Chapter I: Front Matter

_THE
PHOENIX LIBRARY_

ANTIC HAY

_THE PHOENIX LIBRARY_

QUEEN VICTORIA _by_ Lytton Strachey
EMINENT VICTORIANS Lytton Strachey
ANTIC HAY Aldous Huxley
ALONG THE ROAD Aldous Huxley
TALES OF THE FIVE TOWNS Arnold Bennett
THE MERCY OF ALLAH Hilaire Belloc
LADY INTO FOX and A MAN IN THE ZOO (1 vol.) David Garnett
BOOKS & CHARACTERS Lytton Strachey
FIERY PARTICLES C. E. Montague
FIRST PLAYS A. A. Milne
CROME YELLOW Aldous Huxley
ART Clive Bell
DISENCHANTMENT C. E. Montague
THOSE BARREN LEAVES Aldous Huxley
VISION AND DESIGN Roger Fry
ESSAYS OF A BIOLOGIST Julian Huxley
PLAYS Richard Hughes
LIMBO Aldous Huxley
SECOND PLAYS A. A. Milne
THE RIGHT PLACE C. E. Montague
THE SAILOR’S RETURN David Garnett
MORTAL COILS Aldous Huxley
MR. WESTON’S GOOD WINE T. F. Powys
LOLLY WILLOWES Sylvia Townsend Warner
ON THE MARGIN Aldous Huxley
THE GRIM SMILE OF THE FIVE TOWNS Arnold Bennett
TARR Wyndham Lewis
LITTLE MEXICAN Aldous Huxley

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ANTIC HAY

_By_

ALDOUS HUXLEY

CHATTO AND WINDUS
LONDON

First published November 1923

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MY MEN LIKE SATYRS GRAZING ON THE LAWNS
SHALL WITH THEIR GOAT-FEET DANCE THE ANTIC HAY.
_Marlowe_

ANTIC HAY