Philip Larkin [electronic resource] : the poet's plight / by James Booth.
James Booth reads Philip Larkin's mature poetry in terms of his ambiguous self-image as lonely, anti-social outsider, plighted to his art, and as nine-to-five librarian, sharing the common plight of humanity. Larkin is a poet of inexpressible transcendence, but also of afternoons in the park, h...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2005.
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| Summary: | James Booth reads Philip Larkin's mature poetry in terms of his ambiguous self-image as lonely, anti-social outsider, plighted to his art, and as nine-to-five librarian, sharing the common plight of humanity. Larkin is a poet of inexpressible transcendence, but also of afternoons in the park, housing estates, ambulances, and the toad work. Whether discussing Larkin's poems of love and intimacy or uncovering his hidden metaphorical structures, Booth's focus is always on Larkin's artistry with words, the 'verbal devices' through which this purest of lyric poets celebrates 'the experience. The beauty'. Featuring discussion for the first time of two recently discovered poems by Larkin, this original and exciting new study will be of interest to all students, scholars and enthusiasts of Larkin. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (ix, 230 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-222) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780230595828 0230595820 1349514179 9781349514175 |