The Complete Poems of Philip Larkin

Philip Larkin, Archie Burnett (ed)

ISBN 10: 0374126968 / ISBN 13: 9780374126964

Verlag: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012

Top edge of dust jacket is lightly bumped and has a 0.25-inch cosmetic tear at spine. Top and bottom edges of book spine are bumped, but binding is tight. Inside is clean and unmarked. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 1134467

Inhaltsangabe:

This entirely new edition brings together all of Philip Larkin's poems. In addition to those that appear in Collected Poems (1988) and Early Poems and Juvenilia (2005), some unpublished pieces from Larkin's typescripts and workbooks are included, as well as verse—by turns scurrilous, satirical, affectionate, and sentimental—that had been tucked away in his letters.

For the first time, Larkin's poems are given a comprehensive commentary. 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 poems, which often outline the circumstances that gave rise to a poem or state what he was trying to achieve. Larkin often played down his literariness, but his poetry enrichingly alludes to and echoes the writings of many others; Archie Burnett's commentary establishes him as a more complex and more literary poet than many readers have suspected.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor:

Philip Larkin (1922-1985) grew up in Coventry, England. 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. He has edited the Oxford editions of The Poems of A. E. Housman and The Letters of A. E. Housman.

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Titel: The Complete Poems of Philip Larkin
Verlag: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
Einband: Hard cover
Zustand: Very good
Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very good