Philip Larkin: Poetry that Builds Bridges
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Edition
1st ed.
Publisher
ISBN
8126906065
Length
viii+392p., Notes; Bibliography; Index; 23cm.
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Philip Larkin (1922-1985) is today acclaimed as a British national cultural icon. Historically a “Movementeer,†Larkin followed the “Pleasure principle†to democratize poetry by forging a distinctive philistine aesthetic, by employing a defiantly demotic diction, and by building his poems around a structure of rational discourse. Philip Larkin: Poetry That Builds Bridges is a well-researched and immensely readable book. It is perhaps the only work ...
