Though Aldous Huxley is best known for his later novels and essays, he started his writing career as a poet. This collection, The Burning Wheel, is his first published work. An assortment of thirty poems, it pays homage in style to poets who wrote in the Romantic or the French symbolist styles. Many of the poems deal with themes of light, darkness, sight, music, art, war, and idealism vs. realism. Though the optimism in his early works waned as he became older, his characteristically optimistic and determined point of view shines through. (Mary Kay)
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Set your recording software to:
Channels: 1 (Mono)
Bit Rate: 128 kbps
Sample Rate: 44.1 kHz
DURING recording: No more than 0.5 to 1 second of silence at the beginning of the recording!
At the beginning say: "[Poem title], from The Burning Wheel, by Aldous Huxley, read for LibriVox.org by [your name]" or some variation on that, adding date, location, your personal URL, etc., if you wish.
Then read the poem. In case of footnote: Please read the footnote after the poem assigned to it before you say "end of..."
At the end, say: "End of poem. This recording is in the public domain." and leave five seconds of silence.
At the end of the book, say (in addition): "End of The Burning Wheel by Aldous Huxley"
There should be 5 seconds silence at the end of the recording, or 10 seconds for files longer than 30 minutes.
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AFTER recording Need noise-cleaning?
Listen to your file through headphones. If you can hear some constant background noise (hiss/buzz), you may want to clean it up a bit. The new (free) version 1.3.3. of Audacity has much improved noise-cleaning. See this LibriVox wiki page for a complete guide. Save files as
128 kbps MP3
burningwheel_##_huxley_128kb.mp3 (all lower-case) where ## is the section number (e.g. burningwheel_01_huxley_128kb.mp3)
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Ah! I think I've missed Huxley's poetry . . . Thanks for bringing this volume to Librivox!
I would be happy to be DPL if you need one.
I'll wait for the magic window before claiming anything, but will definitely read something. The title poem is quite dramatic, and either narrator or He in the final poem would be great. But, I'll wait.
The Burning Wheel – 231 words
Doors of the Temple – 104 words
Villiers de L'Isle-Adam – 107 words / Darkness – 81 words
Mole – 343 words
The Two Seasons – 112 words / Two Realities – 111 words
Quotidian Vision – 79 words / Vision – 85 words
The Mirror – 57 words / Variations on a Theme of Laforgue – 57 words / Philosophy – 23 words
Philoclea in the Forest – 353 words
Books and Thoughts – 101 words
Contrary to Nature and Aristotle – 77 words / Escape – 82 words
The Garden – 103 words
The Canal – 103 words / The Ideal found wanting – 106 words
Misplaced Love – 104 words / Sonnet – 122 words
Sentimental Summer – 114 words / The Choice – 109 words
The Higher Sensualism – 135 words / Sonnet – 110 words
Formal Verses – 137 words
Perils of the Small Hours – 117 words / Complaint – 64 words
Return to an Old Home -120 words / Fragment – 98 words
The Walk:
Narrator- 526 words
He – 415 words
She – 100 words
I doubled up some of the poems because they are short, so I think I need less sections.
Hello! Newly graduated and occasional Librivox contributor.
My first LV recording was a Huxley poem... so I'll take this one.
I think each poem should get its own section though, it doesn't make sense to group some and not the others. You can use the shortened poetry disclaimer for this project though, that will help for the really tiny ones. Just edit your first post accordingly - in step 7. not anywhere below, I would not look anywhere else for the intro/outro.
Edit: MW is up. I have given you 34 sections, one for each poem plus an extra three for the dramatic one. Let me know if you need less or more sections.
Cheers, Ava.
Resident witch of LibriVox, channelling
Granny Weatherwax: "I ain't Nice."
-- AvailleAudio.com
Thank you!