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After Many a Summer (1939) is a novel by Aldous Huxley that tells the story of a Hollywood millionaire who fears his impending death. It was published in the United States as After Many a Summer Dies the Swan.
- Aldous Huxley
- 1939
Tithonus is a mythological figure who asks for immortality from the goddess Eos, but is cursed to age while she remains young and beautiful. The poem explores his despair, regret and longing as he watches her pass through the seasons and the ages.
The woods decay, the woods decay and fall, The vapours weep their burthen to the ground, Man comes and tills the field and lies beneath, And after many a summer dies the swan.
The woods decay, the woods decay and fall, The vapours weep their burthen to the ground, Man comes and tills the field and lies beneath, And after many a summer dies the swan.
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Both have a somewhat naïve Oxford graduate if not as the hero, then as a major character, who struggles to cope with American ways. However, while Waugh likes nothing better than to attack and satirise, Huxley is now in his American phase and looking at life (and death) in a different way.
A Hollywood millionaire with a terror of death, whose personal physician happens to be working on a theory of longevity-these are the elements of Aldous Huxley's caustic and entertaining satire on man's desire to live indefinitely.
