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Keywords
- David Herbert Lawrence
- poem
- poet
- poetry
- poet
- poetics
- poetry
- twentieth century
About this book
Philip Larkin and English Poetry is a practical criticism of Larkin's poetry which discusses the poet's views on poetry as they are made visible in his prose writings and his interviews, Larkin's affinities with a series of other English poets (including Dr Samuel Johnson, D.H. Lawrence and the Imagists, and Ted Hughes, Thom Gunn and R.S. Thomas) which have been overlooked by previous critics are referred to, and Terry Whalen provides close readings of the individual poems that will appeal to both the first-time reader of Larkin's works and those who are seasoned readers of England's finest poet. Whalen stresses the depth and integrity of the `other' Larkin, the poet of beauty and of witness who explores the world of observation with a hunger for meaning and a sense of wonder which earlier reviewers and critics have tended to ignore.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Philip Larkin and English Poetry
Authors: T. Whalen
Series Title: Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 1986
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-333-39816-6Published: 16 February 1990
Softcover ISBN: 978-0-333-52282-0Published: 16 February 1990
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 164