{"product_id":"the-complete-poems-of-philip-larkin-philip-larkin","title":"The Complete Poems of Philip Larkin (Philip Larkin)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis entirely new edition brings together all of Philip Larkin's poems.  In addition to those in \u003ci\u003eCollected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e (1988), and in the \u003ci\u003eEarly  Poems and Juvenilia\u003c\/i\u003e (2005), some unpublished pieces from Larkin's  typescripts and workbooks are included, as well as verse (by turns  scurrilous, satirical, affectionate, and sentimental) tucked away in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 from  Larkin's typescripts and the early printings are recorded.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor the first time, the 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. 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. Larkin played down his literariness, but his poetry  enrichingly alludes to and echoes the writings of many others; Archie  Burnett's commentary establishes him as a more complex and more literary  poet than many readers have suspected.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAutorenportrait\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003ePhilip Larkin, poet, novelist and librarian, was born in Coventry in 1922. He published four volumes of poetry - \u003ci\u003eThe North Ship\u003c\/i\u003e (1945), \u003ci\u003eThe Less Deceived\u003c\/i\u003e (1955), \u003ci\u003eThe Whitsun Weddings\u003c\/i\u003e (1964) and \u003ci\u003eHigh Windows \u003c\/i\u003e(1974) - for which he received innumerable honours including the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry and the WH Smith Award. He also wrote two novels, \u003ci\u003eJill \u003c\/i\u003e(1946) and \u003ci\u003eA Girl in Winter \u003c\/i\u003e(1947), and his journalism is collected in two volumes, \u003ci\u003eAll What Jazz: A Record Diary\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eRequired Writing: Miscellaneous Pieces \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e1955-1982\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e.\u003c\/i\u003e He worked as librarian at the University of Hull from 1955 until his death in 1985.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 2003, he was chosen as Britain's best-loved poet of the previous fifty years by the Poetry Book Society; in 2008, \u003ci\u003eThe Times \u003c\/i\u003enamed him Britain's greatest post-war writer; and in 2016, a memorial stone in his name was unveiled in Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eWeitere Angaben\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBuch (Paperback), Englisch, 768 Seiten\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":66127703179613,"sku":"K045745495","price":27.0,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0911\/8915\/0045\/files\/4574549500001A.jpg?v=1791229178","url":"https:\/\/weltbild.ch\/products\/the-complete-poems-of-philip-larkin-philip-larkin","provider":"Weltbild.ch Bücher \u0026 Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}