Philip Larkin: Letters Home

Larkin, Philip

ISBN 10: 0571335594 / ISBN 13: 9780571335596

Edité par Faber & Faber, 2018

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Almost as new. Spine, binding and covers all fine; contents very clean throughout and no inscription. Dustcover shows barely any wear. 612 pages. Heavy - will require additional postage outside UK. Heavy - will require additional postage outside UK.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Philip Larkin: Letters Home
• Éditeur: Faber & Faber
• Date de parution: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0571335594
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780571335596
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: 1st Edition.
• État de l'article: Used - Very Good
• État de la jaquette: Very Good
• Catalogues du vendeur:
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Synopsis

Letters Home gives access to the last major archive of Larkin's writing to remain unpublished: the letters to members of his family. These correspondences help tell the story of how Larkin came to be the writer and the man he was: to his father Sydney, a 'conservative anarchist' and admirer of Hitler, who died relatively early in Larkin's life; to his timid, depressive mother Eva, who by contrast lived long, and whose final years were shadowed by dementia; and to his sister Kitty, the sparse surviving fragment of whose correspondence with her brother gives an enigmatic glimpse of a complex and intimate relationship. In particular, it was the years during which he and his sister looked after their mother that shaped the writer we know so well: a number of poems written over this time are for her, and the mood of pain, shadow and despondency that characterises his later verse draws its strength from his experience of the long, lonely years of her senility. One surprising element in the volume, however, is the joie de vivre shown in the large number of witty and engaging drawings of himself and Eva, as 'Young Creature' and 'Old Creature', with which he enlivens his letters throughout the three decades of her widowhood.

This important edition, meticulously edited by James Booth is a key piece of scholarship that completes the portrait of this most cherished of English poets.

À propos de l'auteur

Philip Larkin, poet, novelist and librarian, was born in Coventry in 1922. He published four volumes of poetry - The North Ship (1945), The Less Deceived (1955), The Whitsun Weddings (1964) and High Windows (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, Jill (1946) and A Girl in Winter (1947), and his journalism is collected in two volumes, All What Jazz: A Record Diary and Required Writing: Miscellaneous Prose. He worked as librarian at the University of Hull from 1955 until his death in 1985.

In 2003, he was chosen as Britain's best-loved poet of the previous fifty years by the Poetry Book Society; in 2008, The Times named him Britain's greatest post-war writer; and in 2016, a memorial stone in his name was unveiled in Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey.