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32 Pearson Park, Hull My dear old creature, [...] Yesterday too I bought another cabbage. I find a good deal depends on one's cabbage of the moment. Last week's was tough & I am chucking away about half of it.
1 Review of W. S. Merwin's Green with Beasts and Kathleen Nott's Poems from the North, for the Manchester Guardian, 16 October 1956. Reprinted in Further Requirements. 2 L. was in process of moving to 32 Pearson Park.
With a new introduction written by the author, this edition offers an engrossing portrait of one of the twentieth century's most popular, and most private, poets.
The subtitle of Mayhew's fourth volume is 'Those That Will Not Work', and in Mayhew's account the woman, already over forty, is 'one of that lowest class of women who prostitute themselves for a shilling or less'.
The English fascist party, led by Sir Oswald Mosley, numbered some 50,000 members at its high point in 1934. However, it was in that year that public opinion began to turn against the Hitler regime, with news of the massacre known as ...
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A portrait of the influential 20th-century poet challenges negative portrayals of his character, drawing on insider access to discuss his formative years, political beliefs, academic rivalries and career-shaping relationships.
Philip Larkin
A stimulating study that places Larkin in his literary and personal context, discusses current controversies and literary criticism but, above all, perceptively explores all his major poems.
The emphasis here is on the post-war cultural milieu of Larkin's work and its complex engagement with questions of individual freedom and social commitment.
The author explores Larkin's poetry, novels, essays and jazz criticism.
Selected by Martin Amis, this book draws on Philip Larkin's four collections and on his uncollected poems.
A Significant Contribution To Larkin Studies, This Book Provides A Between-The-Lines Analysis Of Almost All The Poems Embodied In The Four Major Collections Of Larkin The North Ship, The Less Deceived, The Whitsun Weddings And High Windows ...
Philip Larkin
With a new introduction written by the author, this edition offers an engrossing portrait of one of the twentieth century's most popular, and most private, poets.
Philip Larkin: Writer
Controversy rages around Larkin's character and life. This book takes a fresh look at his poems through close analysis, discussion of Larkin's major concerns and demonstrating how to approach these enigmatic works.
This is a fresh and revealing study on Larkin's artistic subversion; stylistic and thematic, it reveals the underlying themes of Larkin's entire oeuvre.
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.