redivivus; (Delina Delaney by Amanda M. Ros)
The Author of “Eminent Victorians”; (Books and Characters by Lytton Strachey)
Edward Thomas; (about his poetry)
A Wordsworth Anthology; (Wordsworth: an Anthology, edited by T. J. Cobden-Sanderson. R. Cobden-Sanderson)
Ferhaeren; (Émile Adolphe Gustave Verhaeren, a Belgian poet)
Edward Lear; (literary nonsense in poetry)
Sir Christopher Wren; (celebrating the English architect’s bi-centenary)
Ben Jonson; (by G. Gregory Smith., English Men of Letters Series)
Chaucer (with Chaucer the ordinary fossilizing process, to which every classical author is subject, has been complicated by the petrifaction of his language)
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First published January 1, 1923
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Aldous Huxley
953 books13.7k followersAldous Leonard Huxley was an English writer and philosopher. His bibliography spans nearly 50 books, including non-fiction works, as well as essays, narratives, and poems.
Born into the prominent Huxley family, he graduated from Balliol College, Oxford, with a degree in English literature. Early in his career, he published short stories and poetry and edited the literary magazine Oxford Poetry, before going on to publish travel writing, satire, and screenplays. He spent the latter part of his life in the United States, living in Los Angeles from 1937 until his death. By the end of his life, Huxley was widely acknowledged as one of the foremost intellectuals of his time. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature nine times, and was elected Companion of Literature by the Royal Society of Literature in 1962.
Huxley was a pacifist. He grew interested in philosophical mysticism, as well as universalism, addressing these subjects in his works such as The Perennial Philosophy (1945), which illustrates commonalities between Western and Eastern mysticism, and The Doors of Perception (1954), which interprets his own psychedelic experience with mescaline. In his most famous novel Brave New World (1932) and his final novel Island (1962), he presented his visions of dystopia and utopia, respectively.
Born into the prominent Huxley family, he graduated from Balliol College, Oxford, with a degree in English literature. Early in his career, he published short stories and poetry and edited the literary magazine Oxford Poetry, before going on to publish travel writing, satire, and screenplays. He spent the latter part of his life in the United States, living in Los Angeles from 1937 until his death. By the end of his life, Huxley was widely acknowledged as one of the foremost intellectuals of his time. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature nine times, and was elected Companion of Literature by the Royal Society of Literature in 1962.
Huxley was a pacifist. He grew interested in philosophical mysticism, as well as universalism, addressing these subjects in his works such as The Perennial Philosophy (1945), which illustrates commonalities between Western and Eastern mysticism, and The Doors of Perception (1954), which interprets his own psychedelic experience with mescaline. In his most famous novel Brave New World (1932) and his final novel Island (1962), he presented his visions of dystopia and utopia, respectively.
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May 25, 2020This is a volume of short essays published in 1923. That makes it the Huxley of Crome Yellow, the elegantly cynical spinner of words, even then deeply assured, urbane and terrifyingly well-read. Not necessarily essential reading, but the intelligent, polished products of a very clever man.
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