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9789004311060, titled "Philip Larkinâs Poetics: Theory and Practice of an English Post-war Poet" | Rodopi Bv Editions, December 4, 2015, cover price $98.00 | About this edition: This book offers a discussion of the poetics of the outstanding post-1945 British poet Philip Larkin, providing evidence that Larkins principles of writing poetry form a logically organized system.
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9780374126964 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, March 27, 2012, cover price $40.00
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9780374533663 | Reprint edition (Farrar Straus & Giroux, April 2, 2013), cover price $25.00
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9780230217089 | Palgrave Macmillan, June 5, 2012, cover price $80.00
Product Description: When Philip Larkin's "letters" were published in 1992, the poet's enemies seized on the new disclosures with a frenzy unseen since the McCarthy era. What had previously been regarded only as potential inclination hinted at in his poemsâmisogyny and xenophobia in particularâwere now indisputable facts, and since then Larkin's reputation as a poet has been tarnished by his image as a human being...read more
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9780720611472 | Peter Owen Ltd, October 30, 2005, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: He formed a spectrum of impressions which invariably interferes with any reading of his verse.
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9780720613254 | Peter Owen Ltd, September 15, 2009, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: When Philip Larkin's "letters" were published in 1992, the poet's enemies seized on the new disclosures with a frenzy unseen since the McCarthy era.
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9781403937063 | Palgrave Macmillan, January 8, 2008, cover price $115.00
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9781904634393 | Enitharmon Pr, December 15, 2007, cover price $39.95
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9780374529208 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, April 1, 2004, cover price $17.00 | About this edition: A new collection of Phillip Larkin's poetry combines all of his published collections--North Ship, The Less Deceived, The Whitsun Weddings, and High Windows--with his uncollected poems from 1940-1984.
Product Description: Controversy rages around Larkin's character and life. This book takes a fresh look at his poems through close analysis, discussion of Larkin's major concerns and demonstrating how to approach these enigmatic works. It provides background information including an account of his life, discussion of cultural context and major critical view...read more
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9781403992673 | Palgrave Macmillan, May 1, 2007, cover price $95.00 | About this edition: Controversy rages around Larkin's character and life.
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9781403992697 | Palgrave Macmillan, May 1, 2007, cover price $29.99 | About this edition: Controversy rages around Larkin's character and life.
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9788426416094 | Italian edition edition (Lumen Editorial, April 30, 2007), cover price $20.95
Product Description: The Philip Larkin I Knew traces the author’s close friendship with the poet and stretches over his 30 year tenure of office as librarian of the University of Hull, taking in his literary achievements from The Less Deceived (1955), through The Whitsun Weddings (1964), to High Windows (1974)...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780719062759 | Manchester Univ Pr, December 1, 2002, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: The Philip Larkin I Knew traces the author’s close friendship with the poet and stretches over his 30 year tenure of office as librarian of the University of Hull, taking in his literary achievements from The Less Deceived (1955), through The Whitsun Weddings (1964), to High Windows (1974).
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9780719062766 | Manchester Univ Pr, January 18, 2003, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: The Philip Larkin I Knew traces the author’s close friendship with the poet and stretches over his 30 year tenure of office as librarian of the University of Hull, taking in his literary achievements from The Less Deceived (1955), through The Whitsun Weddings (1964), to High Windows (1974).
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9780333761076 | Palgrave Macmillan, June 1, 2000, cover price $170.00 | also contains Frederick: A Story of Boundless Hope, Frederick: A Story of Boundless Hope
9780312226695 | Palgrave Macmillan, December 10, 1999, cover price $170.00
Seven hundred of the great poet's letters are collected here offering a moving, instructive portrait of Larken, from his early correspondence with school friends to his last year of life, 1985, when he died at the age of sixty-three.
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9780374258290, titled "Selected Letters of Philip Larkin 1940-1985" | Reprint edition (Farrar Straus & Giroux, December 1, 1993), cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Spanning forty-five years in the poet's life and encompassing more than seven hundred letters, this collection of Larkin's writings includes his correspondence with Kingsley Amis, Barbara Pym, Robert Conquest, his editors, and many others
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9780571170487 | Faber & Faber, December 1, 1999, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Seven hundred of the great poet's letters are collected here offering a moving, instructive portrait of Larken, from his early correspondence with school friends to his last year of life, 1985, when he died at the age of sixty-three.
Product Description: The essays in this volume abandon the tired clichés of an older critical consensus and offer a lively, provocative response to such issues as sexual politics, national identity and postcolonialism in the work of Philip Larkin, a writer widely regarded as the best Poet Laureate England never had...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780312173487 | Palgrave Macmillan, September 1, 1997, cover price $59.95 | About this edition: Since his death in 1985, Philip Larkin's reputation as a writer has undergone a profound and dramatic transformation.
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9780312173494 | Palgrave Macmillan, September 15, 1997, cover price $51.95 | About this edition: The essays in this volume abandon the tired clichés of an older critical consensus and offer a lively, provocative response to such issues as sexual politics, national identity and postcolonialism in the work of Philip Larkin, a writer widely regarded as the best Poet Laureate England never had.
Product Description: This detailed study of Larkin's poetry, the first to take account of recent biographical and archival material, offers new insights into Larkin's development as a poet and a fresh assessment of his achievement. Focusing on Larkin's separately published volumes within the framework of the Collected Poems, this analysis of Larkin's practice and controversial status presents a poet more fundamentally challenging than often supposed...read more
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9780312125455 | Palgrave Macmillan, September 1, 1995, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: This detailed study of Larkin's poetry, the first to take account of recent biographical and archival material, offers new insights into Larkin's development as a poet and a fresh assessment of his achievement.
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9780312174521 | Palgrave Macmillan, July 15, 1997, cover price $52.00 | About this edition: This detailed study of Larkin's poetry, the first to take account of recent biographical and archival material, offers new insights into Larkin's development as a poet and a fresh assessment of his achievement.
Product Description: "Mr. Motion has generously enlarged our understanding of . . . this impressive writer's life. He is a clear, fluent writer; evocative, acute, sympathetic, but absolutely unblinking about the notorious weaknesses and cruelties (as well as the immense wit and hard work) of his subject...read more
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9780374231682, titled "Philip Larkin: A Writer's Life" | Farrar Straus & Giroux, July 1, 1993, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Examines the life and work of the popular, yet reclusive, twentieth century English poet
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9780374524074, titled "Philip Larkin: A Writer's Life" | Noonday Pr, August 1, 1994, cover price $13.00 | About this edition: "Mr.
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9780374522759 | Reprint edition (Noonday Pr, October 1, 1993), cover price $18.00 | About this edition: Provides a definitive collection of many previously published poems, as well as never-before-published works, by the distinguished British poet.
Product Description: This study of Philip Larkin challenges recent attempts to interpret Larkin's poems by decoding their supposed religious, political or sexual subtexts. Booth argues that historical and social circumstances are, as Larkin himself believed, the context not the substance of his work...read more
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9780312083601 | Palgrave Macmillan, June 1, 1992, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: This study of Philip Larkin challenges recent attempts to interpret Larkin's poems by decoding their supposed religious, political or sexual subtexts.
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