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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.

Zweisprachige Ausgabe, Übersetung von Ulrich Horstmann. Horstmann (*1949), Kleist-Preisträger 1988, hat auch eine Gedichtauswahl des Larkin-Gegenspielers Ted Hughes und Robert Burtons Anatomy of Melancholy übersetzt. Philip Larkin (1922–1985) verbrachte seine produktivsten Jahre in Nordengland, wo er hinter der Fassade des randständigen Einzelgängers (Hermit of Hull) gleich doppelt reüssierte: als umtriebiger Direktor der Universitätsbibliothek sowie als bedächtig arbeitender Literat, der nach seinem Fehlstart als Romancier mit ganzen drei in Zehnjahresabständen veröffentlichten Gedichtbänden zur nationalen Ikone aufrückte.

The North Ship, Philip Larkin's earliest volume of verse, was first published in August 1945 and reissued in 1966 by Faber.

This entirely new edition brings together all of Philip Larkin's poems. In addition to those in Collected Poems (1988), and in the Early Poems and Juvenilia (2005), some unpublished pieces from Larkin's typescripts and workbooks are included, as well as verse (by turns scurrilous, satirical, affectionate, and sentimental) tucked away in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.For 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.

For the first time, Faber publish a selection from the poetry of Philip Larkin. how many poets make us laugh - or, in that curious phrase, laugh out loud (as if there's another way of doing it)? Larkin, often, is more than memorable: he is instantly unforgettable.' - Martin Amis

Philip Larkin (1922 – 1985) remains the most popular poet in the British Isles, significantly ahead of Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney in public appreciation.

The eye can hardly pick them out. From the cold shade they shelter in, Till wind distresses tail and mane; Then one crops grass, and moves about - The other seeming to look on - And stands anonymous again.

Philip Larkin met Monica Jones at University College Leicester in autumn 1946, when they were both twenty-four; he was the newly-appointed assistant librarian and she was an English lecturer. This title consists of nearly two thousand letters, which chronicle various aspects of Larkin's life and the convolutions of their relationship.

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