Philip Larkin
Stephen Regan(Editor)
Palgrave Macmillan (Publisher)
Published on 3. September 1997
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Hardback
280 pages
978-0-333-60483-0 (ISBN)
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Description
Since his death in 1985, Philip Larkin's reputation as a writer has undergone a profound and dramatic transformation. With the publication of a candid biography, a controversial collection of letters and a comprehensive edition of the poems, the abiding interests and concerns of Larkin criticism have been radically altered. At the same time, the impact of literary theory has brought a new set of critical perspectives and approaches to bear on the poetry. The essays in this volume abandon the tired cliches of an older critical consensus and offer a lively, provocative response to such issues as sexual politics, national identity and post-colonialism in the work of a writer widely regarded as the best Poet Laureate Britain never had.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Basingstoke
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
further reading, index
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 138 mm
Weight
476 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-333-60483-0 (9780333604830)
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Content
Acknowledgements - General Editors' Preface - Introduction; Stephen Regan - The Main of Light; Seamus Heaney - Philip Larkin and Symbolism; Andrew Motion - Philip Larkin: After Symbolism; Barbara Everett - Philip Larkin: The Metonymic Muse; David Lodge - Reading 'Deceptions': A Dramatic Conversation; Graham Holderness - 'Get Out As Early As You Can': Larkin's Sexual Politics; Steve Clark - Difficulties with Girls; Janice Rossen - Into the Heart of Englishness; Tom Paulin - Margins of Tolerance: Responses to Post-war Decline; Stan Smith - Philip Larkin: Lyricism, Englishness and Postcoloniality; James Booth - Larkin's Identities; Andrew Swarbrick - Alas! Deceived; Alan Bennett - Further Reading - Notes on Contributors - Index