By Emily Petermann After the publication of his first book of poetry, The Burning Wheel, in 1916, Aldous Huxley’s second book,[1] The Defeat of Youth and Other Poems, appeared in August 1918 with Blackwell. This little volume begins with the eponymous poem, actually a sequence of twenty-two sonnets, which Jerome Meckier called “the century’s most… Continue Reading The Defeat of Youth and Other Poems