The Complete Poems
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| Rating | : | 4.93 (752 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0374533660 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 768 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-03-14 |
| Language | : | English |
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MinnesotaMind said The Less Decieved and more. To my own surprise and embarrassment this was my first, real engagement with Larkin outside an anthologized poem or two like "Here."I've been told that Larkin's style and topical interest varies a bit in quality from work to work; but the poems in this collection are simply ste. Deborah Womack said Read more poetry!. Book came in perfect condition. I love P.L. poems.. Five Stars Read him. That is all
A reader can now trace Larkin's development from his allusive early efforts to his more mature, better-known works.” The Economist“Apart from representing an unprecedented Larkin poetic storehouse, the other glory of The Complete Poems is Burnett's dazzlingly detailed commentary One of the chief pleasures is tracing the emergence of one of English poetry's most distinctive poetic voices A landmark volume, a wonder-book of verse by one of the art form's best practitioners of the last hundred years.” Terry Kelly, The London Magazine. Full of reassuring exactitude about variants, and extensive reference to the poet's own comments on the work, they are most stimulating of all when they cite buried sources A lot of thought as well as an enormous amount of research has clearly gone into this volume.” Fiona Sampson, The Independent“Archie Burnett presents a very different picture of Larkin from the one by whic
Philip Larkin (1922-1985) grew up in Coventry, England. E. He has edited the Oxford editions of The Poems of A. He was the best-loved poet of his generation and the recipient of innumerable honors, including the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry.Archie Burnett is co-director of the Editorial Institute and professor of English at Boston University. Housman.. Housman and The Letters of A. E
Archie Burnett's commentary establishes Larkin as a more complex and more literary poet than many readers have suspected.. In addition to those that appear in Collected Poems (1988) and Early Poems and Juvenilia (2005), some unpublished pieces from Larkin's typescripts and workbooks are included, as well as verseby turns scurrilous, satirical, affectionate, and sentimentalthat had been tucked away in his letters. For the first time, Larkin's poems are given a comprehensive commentary. The complete poems of the most admired British poet of his generationThis entirely new edition brings together all of Philip Larkin's poems. This draws critically upon, and substantially extends, the accumulated scholarship on Larkin, and covers closely relevant historical contexts, persons and places, allusions and echoes, and linguistic usage. Prominence is given to the poet's comments on his own work, which often outline the circumstances that gave rise to a poem or state that he was trying to achieve. Larkin often played down his literariness, but his poetry enrichingly alludes to and echoes the writings of many others