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Philip Larkin: Letters Home

Af: Philip Larkin Engelsk Paperback

Philip Larkin: Letters Home

Af: Philip Larkin Engelsk Paperback
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Letters Home gives access to the last major archive of Larkin’s writing to remain unpublished: the letters to members of his family.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.

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Letters Home gives access to the last major archive of Larkin’s writing to remain unpublished: the letters to members of his family.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.

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 688
ISBN-13: 9780571335602
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 0571335608
Kategori: Dagbøger, breve og noter
Udg. Dato: 3 nov 2022
Længde: 44mm
Bredde: 235mm
Højde: 152mm
Forlag: Faber & Faber
Oplagsdato: 3 nov 2022
Forfatter(e): Philip Larkin
Forfatter(e) Philip Larkin

Kategori Dagbøger, breve og noter

ISBN-13 9780571335602

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 688

Udgave

Længde 44mm

Bredde 235mm

Højde 152mm

Udg. Dato 3 nov 2022

Oplagsdato 3 nov 2022

Forlag Faber & Faber

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