Philip Larkin is widely regarded as one of the greatest English poets of the latter half of the twentieth century. His work frequently explores themes of loneliness, disappointment, and quiet despair, yet it is imbued with a dry wit and a sharp observation of everyday life. Larkin's poetry, characterized by its direct and unadorned language, eschews sentimentality to reveal the complexities of the human condition. His insights into social change and personal relationships continue to resonate with readers.
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.
Philip Larkin (1922 – 1985) remains the most popular poet in the British Isles, significantly ahead of Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney in public appreciation.
Herausgegeben und mit einem Nachwort von James Booth. Aus dem Englischen von Steffen Jacobs. Auf den ersten Blick geht alles seinen geregelten Gang hinter der abweisenden Fassade des Mädcheninternats von Willow Gables: Vertrauensschülerinnen sorgen dafür, dass niemand über die Stränge schlägt, und pünktlich um zehn Uhr abends werden die Lichter im Schlafsaal gelöscht. Doch insgeheim sinnt die abgeklärte Margaret Tattenham längst auf Möglichkeiten, den Einsatz für eine angeblich todsichere Pferdewette aufzubringen. Als sich dann auch noch eine Vertrauensschülerin in die athletische Mannschaftsführerin des Cricketteams verliebt, kommt Philip Larkins frivole Parodie auf die populären englischen Mädchenromane richtig in Fahrt ...
Since its publication in 1988, Philip Larkin's Collected Poems has become essential reading on any poetry bookshelf. This new edition returns to Larkin's own deliberate ordering of his poems, presenting, in their original sequence, his four published books: The North Ship, The Less Deceived, The Whitsun Weddings and High Windows. It also includes an appendix of poems that Larkin published in other places, from his juvenilia to his final years - some of which might have appeared in a late book, if he had lived. Preserving everything that he published in his lifetime, this new Collected Poems returns the reader to the book Larkin might have intended.
Thwaite has based the whole edition on the carefully preserved and dated notebooks and typescripts left by Larkin.
This story of Katherine Lind and Robin Fennel, of winter and summer, of war and peace, of exile and holidays.
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.