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Collected Poems
Since its publication in 1988, Philip Larkin's Collected Poems has become essential reading on any poetry bookshelf. Preserving everything that he published in his lifetime, this new Collected Poems returns the reader to the book Larkin might have intended: it is, for the first time, Larkin's 'own' collected poems.
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Early Poems and Juvenilia
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.
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Philip Larkin
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.
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Una ragazza d'inverno
Sono gli anni del secondo conflitto mondiale; Katherine Lind è una ragazza straniera che ha trovato lavoro nella biblioteca di una piccola città della provincia inglese, diretta dall'insopportabile signor Anstey. Un giorno riceve una lettera: è di Robin Fennel, il suo vecchio amico di penna, una delle poche persone che conosce nel paese. Il pensiero di Katherine corre subito alla leggendaria estate dei suoi sedici anni, passata nella casa dei Fennel, e all'attrazione nata tra lei e Robin. Non si sono mai più sentiti da allora, ma lui - che è sotto le armi - le annuncia una visita. Cosa può essere rimasto in un gelido inverno di guerra di quel lontano, innocente amore adolescenziale? Il secondo romanzo di Philip Larkin è un intenso racconto che parla di guerra e di pace, di esilio e di vacanza, di inverni e di estati; è il 'racconto di un poeta' - ha scritto Joyce Carol Oates - 'che sa evocare, con poche nude immagini, un senso di spreco, disillusione e vuoto profondo degno del più desolato Beckett', una storia 'di grande sensibilità, meditativa, commovente, di proporzioni volutamente modeste che ricorda l'opera di Virginia Woolf'.
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Jill
Studente di umili origini ingenuo e inesperto, ma dalla mente brillante, John Kemp arriva a Oxford dal Lancashire nell'autunno del 1940, mentre sull'Inghilterra cadono le bombe tedesche. Nel college si trova a dividere la stanza con Christopher Warner, rampollo di un'agiata famiglia. Per rendersi interessante agli occhi del compagno, dal cui stile di vita dissoluto è respinto e affascinato al tempo stesso, Kemp si inventa una sorella immaginaria, Jill. Le cose si complicano quando si innamora di una ragazza vera, appartenente all'alta società, che porta lo stesso nome. Scritto tra il 1943 e il 1944 quando l'autore era studente a Oxford e pubblicato nel 1946, "Jill" è un romanzo delicatissimo e di grande potenza, che attraverso personaggi indimenticabili ci parla di differenze di classe, timidezza, perdita dell'innocenza, e della scoperta di sé e del proprio valore in un ambiente ostile. Un libro 'assolutamente contemporaneo, forse persino profetico' come lo ha definito Joyce Carol Oates.
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A Girl in Winter
A Girl in Winter is the moving and enigmatic story of Katherine LInd, a European woman in wartime England. The vicious winter weather has paralyzed the countryside; the emotions of Katherine are frozen as well, as fear and loneliness increase her sense of isolation. By splicing the story of Katherine's sunlit 16th summer in between the halves of a single winter day on which the suitor of her youth returns to her present life, Larkin illuminates the process by which we learn to decipher and accommodate the longings of the heart.
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A Girl in Winter
A Girl in Winter is the moving and enigmatic story of Katherine LInd, a European woman in wartime England. The vicious winter weather has paralyzed the countryside; the emotions of Katherine are frozen as well, as fear and loneliness increase her sense of isolation. By splicing the story of Katherine's sunlit 16th summer in between the halves of a single winter day on which the suitor of her youth returns to her present life, Larkin illuminates the process by which we learn to decipher and accommodate the longings of the heart.
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Het leven met een gat erin
gedichtenWhat will survive of us is love Wat overleven zal is onze liefde Vooral dankzij dit soort pakkende regels is Philip Larkin (1922-1985) de beroemdste Engelse dichter van de tweede helft van de vorige eeuw geworden. Tot de andere prettige eigenschappen van zijn poëzie horen de relatief eenvoudige taal en de onthoudbaarheid. Bij zijn leven verschenen van Larkins hand drie volwassen bundels, die een goed beeld geven van zijn tijd, het opkrabbelen na de Tweede Wereldoorlog, en natuurlijk de jaren zestig, toen er ineens veel meer mocht. Ook weerspiegelen ze de gedachten van iemand die in de clinch gaat met de grote existentiële problemen. Larkin was behoudend van aard, maar bleef niettemin voortdurend experimenteren. Zo ontwierp hij bijzondere rijmvormen, combineerde verschillende registers en bedacht nieuwe manieren van dichten over jazz en seks. De resultaten overgoot hij graag met een sausje van subtiele humor. In Nederland werd deze dichter nog weinig vertaald, maar nu is er dus een fikse bloemlezing met een representatieve keuze van vroeg tot laat. Daarmee bewijst deze bundel de ironie van een andere typische Larkinregel: Books are a load of crap. Oftewel: ‘Boeken? Mag ik effe braken?’
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Philip Larkin: Letters Home
The last outstanding unpublished facet of Larkin's writing life: his correspondence 'home' to his father, mother and sister. Letters Home helps 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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Finestre alte. Testo inglese a fronte
Dall'incontro fra sensibilità congeniali nasce questa traduzione della quarta raccolta poetica di Philip Larkin, pubblicata per la prima volta nel 1974. "Finestre alte" mette in scena il "carattere ordinario dell'esistenza" scrive Enrico Testa nella prefazione, attraverso "l'analisi del quotidiano e dei suoi minimi dettagli". In uno stile antiretorico si susseguono amare riflessioni sull'esistenza e ritratti d'ambiente allestiti con procedure narrative, motivi personali e accensioni liriche innescate da occasioni di confronto con la natura.
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Una chica en invierno
Precisa, elegante, concisa, 'Una chica en invierno' es la última de las grandes obras de Larkin que quedaba por publicar en castellano. Una historia de invierno y de verano, de guerra y de paz, de exilio y de hogar, y también una de sus piezas más sinceras, en la que se entrelazan huellas de su propia biografía. El autor nos sumerge magistralmente en la opresiva atmósfera del crudo invierno inglés en plena Segunda Guerra Mundial. Katherine es una joven refugiada que trabaja como bibliotecaria en una gris ciudad inglesa. Hastiada de su trabajo y de la vida en general, lo único que le hace mantener la esperanza es la perspectiva de un reencuentro con el que fue su primer amor. Así, en las horas previas a su cita, Katherine revivirá las idílicas vacaciones que supusieron para ella la pérdida de la inocencia y el paso a la edad adulta. Ahora Robin, el protagonista de aquel crucial verano, tan glorioso como mortificante, tan radiante como precozmente crepuscular, podría poner fin a su monótona vida y arrancarla para siempre de las garras de la frustración.Un pequeño clásico que no ha dejado nunca de seducir por su delicado uso del lenguaje y su descarnada belleza.
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The Complete Poems of Philip Larkin
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.
€ 31,50