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The complete poems of the most admired British poet of his generation

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 In addition to those that appear in Collected Poems (1988) and Early Poems and Juvenilia (2005), some unpublished pieces from Larkin''s typescripts and workbooks are included, as well as verseby turns scurrilous, satirical, affectionate, and sentimentalthat had been tucked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. 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

The Complete Poems

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    A Paperback / softback by Philip Larkin, Professor of English Archie Burnett

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      Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux
      Published 2 April 2013
      ISBN-13 9780374533663
      978-0374533663
      ISBN-10 0374533660

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      The complete poems of the most admired British poet of his generation

      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 In addition to those that appear in Collected Poems (1988) and Early Poems and Juvenilia (2005), some unpublished pieces from Larkin''s typescripts and workbooks are included, as well as verseby turns scurrilous, satirical, affectionate, and sentimentalthat had been tucked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. 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

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