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The Complete Poems of Philip Larkin

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Description for The Complete Poems of Philip Larkin Paperback. Brings together Philip Larkin's poems. In this book, due prominence is given to the poet's comments on his poems, which often outline the circumstances that gave rise to a poem, or state what he was trying to achieve. Editor(s): Burnett, Archie. Num Pages: 768 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DCF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 157 x 32. Weight in Grams: 908.

This entirely new edition brings together all of Philip Larkin's poems. In addition to those in Collected Poems (1988), and in the Early Poems and Juvenilia (2005), some unpublished pieces from Larkin's typescripts and workbooks are included, as well as verse (by turns scurrilous, satirical, affectionate, and sentimental) tucked away in his letters. The manuscript and printed sources have been scrutinized afresh; more detailed accounts than hitherto available of the sources of the text and of dates of composition are provided; and previous accounts of composition dates have been corrected. Variant wordings ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
New
Number of Pages
768
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780571240074
SKU
9780571240074
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-2

About Philip Larkin
Archie Burnett is co-director (with Christopher Ricks) of the Editorial Institute and Professor of English at Boston University. He has edited the scholarly Oxford editions of The Poems of A. E. Housman (1997) and The Letters of A. E. Housman (2007). Philip Larkin was born in 1922 and grew up in Coventry. In 1955 he ... Read more

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