Huxley, Aldous (Vol. 5) | Huxley, Aldous 1894–1963
Huxley, Aldous 1894–1963
Huxley was a British-American novelist, short story writer, and essayist whose work is distinguished by tremendous variety and brilliance. One critic has written that Huxley was "able to articulate the intellectual and moral conflicts being fought in the collective soul of the twentieth century" and, indeed, all of Huxley's work may be read as a search for values in the absence of traditional sources of value—love, religion, and family life.
Fictionally, Huxley reveals himself many times as an experimenter in technique; and there is nothing tentative or uncertain in the achieved form of his prose-poems [Stanford is reviewing Huxley's Collected Poetry]. Quite apart from the virtuosity and wit which they so scintillatingly reveal, they are of importance in showing how much Huxley was influenced in his poetry by French models. Reading them, one thinks of Baudelaire and his experiments in 'the other harmony of prose',...
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