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Six Poets

Author : Alan Bennett
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300215053
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Six Poets written by Alan Bennett and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The inimitable Alan Bennett selects and comments upon six favorite poets and the pleasures of their works In this candid, thoroughly engaging book, Alan Bennett creates a unique anthology of works by six well-loved poets. Freely admitting his own youthful bafflement with poetry, Bennett reassures us that the poets and poems in this volume are not only accessible but also highly enjoyable. He then proceeds to prove irresistibly that this is so. Bennett selects more than seventy poems by Thomas Hardy, A. E. Housman, John Betjeman, W. H. Auden, Louis MacNeice, and Philip Larkin. He peppers his discussion of these writers and their verse with anecdotes, shrewd appraisal, and telling biographical detail: Hardy lyrically recalls his first wife, Emma, in his poetry, although he treated her shabbily in real life. The fabled Auden was a formidable and off-putting figure at the lectern. Larkin, hoping to subvert snooping biographers, ordered personal papers shredded upon his death. Simultaneously profound and entertaining, Bennett's book is a paean to poetry and its creators, made all the more enjoyable for being told in his own particular voice. its creators, made all the more enjoyable for being told in his own particular voice.

The Art of Restraint

Author : Richard Hoffpauir
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
ISBN 13 : 9780874133783
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (337 download)

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Download or read book The Art of Restraint written by Richard Hoffpauir and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Hoffpauir argues that the works of the best poets have found ways of not capitulating to contemporary reality and outlines the terms of the debate by setting the weaknesses of Yeats against the strenghts of Hardy. Subsequent chapters discuss the nature poetry of Edward thomas; the war poetry of Graves, Blunden, and Gurney; the love poetry of Bridges, Lawrence, and Graves; and the political and social verse of Rickword, Daryush, Betjeman, and Larkin.

Of Love and Loss

Author : Tom McAlindon
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000578658
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Of Love and Loss written by Tom McAlindon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-02-24 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the poetry of Hardy, Yeats, and Larkin in relation to their shared preoccupation with time, change, and loss, the most ancient and fertile theme in lyric and reflective verse, known to earlier English poets as mutability. Though the importance of the socio-political and ideological context is in every case acknowledged, the literary-history context is viewed as primary: hence the introductory survey of foundational Renaissance and Romantic poets with whose work Hardy, Yeats, and Larkin were thoroughly familiar. Although a preoccupation with the subject of time and change in the work of these three poets is a critical commonplace, no one has ever isolated it for special attention, or used it to link them either together or with their historical predecessors. This is an entirely new approach to their work. The critical methodology employed is evidential and analytical rather than theoretical, focussed throughout on the meaning and the mood of each poem and the distinctive individuality of each poet.

Poems That Make Grown Men Cry

Author : Anthony Holden
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476712778
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (767 download)

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Download or read book Poems That Make Grown Men Cry written by Anthony Holden and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-04 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this unique poetry anthology, 100 grown men - bestselling authors, poets laureate, actors, producers and other prominent figures from the arts, sciences and politics, share the poems that have moved them to tears.

Young Thomas Hardy

Author : Robert Gittings
Publisher : Little Brown
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book Young Thomas Hardy written by Robert Gittings and published by Little Brown. This book was released on 1975 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Early Larkin

Author : James Underwood
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350197130
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Early Larkin written by James Underwood and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-07-15 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Astute." Times Literary Supplement Beginning in the late 1930s, this is the first book-length critical study of Larkin's early work: his poetry, novels, short fictions, essays, and letters. The book tells the story of Philip Larkin's early literary development, starting with Larkin's earliest literary efforts and his remarkable correspondence with Jim Sutton, and ending at the point Larkin's maturity begins, with the writing of his first great poems. In providing a comprehensive and systematic study of this part of Larkin's life, this book also presents a new and surprising narrative of Larkin's development. Critics have presented Larkin's early career as a false start which he overcame by swapping Yeats's influence for Hardy's. Having re-discovered Hardy's poetry in 1946, the story goes, Larkin realised the potential of writing about his own life, and disavowed Yeats. Central to this book's controversial counter-narrative is an insistence on the significance of Brunette Coleman, the female heteronym Larkin invented in 1943. Three years before his re-discovery of Hardy, Larkin wrote a strange and unique series of works for schoolgirls under Coleman's name. These writings not only led him away from Yeats and other hindering influences, but also away from himself. Whereas the Yeats-to-Hardy narrative emphasises the autobiographical qualities of Larkin's mature verse, Early Larkin proposes that the writer's breakthrough was a result of his burgeoning 'interest in everything outside himself' – itself the consequence of his curious experiment with Brunette Coleman.

Philip Larkin

Author : James Booth
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1408851679
Total Pages : 815 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Philip Larkin written by James Booth and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-28 with total page 815 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: _______________ 'Superb ... Booth's psychology is subtler than Motion's and more convincing' - Peter J. Conradi, Spectator 'Booth's diligence is unquestionable and even readers who think they know the poems will see nuances they had previously missed ... should render further attention by biographers superfluous for several years' - Guardian 'Those of us who never warmed to Larkin the man or poet, will have our aversions challenged by this sympathetic but different account of his life and work' - Independent _______________ A fascinating and controversial study of Philip Larkin's world and how it bled into his work, James Booth's biography is a unique insight into the man whose life and art have been misunderstood for too long Philip Larkin was that rare thing among poets: a household name in his own lifetime. Lines such as 'Never such innocence again' and 'Sexual intercourse began / In nineteen sixty-three' made him one of the most popular poets of the last century. Larkin's reputation as a man, however, has been more controversial. A solitary librarian known for his pessimism, he disliked exposure and had no patience with the literary circus. And when, in 1992, the publication of his Selected Letters laid bare his compartmentalised personal life, accusations of duplicity, faithlessness, racism and misogyny were levelled against him. There is, of course, no requirement that poets should be likeable or virtuous, but James Booth asks whether art and life were really so deeply at odds with each other. Can the poet who composed the moving 'Love Songs in Age' have been such a cold-hearted man? Can he who uttered the playful, self-deprecating words 'Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth' really have been so boorish? A very different public image is offered by those who shared the poet's life: the women with whom he was romantically involved, his friends and his university colleagues. It is with their personal testimony, including access to previously unseen letters, that Booth reinstates a man misunderstood: not a gaunt, emotional failure, but a witty, provocative and entertaining presence, delightful company; an attentive son and a man devoted to the women he loved. Meticulously researched, unwaveringly frank and full of fresh material, Philip Larkin: Life, Art and Love definitively reinterprets one of our greatest poets.

Twentieth-Century British and Irish Poetry

Author : Michael O'Neill
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0631215093
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (312 download)

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Download or read book Twentieth-Century British and Irish Poetry written by Michael O'Neill and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-01-31 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring contributions from some of the major critics of contemporary poetry, Twentieth-Century British and Irish Poetry offers an accessible, imaginative, and highly stimulating body of critical work on the evolution of British and Irish poetry in the twentieth-century Covers all the poets most commonly studied at university level courses Features criticisms of British and Irish poetry as seen from a wide variety of perspectives, movements, and historical contexts Explores current debates about contemporary poetry, relating them to the volume's larger themes Edited by a widely respected poetry critic and award-winning poet

Philip Larkin Poems

Author : Philip Larkin
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571271766
Total Pages : 121 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (712 download)

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Download or read book Philip Larkin Poems written by Philip Larkin and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2012-04-05 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time, Faber publish a selection from the poetry of Philip Larkin. Drawing on Larkin's four collections and on his uncollected poems. Chosen by Martin Amis. 'Many poets make us smile; how many poets make us laugh - or, in that curious phrase, "laugh out loud" (as if there's another way of doing it)? Who else uses an essentially conversational idiom to achieve such a variety of emotional effects? Who else takes us, and takes us so often, from sunlit levity to mellifluous gloom?... Larkin, often, is more than memorable: he is instantly unforgettable.' - Martin Amis

Philip Larkin and his Contemporaries

Author : Philip Hobsbaum
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349193291
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (491 download)

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Download or read book Philip Larkin and his Contemporaries written by Philip Hobsbaum and published by Springer. This book was released on 1988-07-26 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Cambridge Companion to English Poets

Author : Claude Julien Rawson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521874343
Total Pages : 581 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to English Poets written by Claude Julien Rawson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-01-27 with total page 581 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides essays by twenty-nine leading scholars and critics on the best English poets from Chaucer to Larkin.

Philip Larkin: Letters to Monica

Author : Philip Larkin
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571264611
Total Pages : 435 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (712 download)

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Download or read book Philip Larkin: Letters to Monica written by Philip Larkin and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2012-04-26 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philip Larkin met Monica Jones at University College Leicester in autumn 1946, when they were both twenty-four; he was the newly-appointed assistant librarian and she was an English lecturer. In 1950 Larkin moved to Belfast, and thence to Hull, while Monica remained in Leicester, becoming by turns his correspondent, lover and closest confidante, in a relationship which lasted over forty years until the poet's death in 1985. This remarkable unpublished correspondence only came to light after Monica Jones's death in 2001, and consists of nearly two thousand letters, postcards and telegrams, which chronicle - day by day, sometimes hour by hour - every aspect of Larkin's life and the convolutions of their relationship.

The Complete Poems of Philip Larkin

Author : Philip Larkin
Publisher : Faber & Faber Poetry
ISBN 13 : 9780571240074
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book The Complete Poems of Philip Larkin written by Philip Larkin and published by Faber & Faber Poetry. This book was released on 2014-09-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stunning new edition that brings together all of Larkin's poems in addition to some unpublished pieces.

Keeping On Keeping On

Author : Alan Bennett
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 0374716978
Total Pages : 680 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book Keeping On Keeping On written by Alan Bennett and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2017-11-07 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of Bennett’s diaries and essays, covering 2005 to 2015 Alan Bennett’s third collection of prose, Keeping On Keeping On, follows in the footsteps of the phenomenally successful Writing Home and Untold Stories. Bringing together the hilarious, revealing, and lucidly intelligent writing of one of England’s best-known literary figures, Keeping On Keeping On contains Bennett’s diaries from 2005 to 2015—with everything from his much celebrated essays to his irreverent comic pieces and reviews—reflecting on a decade that saw four major theater premieres and the films of The History Boys and The Lady in the Van. A chronicle of one of the most important literary careers of the twentieth century, Keeping On Keeping On is a classic history of a life in letters.

Selected Poems of Thomas Hardy

Author : Thomas Hardy
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781015603332
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Selected Poems of Thomas Hardy written by Thomas Hardy and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Philip Larkin

Author : Andrew Motion
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780571346677
Total Pages : 640 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (466 download)

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Download or read book Philip Larkin written by Andrew Motion and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philip Larkin: A Writer's Life won the Whitbread Award for Biography in 1993 and was championed as 'an exemplary biography of its kind' (The Times). With a new introduction written by the author, this edition offers an engrossing portrait of one of the twentieth century's most popular, and most private, poets. 'There will be other lives of Larkin, but Motion's, like Forster's of Dickens, will always have a special place.' John Carey, Sunday Times 'Larkin lived a quietly noble and exemplary version of the writer's life; Motion - affectionate but undeceived about the man's frailties, a diligent researcher and a deft reader of poetry - has written an equally exemplary 'Life' of him.' Peter Conrad, Observer 'Honest but not prurient, critical but also compassionate, Motion's book could not be bettered.' Alan Bennett, London Review of Books

Further Requirements

Author : Philip Larkin
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571294960
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (712 download)

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Download or read book Further Requirements written by Philip Larkin and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2013-01-03 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philip Larkin's Required Writing, a selection from his miscellaneous prose from 1953-82, was highly praised and enjoyed when it appeared in 1983. Further Requirements gathers together many other interviews, broadcasts, statements and reviews. Some of them date from the period after he had chosen the contents of Required Writing; others come from obscure publications, including some early pieces. This second edition of Further Requirements includes two more essays by Larkin: 'Operation Manuscript' and his Introduction to Earth Memories by Llewelyn Powys.