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On the Margin - Notes and Essays - cover

On the Margin - Notes and Essays

Aldous Huxley

Publisher: Blackmore Dennett

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Summary

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)
Available since: 02/08/2019.

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