
Philip Larkin
Stephen Regan(Author)
Palgrave Macmillan (Publisher)
Published on 17. February 1992
Book
Paperback/Softback
152 pages
978-0-333-47497-6 (ISBN)
Description
Following the recent publication of Philip Larkin's Collected Poems, this study draws on a previously unavailable range of work extending from 1938 to 1983. In the course of its survey, the book exposes the limitations of narrowly thematic and formalist criticism, but it treats with equal scepticism the fashionable tendency to regard Larkin as a 'symbolist' poet. In his appraisal Stephen Regan argues strongly for the importance of reading the poems historically and contextually. 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.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Basingstoke
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Paperback (UK-trade)
Illustrations
references, index
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 138 mm
Weight
201 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-333-47497-6 (9780333474976)
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Content
PART 1 SURVEY - Philip Larkin and the Movement - Gentility in English Poetry - Thematic Approaches - Linguistic Approaches - Modernism and Symbolism - PART 2 APPRAISAL - Historicist Criticism - PART 3 REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING