Philip Larkin

ISBN-13: 9780333604847 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 265 str.

Stephen Regan

Opis

Since his death in 1985, Philip Larkin's reputation as a writer has undergone a profound and dramatic transformation. With the publication of a candid biography, a controversial collection of letters and a comprehensive edition of the poems, the abiding interests and concerns of Larkin criticism have been radically altered. At the same time, the impact of literary theory has brought a new set of critical perspectives and approaches to bear on the poetry. The essays in this volume abandon the tired cliches of an older critical consensus and offer a lively, provocative response to such issues as sexual politics, national identity and post-colonialism in the work of a writer widely regarded as the best Poet Laureate Britain never had.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements.- General Editors' Preface.- Introduction; Stephen Regan.- The Main of Light; Seamus Heaney Philip.- Larkin and Symbolism; Andrew Motion Philip Larkin: After Symbolism; Barbara Everett Philip Larkin: The Metonymic Muse; David Lodge Reading 'Deceptions': A Dramatic Conversation; Graham Holderness.- 'Get Out As Early As You Can': Larkin's Sexual Politics; Steve Clark.- Difficulties with Girls; Janice Rossen.- Into the Heart of Englishness; Tom Paulin.- Margins of Tolerance: Responses to Post-war Decline; Stan Smith Philip Larkin: Lyricism, Englishness and Postcoloniality; James Booth Larkin's Identities; Andrew Swarbrick.- Alas! Deceived; Alan Bennett.- Further Reading.- Notes on Contributors.- Index.